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Sandy Banks

Troubled youths deserve more effective discipline than suspension - May 17, 2013 - The limits on student suspensions approved by the Los Angeles Unified school board this week may burnish the district's progressive...

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Steve Lopez

Overlooked by politicians, low-wage workers barely scrape by - May 21, 2013 - Last week, I visited a South Los Angeles woman whose story should embarrass us. It's a story that's not uncommon, and deserves the full...

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George Skelton

The bottom line: It's time to restore dental care for the poor - May 22, 2013 - SACRAMENTO — State Capitol politicians may have an extra $3.2 billion to play with. Or they may not.

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Business Columnists

Michael Hiltzik

Why the medical device tax needs to stay - May 21, 2013 - The chief drawback of a law as complex as the Affordable Care Act, the health insurance reform measure passed in 2010, is that it provides...

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David Lazarus

If this health plan is 'socialism,' we need more of it - May 23, 2013 - So this is what socialism looks like: Private companies competing for people's business in an open marketplace.

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Liz Weston

Split accounts when you and spouse split up - May 24, 2013 - Dear Liz: I just finished paying off my last credit card and checked my credit report as I am now separated from my wife....

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Features Columnists

Chris Erskine

Shannon Farar-Griefer hears the call of the wild Badwater race - May 24, 2013 - Ultramarathons are to running what the Marquis de Sade was to romance. Not sure I support such extremism. When one of the sport's stars, a...

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Sports Columnists

Bill Plaschke

Don Mattingly shows fire, but his flame is flickering with Dodgers - May 24, 2013 - Meet Donnie Dark.

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T.J. Simers

Dodgers' bosses get points for patience - May 23, 2013 - I don't know Mark Walter, the Guggenheim guy who runs the Dodgers. We had one phone conversation, and I'd rather talk...

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Bill Dwyre

Parnelli Jones returns to Indianapolis 500 to commemorate 1963 win - May 24, 2013 - For a while, when the Indianapolis 500 was as iconically American as stars and stripes and apple pie, its rock star was a California guy...

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Helene Elliott

Matt Greene is back and the Kings are more than happy to have him - May 24, 2013 - Matt Greene's return has increased the Kings' physicality and lifted their collective mood, and there's no saying which is more vital to a...

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Opinion Columnists

Meghan Daum

Daum: The gift of a great dog - May 16, 2013 - We got another dog right away. That wasn't the plan. But back in March, less than two weeks after Rex died and when I still had faint...

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Jonah Goldberg

Goldberg: Obama's 'idiot' defense - May 21, 2013 - Although there's still a great deal to be learned about the scandals and controversies swirling around the White House like so many...

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Doyle McManus

McManus: Obama's IRS choice - May 22, 2013 - Message to the president: Resistance is futile.

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Patt Morrison

Jonathan Fielding, the public's MD - May 15, 2013 - If you've got your health, the cliche goes, you've got just about everything. If you've got public health duties, you're responsible for...

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Jim Newton

Newton: Where Greuel went wrong - May 22, 2013 - Smart and capable, City Controller Wendy Greuel has been a high-profile public servant who believes in Los Angeles and has devoted much of...

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Gregory Rodriguez

Rodriguez: Reform for people or for politics? - February 18, 2013 - In 2006, the last time Congress took a serious look at comprehensive immigration reform, hundreds of thousands of immigrants, legal and...

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