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Letters to the Editor: I’m a polio survivor. RFK Jr. shouldn’t have say in the nation’s health policies
1 day, 15 hours ago

Letters to the Editor: I’m a polio survivor. RFK Jr. shouldn’t have say in the nation’s health policies

LA Times  

To the editor: I am a survivor of bulbar polio; I contracted it when I was 5 years old in 1946. I knew my children and countless others would never face what I went through, or face death or an iron lung. I can’t describe how angry I was to find out that an advisor to Robert Kennedy Jr. is …

Polio
Letters to the Editor: Don’t let a smartwatch tell you how you’re doing at life
1 day, 15 hours ago

Letters to the Editor: Don’t let a smartwatch tell you how you’re doing at life

LA Times  

Apple watches are seen on display at an Apple Store in New York in 2023. To the editor: I have watched the smartwatch trend become more prevalent among friends and strangers to the point where I’ve felt that I too should join the movement. Ultimately, tracking and focusing on this data could reduce one’s self-awareness to only those numbers. I …

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Letters to the Editor: Stop making mandatory drug treatment a civil rights issue
1 day, 15 hours ago

Letters to the Editor: Stop making mandatory drug treatment a civil rights issue

LA Times  

To the editor: Steve Lopez has written another fine column on drug addiction and homelessness around MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. Lopez talked to one addict, Aaron, who has overdosed 20 times and doesn’t think rehab would work for him. Another addict told Lopez that the best solution is mandatory detox. Some of the more overly sympathetic among us want …

Letters to the Editor: A love of travel shouldn’t ignore its environmental costs
1 day, 15 hours ago

Letters to the Editor: A love of travel shouldn’t ignore its environmental costs

LA Times  

To the editor: In her op-ed about the glories of travel, writer Lisa Niver laments lost luggage, missed flights and LAX. Our fragile planet is so compromised by human-caused climate chaos that we can no longer afford to gallivant around the world on airplanes without further dire consequences. The kind of air travel Niver suggests is energy-intensive and dependent on …

Niver
Call For Submissions: NALSAR-IAMC ADR Journal [Submit By 12th January]
2 days, 9 hours ago

Call For Submissions: NALSAR-IAMC ADR Journal [Submit By 12th January]

Live Law  

The NALSAR-IAMC ADR Journal is a collaboration between The National Academy of Legal Studies and Research and The International Arbitration and Mediation Centre, Hyderabad, and it endeavours to facilitate the development of scholarship in the fields of Arbitration and Alternate Dispute Resolution. In furtherance of the same, the Journal aims to provide a robust platform for legal minds all over …

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Letters to the Editor: Los Angeles needs to better support its animal shelters
2 days, 15 hours ago

Letters to the Editor: Los Angeles needs to better support its animal shelters

LA Times  

To the editor: Thanks for keeping the spotlight on this decades-old issue of the troubles at L.A. Too many necessary public departments, including this one, continue to be underfunded and therefore suffer from woeful understaffing. In acknowledgment of the good they do, we must continue the push to reform our shelter system into one Los Angeles can be proud of. …

Animal Dogs Los Angeles Foster Shelter Editor
Letters to the Editor: Holiday lights, and the ‘Peanuts’ gang, belong to all faiths
3 days, 15 hours ago

Letters to the Editor: Holiday lights, and the ‘Peanuts’ gang, belong to all faiths

LA Times  

To the editor: Regarding Eli Federman’s piece on holiday lights, there is nothing wrong with illuminated Hanukkah decorations. To the editor: One thing the writer left out: With the eight days of Hanukkah starting on Christmas, the Jewish festival will stretch into the first days of January. To the editor: My young son was raised in the Jewish faith but …

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Letters to the Editor: Will Trump’s lawsuit against an Iowa paper and a pollster hold?
3 days, 15 hours ago

Letters to the Editor: Will Trump’s lawsuit against an Iowa paper and a pollster hold?

