Patrice Apodaca
columnist
Patrice Apodaca is a former Los Angeles Times staff writer and is coauthor of “A Boy Named Courage: A Surgeon’s Memoir of Apartheid.” She lives in Newport Beach.
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The majority of Americans believe there there is extraterrestrial life. Aliens might marvel at earth’s natural beauty but wonder why we are not protecting it.
Consumers are experiencing sticker shock at every turn, leading columnist Patrice Apodaca wondering how holiday sales will shake out by the end of this year, in Orange County and beyond.
Solutions are needed but conflicting interests complicate legislation.
A community open house will be held Nov. 15, while the new, $1.2-billion, all-electric healthcare center at UC Irvine will begin serving patients Dec. 10.
Assaults on the media and dwindling revenue add up to a democracy that is in peril, writes columnist Patrice Apodaca.
Prestigious Pasadena institution began conducting studies in Newport Harbor 95 years ago in a building donated by a wealthy benefactor.
Education officials are tasked with deciding how to implement changes required by the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in the Mahmoud v. Taylor case.
Columnist Patrice Apodaca examines the latest research on how immigration raids impact communities — and the youngest population — children.
Columnist Patrice Apodaca describes the lack of compassion plaguing our politics and society in the wake of political upheaval in the U.S.
Columnist Patrice Apodaca talks to a pediatric infectious diseases expert about why measles outbreaks among children are a result of vaccine hesitancy and denial growing across the nation.