News Columnists
Steve Lopez
High fashion in the medicinal high business - November 18, 2009 - The physician was wearing high heels, a tight-fitting white lab coat and lots of gold jewelry, which is not quite what you expect to see...
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George Skelton
California voters want a no-pork diet - November 19, 2009 - No matter how clever and careful the writer, on occasion a work should be ripped up and retooled. That also goes for writers of...
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Sandy Banks
An underground renaissance in Inglewood - November 21, 2009 - I was tired of staring at that blank space on my hallway wall. For years, I'd been searching for just the right artistic statement for the...
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Hector Tobar
Death and life in downtown L.A. - November 17, 2009 - On the day last month that Tim Cowell moved into his new loft in an old downtown office building, a friend warned him about the jumpers.
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James Rainey
KCRW manager succeeded by being true to herself - November 20, 2009 - My acquaintance with Ruth Seymour over the years had been fleeting. But inevitably when I saw the KCRW radio general manager, it would...
Business Columnists
Michael Hiltzik
State's school funding process is failing - November 19, 2009 - Anyone who has spent time in or around government, from the deeply embedded bureaucrat to the young policy wonk, knows that there are...
David Lazarus
The danger of marketing prescription drugs online - November 18, 2009 - Google, Yahoo and the pharmaceutical industry are pushing to change how prescription drugs are hawked online. That's not a bad thing...
Kathy M. Kristof
Tax planning during holidays can generate gifts April 15 - November 15, 2009 - Taxes are probably the last thing you want to think about during the holiday season. But if you do, you may be able to save yourself...
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Dan Neil
Getting a charge out of Nissan's Leaf - November 20, 2009 - This thought came to me as I was piloting the Nissan Leaf electric vehicle prototype around Dodger Stadium last Friday: When gasoline-...
Tom Petruno
In a low-rate world, here's how savers can help themselves - November 21, 2009 - You'd think that $10 trillion would merit a little more respect.
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Liz Pulliam Weston
Prepaying mortgage may not make financial sense - November 15, 2009 - Dear Liz: We refinanced our house in January for a 30-year fixed rate of 4.625%. We are paying about $513 a month extra toward...
Sports Columnists
Chris Erskine
Thanksgiving at our little Plymouth Rock - November 21, 2009 - My wife, Posh, is part Pilgrim. She's got all these funny ideas about religion and sex and is even pretty puritanical when it comes to...
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Bill Plaschke
Lakers' Gasol proves his worth, even if fans don't notice - November 20, 2009 - The World's Tallest Actor With Bed Hair And Braces returned to his day job Thursday, back to the Lakers and the season's most pressing...
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T.J. Simers
New Cardinal rule: Stanford has better players than USC - November 14, 2009 - Here's the really depressing news for Trojans fans in a shocking revelation from Pete Carroll after the athletes from Stanford...
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Bill Dwyre
Manny Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto is a bout that gets boxing off the ropes - November 14, 2009 - From Las Vegas -- Seldom has there been better proof that there is no accounting for taste.
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Helene Elliott
Ducks make a little point in overtime win against Tampa Bay - November 20, 2009 - Scouts for more than a dozen NHL teams sat elbow to elbow in the press box of the Honda Center on Thursday, a rare scene before winter...
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Jerry Crowe
Pau Gasol's return should help Lakers soar - November 20, 2009 - As amusing as it was seeing Pau Gasol on "CSI: Miami," it was better seeing him back on the court Thursday night. . . .
Meghan Daum
Levi Johnston: He's hot, he's cute, he's playing hardball - November 19, 2009 - I'm not proud of this, but I sort of love Levi Johnston. I know he's an opportunistic buffoon. I know he's a grammatically challenged,...
Opinion Columnists
Jonah Goldberg
It's no way to fight a war on terror - November 17, 2009 - I get where President Obama and Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. are coming from. They think that if we change our way of life, the...
Gregory Rodriguez
The American way: Smile if you're insecure - November 16, 2009 - Six years ago, during a trip to the Middle East, I asked an Israeli playwright what his country's cinematic equivalent was to the American...
Doyle McManus
Obama must rethink rethinking Afghanistan - November 15, 2009 - Barack Obama is in danger of giving deliberation a bad name.
Tim Rutten
Senate inquiry into Ft. Hood misplaced - November 21, 2009 - Sen. Joe Lieberman insists on pushing ahead with a Senate inquiry into the mass murder at Ft. Hood, despite White House...
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