News Columnists

Steve Lopez

Steve Lopez

The emergency room bill is enough to make you sick - November 22, 2009 - Are you ready to play "How much was that visit to the ER?"

George Skelton

George Skelton

California voters want a no-pork diet - November 19, 2009 - No matter how clever and careful the writer, on occasion a work should be ripped up and retooled. That also goes for writers of...

Sandy Banks

Sandy Banks

An underground renaissance in Inglewood - November 21, 2009 - I was tired of staring at that blank space on my hallway wall. For years, I'd been searching for just the right artistic statement for the...

Hector Tobar

Hector Tobar

Death and life in downtown L.A. - November 17, 2009 - On the day last month that Tim Cowell moved into his new loft in an old downtown office building, a friend warned him about the jumpers.

James Rainey

James Rainey

KCRW manager succeeded by being true to herself - November 20, 2009 - My acquaintance with Ruth Seymour over the years had been fleeting. But inevitably when I saw the KCRW radio general manager, it would...

Business Columnists

Michael Hiltzik

Michael Hiltzik

State's school funding process is failing - November 19, 2009 - Anyone who has spent time in or around government, from the deeply embedded bureaucrat to the young policy wonk, knows that there are...

David Lazarus

David Lazarus

Collect call from a pay phone could cost a small fortune - November 22, 2009 - In today's wireless world, it's hard to imagine that anyone would ever need to use a pay phone or call somebody collect. Just try asking...

Kathy M. Kristof

Kathy M. Kristof

Lean years require a shift in how you give to charity - November 22, 2009 - Are you detecting a tone of desperation in the charitable appeals you're receiving this holiday season?

Dan Neil

Dan Neil

Getting a charge out of Nissan's Leaf - November 20, 2009 - This thought came to me as I was piloting the Nissan Leaf electric vehicle prototype around Dodger Stadium last Friday: When gasoline-...

Tom Petruno

Tom Petruno

In a low-rate world, here's how savers can help themselves - November 21, 2009 - You'd think that $10 trillion would merit a little more respect.

Liz Pulliam Weston

Liz Pulliam Weston

Planning a family? How to prepare financially - November 22, 2009 - Dear Liz: My wife and I are planning to have a child in the next couple of years, and I realize that I have no idea how to go about...

Sports Columnists

Chris Erskine

Chris Erskine

Thanksgiving at our little Plymouth Rock - November 21, 2009 - My wife, Posh, is part Pilgrim. She's got all these funny ideas about religion and sex and is even pretty puritanical when it comes to...

Bill Plaschke

Bill Plaschke

The city could be UCLA's for the taking - November 22, 2009 - The sweat still dripping, the stains still fresh, Rahim Moore ran from the Rose Bowl's grassy stage to a sideline stage.

T.J. Simers

T.J. Simers

New Cardinal rule: Stanford has better players than USC - November 14, 2009 - Here's the really depressing news for Trojans fans in a shocking revelation from Pete Carroll after the athletes from Stanford...

Bill Dwyre

Bill Dwyre

Manny Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto is a bout that gets boxing off the ropes - November 14, 2009 - From Las Vegas -- Seldom has there been better proof that there is no accounting for taste.

Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott

Excuses are the last thing the Kings need right now - November 22, 2009 - It was an early start. They've played more games than most teams and traveled twice to the East Coast. Ryan Smyth and Rob Scuderi are...

Jerry Crowe

Jerry Crowe

Boxing referee Gwen Adair picks her battles, fights the good fight - November 22, 2009 - Gwen Adair never set out to be a pioneer.

Meghan Daum

Meghan Daum

Levi Johnston: He's hot, he's cute, he's playing hardball - November 19, 2009 - I'm not proud of this, but I sort of love Levi Johnston. I know he's an opportunistic buffoon. I know he's a grammatically challenged,...

Opinion Columnists

Jonah Goldberg

Jonah Goldberg

It's no way to fight a war on terror - November 17, 2009 - I get where President Obama and Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. are coming from. They think that if we change our way of life, the...

Gregory Rodriguez

Gregory Rodriguez

The American way: Smile if you're insecure - November 16, 2009 - Six years ago, during a trip to the Middle East, I asked an Israeli playwright what his country's cinematic equivalent was to the American...

Doyle McManus

Doyle McManus

Legislating healthcare the old-fashioned way - November 22, 2009 - This weekend, as the Senate tackles the healthcare bill that may be its most important domestic legislation in a generation, you might...

Tim Rutten

Tim Rutten

Senate inquiry into Ft. Hood misplaced - November 21, 2009 - Sen. Joe Lieberman insists on pushing ahead with a Senate inquiry into the mass murder at Ft. Hood, despite White House...