Steve Lopez is a California native who has been an L.A. Times columnist since 2001. He has won more than a dozen national journalism awards for his reporting and column writing at seven newspapers and four news magazines, and is a four-time Pulitzer finalist for commentary – in 2012, for his columns on elder care; in 2016, for his columns on income inequality in California; in 2018, for his columns on housing and homelessness; and in 2020, for purposeful pieces about rising homelessness in Los Angeles, which amplified calls for government action to deal with a long-visible public crisis. He is the author of three novels, two collections of columns and a non-fiction work called “The Soloist,” which was a Los Angeles Times and New York Times best-seller, winner of the PEN USA Literary Award for Non-Fiction, and the subject of a Dream Works movie by the same name. Lopez’s television reporting for public station KCET has won three local news Emmys, three Golden Mike awards and a share of the Columbia University DuPont Award.
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‘It always felt to me like I’d fallen off a fire escape,” says Yale graduate Shawn Pleasants, “and once you get on the ground, the ladder is 12 feet up in the air.’
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Cuando Bobby Sasson se mudó, pensó que podría volver rápidamente a casa con su marido y sus tres hijos. Eso no sucedió.
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When Bobby Sasson moved out, she thought she’d be able to return home to her husband and three children quickly. That didn’t work out.
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Nunca se debería haber permitido que un parque público en las afueras del centro de Los Ángeles se convirtiera en un campamento de indigentes, o en un punto de inflamación política.
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A public park on the edge of downtown Los Angeles never should have been allowed to become a homeless encampment — or a political flashpoint.
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Two bills in the state Legislature would authorize local officials to begin automated speed enforcement, with the aim of reducing deadly crashes.
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There have been fewer cars on streets and highways this last year, but more reckless driving and speeding. Two grieving families know the grim statistics all too well.
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Building a plant to remove the salt from seawater in Huntington Beach is not just bad for the environment; it’s bad for California ratepayers.
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Marion Lewin and her twin brother, Steven Hess, were sent to the Nazi camps as young children and knew little of their previous life in Amsterdam — until now.
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Union Rescue Mission director Andy Bales is indefatigable, despite major health challenges.