LA Times  

To the editor: The lawsuit Trump filed against the Des Moines Register and pollster J. Ann Selzer is legally unsound. To the editor: Pollster J. Ann Selzer decries that she’s accused of election interference without a “shred of evidence.” The ridiculous result of her poll is at least a shred and the purpose of discovery in lawsuits is to find …

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Letters to the Editor: The economy transcends presidents? Just wait till Trump fully embraces crypto
4 days, 15 hours ago

Letters to the Editor: The economy transcends presidents? Just wait till Trump fully embraces crypto

LA Times  

To the editor: I take issue with Jonah Goldberg’s assertion that the U.S. economy transcends presidents. To the editor: The incoming Trump administration’s embrace of cryptocurrencies will certainly test Goldberg’s idea that presidents don’t have much effect on the economy. In the “good old days” of our country, there were the very rich and the very poor, until Franklin Delano …

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Letters to the Editor: Righting a Social Security wrong — but for how long?
4 days, 15 hours ago

Letters to the Editor: Righting a Social Security wrong — but for how long?

LA Times  

If the Senate passes a new law and President Biden signs it, some people doing without Social Security benefits would receive them. To the editor: If the U.S. Senate votes to pass the Social Security Fairness Act, it will be righting an egregious wrong inflicted on millions of hard-working people for way too long. We all know that the Social …

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Letters to the Editor: Trump will pit the military against law and order
5 days, 15 hours ago

Letters to the Editor: Trump will pit the military against law and order

LA Times  

Then-President Trump departs the White House in 2020 with Atty. To the editor: I appreciate the dedication and the military service of ML Cavanaugh; however, Donald Trump cannot be trusted to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” He told more than 30,000 lies during his tenure in office, according to the …

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Letters to the Editor: There’s plenty of blame to go around in USC admissions scandal
5 days, 15 hours ago

Letters to the Editor: There’s plenty of blame to go around in USC admissions scandal

LA Times  

Former USC athletic administrator Donna Heinel looks out over the bay in Long Beach, a place where she processed what was happening to her at the height of the “Varsity Blues” investigation, in November. While she may have been involved in a system of institutional processes at USC that badly needed reform, the $160,000 in funds that landed in Heinel’s …

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Letters to the Editor: Is the L.A. Times in a new era? Here’s what readers think
5 days, 15 hours ago

Letters to the Editor: Is the L.A. Times in a new era? Here’s what readers think

LA Times  

To the editor: This paper should not be liberal, conservative or moderate. I do not need additional opinion pieces, and I certainly don’t need the L.A. Times to tell me if the writing is conservative or liberal. To the editor: I read with great interest James Rainey’s lengthy interview with L.A. Times publisher Patrick Soon-Shiong. I was outraged that Dr. …

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Letters to the Editor: What awaits Syria after the fall of a dictator?
6 days, 15 hours ago

Letters to the Editor: What awaits Syria after the fall of a dictator?

LA Times  

To the editor: With the fall of Syria’s ruthless dictator and finally, the opening of its prison gates, the world is getting a full picture of the barbarity Bashar Assad unleashed against the innocent civilians of his country for years. Oren Spiegler, Peters Township, Pa.. To the editor: Can anyone, other than this op-ed writer, claim there is an established …

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Letters to the Editor: In Alhambra, a housing crisis for L.A. families
6 days, 15 hours ago

Letters to the Editor: In Alhambra, a housing crisis for L.A. families

LA Times  

The city of Alhambra celebrates the Year of the Dragon with its 2024 Rose Parade float on Jan. 1 in Pasadena. To the editor: The hollowing out of Alhambra’s middle class serves as another sad testimony to the damage that the deadly trifecta of unaffordable housing, predatory student loan debt and real estate speculation continues to inflict on Los Angeles …

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Letters to the Editor: How the U.S. is messing up on immigration
6 days, 15 hours ago

Letters to the Editor: How the U.S. is messing up on immigration

LA Times  

Roofing company workers assemble to shovel snow off a building on Dec. 3 in Mammoth Lakes. Why aren’t there articles about farm and restaurant owners applying for work visas, nonimmigrant NAFTA Professional visas, or other employment visas for their employees? To the editor: In light of President-elect Donald Trump’s push for mass deportation, the view on immigrants has become dehumanizing …

Immigrants Mass Deportation
Letters to the Editor: In defense of civil society in the era of Trump and ‘smash and grab’
6 days, 15 hours ago

Letters to the Editor: In defense of civil society in the era of Trump and ‘smash and grab’

LA Times  

A voter places his ballot in the drop box at the Orange County Registrar of Voters in Santa Ana on Nov. 5. To the editor: “When did it become OK?” — seeing this statement from someone frustrated over “smash and grab” robberies and who voted for President-elect Donald Trump because of crime raised many bigger questions. When is it ever …

Civil Society
Letters to the Editor: Did Latinos in Downey swing toward Trump or away from Harris?
1 week ago

Letters to the Editor: Did Latinos in Downey swing toward Trump or away from Harris?

