News Columnists

Steve Lopez

Steve Lopez

Growing multitudes need a helping hand - November 24, 2009 - When the doors open at Loaves and Fishes in Van Nuys these days, director Barbara Ausburn sees a big change in the kind of people asking...

George Skelton

George Skelton

California budget's going to be dreadful - November 22, 2009 - The Capitol's budget oracle projects $20.7 billion in new red ink for the next 19 months. Here's my projection: More punting, "kicking the...

Sandy Banks

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...

Hector Tobar

Hector Tobar

From east to west, steel rails pull L.A. together - November 24, 2009 - You may not feel it yet, but one day you will.

James Rainey

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

Michael Hiltzik

The world still can learn from Keynesian economics - November 23, 2009 - Great crises have a way of reminding us that acting as though we know perfectly well what the future holds almost always leads to...

David Lazarus

David Lazarus

Collect call from a pay phone could cost a small fortune - November 22, 2009 - In today's wireless world, it's hard to imagine that anyone would ever need to use a pay phone or call somebody collect. Just try asking...

Kathy M. Kristof

Kathy M. Kristof

Lean years require a shift in how you give to charity - November 22, 2009 - Are you detecting a tone of desperation in the charitable appeals you're receiving this holiday season?

Dan Neil

Dan Neil

National Geographic Channel has a curious brand of grammar - November 24, 2009 - As Miss Teen South Carolina reminded us so memorably in 2007, "Some people in our nation don't have maps. . . ." So true. But you can't...

Tom Petruno

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.

Liz Pulliam Weston

Liz Pulliam Weston

Planning a family? How to prepare financially - November 22, 2009 - Dear Liz: My wife and I are planning to have a child in the next couple of years, and I realize that I have no idea how to go about...

Sports Columnists

Chris Erskine

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...

Bill Plaschke

Bill Plaschke

The city could be UCLA's for the taking - November 22, 2009 - The sweat still dripping, the stains still fresh, Rahim Moore ran from the Rose Bowl's grassy stage to a sideline stage.

T.J. Simers

T.J. Simers

Complaints about Pete Carroll and Ralph Lawler are utterly ridiculous - November 24, 2009 - I go away for a week, and you people just lose it!

Bill Dwyre

Bill Dwyre

UCLA vs. USC: Let's call it a bowl game! - November 24, 2009 - Lost in the knee-jerk hype about Saturday's USC-UCLA football rivalry will be the disturbing reality that this is the autumn of our...

Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott's NHL rankings - November 24, 2009 - HELENE ELLIOTT'S NHL RANKINGS

Jerry Crowe

Jerry Crowe

Boxing referee Gwen Adair picks her battles, fights the good fight - November 22, 2009 - Gwen Adair never set out to be a pioneer.

Meghan Daum

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

Jonah Goldberg

Winner take all on healthcare - November 24, 2009 - Ihereby forfeit my claim to a vast right-wing conspiracy decoder ring by offering two cheers for the Democrats. I congratulate them on...

Gregory Rodriguez

Gregory Rodriguez

Ft. Hood and the bugaboo of 'political correctness' - November 23, 2009 - The Ft. Hood massacre was not the first violent tragedy that conservatives have blamed on political correctness. But it might be the first...

Doyle McManus

Doyle McManus

Legislating healthcare the old-fashioned way - November 22, 2009 - This weekend, as the Senate tackles the healthcare bill that may be its most important domestic legislation in a generation, you might...

Tim Rutten

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...