To the editor: As a Los Angeles Times subscriber for 40 of my 40 years in L.A., I was pleased to see a well-written story […]
Category: Opinion
Tom Steyer could’ve used his campaign budget to help Californians
To the editor: The billionaire Tom Steyer has spent more than $200 million on his own campaign for governor (“Record-setting outside money pouring into California […]
Plan to reduce trash flowing into ocean ahead of Olympics is misguided
To the editor: Lila Seidman’s piece underscores a very salient problem: Plastic pollution is choking our rivers and oceans (“L.A.’s ultra-urban rivers wash tons of […]
Column: Enough navel-gazing, Democrats. Focus on the future
Could there be a better metaphor for the plight of the out-of-power Democratic Party than the fact that it’s now a week into debating how […]
Contributor: The case for a silent commute
I cross the same five-lane bridge twice a day, on the way to and from my 9-to-6 job. These crossings occur at approximately 8:40 a.m. […]
Letters to the Editor: Exclusionary admissions in med schools will only hurt our communities
To the editor: Michael Hiltzik’s recent column clearly diagnoses the issue (“Justice Department attack on UCLA and other med schools shows it has no idea […]
Letters to the Editor: Our housing market is creating ‘the Manhattanization of Los Angeles’
To the editor: I share staff writer Hailey Branson-Potts’ sadness and outrage (“This burnt-out 3-bedroom in Torrance sold for over $1 million. Welcome to California’s […]
Letters to the Editor: In the face of another chemical crisis, we need prevention, not apologies
To the editor: The massive threat to Orange County from the Garden Grove chemical plant is consistent with western Riverside County’s August 2022 near-explosion of […]
Contributor: Almost-forgotten atrocity in Vietnam War holds lessons for the Trump era
One of the last major underreported stories of the Vietnam War — a six-month campaign by U.S. troops that killed thousands of Vietnamese civilians — […]
Column: The Democratic Party ‘autopsy’ somehow disappointed everyone
There’s an ancient, almost surely apocryphal story about a dog food company executive convening a big sales meeting. A very short version has the exec […]