LA Times  

A home in Downey sports signs in support of Donald Trump last month. To the editor: Great story on Latino voters in Downey swinging toward President-elect Donald Trump. Voters in Downey didn’t run toward Trump; they stepped away from Harris. Fernando Guerra, Los Angeles The writer, a political science professor, is director of the Center for the Study of L.A. …

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Letters to the Editor: Take these climate steps to save Alaska’s polar bears and California’s Joshua trees
1 week ago

Letters to the Editor: Take these climate steps to save Alaska’s polar bears and California’s Joshua trees

LA Times  

Glaciers such as Mendenhall in Juneau, Alaska, are rapidly shrinking as average temperatures rise. To the editor: I fully agree with David Helvarg’s concern that Alaska is both a climate victim and a perpetrator. First, we need more nuclear power, the only non-warming energy source that can quickly meet the scale of our demand without undue habitat destruction. Such renewables …

California
Letters to the Editor: Yes, conservative evangelicals care for ‘the least of these’
1 week ago

Letters to the Editor: Yes, conservative evangelicals care for ‘the least of these’

LA Times  

To the editor: Contrary to what Randall Balmer believes, evangelical Christians on the so-called right are not socially indifferent. In a nutshell, Balmer’s comments amount to a political screed that twists everything to fit his leftist opinions. To the editor: For all the theological turbulence of the past two centuries, contemporary evangelicalism’s guiding star has emerged. Hence, evangelicals now preach …

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Letters to the Editor: I’m from L.A.’s Jewish community. This is why Pico-Robertson backed Trump
1 week, 1 day ago

Letters to the Editor: I’m from L.A.’s Jewish community. This is why Pico-Robertson backed Trump

LA Times  

A customer exits Bibi’s Bakery & Cafe, where U.S. and Israeli flags hang side by side, in L.A.’s Pico-Robertson neighborhood last month. To the editor: I am the author of the book “Los Angeles Jew: A Memoir.” Although I now reside in Orange County, I know my native-born L.A. Jewish community well. Yes, the Pico-Robertson area is heavily Jewish, but …

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Letters to the Editor: Are Israel’s actions in Gaza proof of its genocidal intent?
1 week, 1 day ago

Letters to the Editor: Are Israel’s actions in Gaza proof of its genocidal intent?

LA Times  

To the editor: Jonah Goldberg bases his argument that Israel is not guilty of genocide on the dubious claim that, no matter the extent of the destruction of the Gaza Strip’s social, educational and healthcare infrastructure and the mass slaughter of innocent Palestinians, unless the conveniently elusive concept of “intent” is demonstrated, then the Israeli campaign falls short of genocide. …

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Letters to the Editor: Football is about brute force. Do your brain a favor and sit it out
1 week, 2 days ago

Letters to the Editor: Football is about brute force. Do your brain a favor and sit it out

LA Times  

Ohio State and Michigan football players get into a fight on the field in Columbus, Ohio, on Nov. 30. To the editor: Sociology professors Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva are correct about the hypocrisy of shaming college football players who get into brawls on the field. Margaret Hamilton, Portland, Ore.. To the editor: Thanks to The Times for again alerting …

Player Football Injury
Letters to the Editor: Is Congress listening to the people’s outrage over health insurance?
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1 week, 2 days ago

Letters to the Editor: Is Congress listening to the people’s outrage over health insurance?

LA Times  

Police investigate the scene where UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot in New York on Dec. 4. To the editor: Jamie Court is correct that killing the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare will not solve the problems that the craven leaders of these insurance companies created with their policies of delay and deny. However, there’s finally a public discussion on the …

Health