Steve Lopez is a California native who has been a Los Angeles Times columnist since 2001. He has won more than a dozen national journalism awards and is a four-time Pulitzer finalist. Lopez is the author most recently of “Independence Day: What I Learned About Retirement, From Some Who’ve Done It and Some Who Never Will.” His book “The Soloist,” inspired by his columns on his relationship with a Juilliard-trained homeless person, was a Los Angeles Times and New York Times best-seller, winner of the PEN USA Literary Award for Non-Fiction, and the subject of a Dream Works movie by the same name. He has also written three novels and two column collections.
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MacArthur Park is under siege from gangs and addicts. Is it too much to ask the city to fix the broken streetlights that line the borders of the public space?
Sept. 14, 2024
Some say the Democrats are to blame for California’s problems, so what are the Republicans doing? Shrinking their tent
Sept. 7, 2024
¿Cierra Langer’s? Es difícil imaginar el parque MacArthur y la ciudad sin uno de sus puntos más emblemáticos. Sería un proyecto que te dejaría sin aliento.
Sept. 2, 2024
Your sidewalk needs to be fixed, so what do you do? Leave town? Get yourself a sturdy burro? Or try to work with the city of Los Angeles? Good luck on all fronts
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Mayor Karen Bass read that Norm Langer was thinking of closing his deli, so she stopped by for lunch and vowed to address neighborhood problems
Aug. 29, 2024
Langer’s, closing? It’s hard to imagine MacArthur Park, and the city, without one of its most iconic anchors. It would be a hole-in-your-soul development.
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