Biography  

Steve Lopez


Recent Columns:
October 12, 2008
Malcolm Robertson was hoping to coax the 8-ball into the side pocket in the billiards room of Clubhouse Three at Laguna Woods Village. But at 82, with a small but worrisome portion of his retirement funds shriveling up in the stock market, he had trouble focusing.

October 8, 2008
I had just finished talking to the mayor about the city's annoying billboards -- asking if he intends to do anything about them -- when I turned to a couple of his aides with a question:

October 5, 2008
Thank you, L.A. City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo, for being such a pal to the billboard industry.

October 1, 2008
My trip to Sarah Palin country seems to have worked quite a few readers into a lather.

September 28, 2008
Jimmy Wheeler, 84, is out on bail. The charge? Attempting to kill his wife.

September 24, 2008
There's nothing unusual about the kind of work Bonny Sosa did in Alaska. She, like hundreds of people in Southern California and every region in the country, saw a problem in her community and tried to fix it.

September 23, 2008
I almost ran into a moose on the way to Sarah Palin's hometown.

September 21, 2008
Yes, Nome.

September 17, 2008
Dorothy Green was trying to be polite, but the founder of Heal the Bay made it quite clear that she wasn't terribly interested in talking about the things I had come to discuss in her Westwood home.

September 16, 2008
He limped away from the deadly 2005 train wreck in Glendale that killed 11 people.