Opinion: Chat with Jim Newton: Wednesday, April 25 at 2 p.m.

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Jim Newton will be chatting live Wednesday, April 25, at 2 p.m. Newton was recently named editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times, with responsibility for the newspaper’s editorial, Op-Ed, letters and Sunday Opinion sections.

A California native, Newton has spent much of his life covering and writing about the politics, government, and legal affairs of Los Angeles and the state. He joined The Times in 1989 and covered federal law enforcement and the Los Angeles Police Department from 1992 through 1997, a period that included the 1992 riots, the federal trial of the LAPD officers who beat Rodney King, and the murder trial of O.J. Simpson. He also was the paper’s lead reporter responsible for the mayoral administration of Richard J. Riordan during Riordan’s second term. In 2001, he was named California government and politics editor, in charge of Los Angeles and Sacramento government coverage. Most recently, he was the paper’s city-county bureau chief.

Now’s your chance to give Newton a piece of your mind. Go to chat.latimes.com for free registration, then follow the link to ‘Opinion Chat.’ If you can’t make it to the chat, email us at chat@latimes.com or leave a message in the comments, and we’ll pass your question along to Newton.

(If you have any problems with login or chat, please let us know at chat@latimes.com.)