News Columnists

Steve Lopez

Steve Lopez

An ex-Marine can run for us - March 21, 2010 - If you got up too late Sunday morning to run the Los Angeles Marathon, or if you're one of the many who couldn't jog two blocks without...

George Skelton

George Skelton

Whitman's conservative core - March 22, 2010 - Meg Whitman's Republican rival calls her a liberal. He's not even close.

Sandy Banks

Sandy Banks

The danger from within - March 22, 2010 - It has been six months since Mitrice Richardson...

Hector Tobar

Hector Tobar

The still-beating heart of L.A. history - March 19, 2010 - To many an outsider, Los Angeles is a stage set. It's a city constantly pretending to be something it's not.

James Rainey

James Rainey

An e-model for journalism in Seattle - March 20, 2010 - When a bright young reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer named Monica Guzman mentioned a couple of years ago that she planned to...

Business Columnists

Michael Hiltzik

Michael Hiltzik

Here we go again: Candidates pledge to search for 'waste, fraud and abuse' - March 21, 2010 - Meg Whitman will "root out fraud" and "cut wasteful spending." Carly Fiorina wants to eliminate "the billions of dollars of waste and...

David Lazarus

David Lazarus

L.A. mass transit agencies make only a token effort to get people onboard - March 23, 2010 - Los Angeles marked Transportation Freedom Day last week. What's that? It's the day when the typical median-income family has earned enough...

Kathy M. Kristof

Kathy M. Kristof

Banking laws leave business customers vulnerable to Internet fraud - March 21, 2010 - Many tax advisors tell their self-employed clients -- including those who are "consulting" while looking for work -- to open separate...

Tom Petruno

Tom Petruno

If the stock market's up, it must be rigged...right? - March 20, 2010 - Where was the stock market's Plunge Protection Team -- or at least, the Dip Protection Team -- when we needed them on Friday?

Liz Pulliam Weston

Liz Pulliam Weston

Check for best fit as credit card issuers squeeze rewards programs - March 21, 2010 - Dear Liz: Could you please write about the way credit card companies are trashing their frequent flier programs? I have...

Sports Columnists

Chris Erskine

Chris Erskine

Making sense of March Madness - March 17, 2010 - Beware the Ides of March Madness, for there is madness upon the land at anytime, though never more than now.

Bill Plaschke

Bill Plaschke

For Canada, maple relief - March 1, 2010 - O Canada, did it ever fill the arena, everyone singing, players with their thick arms draped around one another, fans weeping into their...

T.J. Simers

T.J. Simers

He's following up on the Lakers and Coach Phil Jackson - March 22, 2010 - I'm worried about Phil Jackson, so I will be joining the Lakers for this five-game trip beginning Wednesday in San Antonio.

Bill Dwyre

Bill Dwyre

Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Shane Mosley headlines buffet of spring bouts - March 22, 2010 - The wacky world of boxing keeps right on truckin' the next several months. It's a treadmill without an off switch.

Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott

Skull bashing? C'mon, use your head - March 22, 2010 - Memo to: NHL players.

Jerry Crowe

Jerry Crowe

Sirr Parker's life story, now in its second act, continues to inspire - March 21, 2010 - The story of Sirr Parker's childhood was so compelling that Hollywood turned it into a Showtime movie.

Meghan Daum

Meghan Daum

Rielle's manifest destiny - March 18, 2010 - Rielle Hunter's nearly 10,000-word GQ interview plus cringe-

Opinion Columnists

Jonah Goldberg

Jonah Goldberg

The reality of Obamacare - March 23, 2010 - First: Congratulations to President Obama and the Democratic leadership. You won dirty against bipartisan opposition from both Congress...

Gregory Rodriguez

Gregory Rodriguez

Michelle Obama's 'news-free zone' - March 22, 2010 - When Michelle Obama told Mike Huckabee a few weeks ago in an interview on Fox News Channel that her home was a "news-free zone," she...

Doyle McManus

Doyle McManus

What if Iran gets the bomb? - March 21, 2010 - 'It is not this calendar year" that the world will face a nuclear-capable Iran, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus told a Senate committee last...

Tim Rutten

Tim Rutten

A blind eye to children's suffering - March 20, 2010 - When it comes to local government, we too often shrug over things that ought to enrage us.

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