Letters to the editor

FILE- Voting booths are set up at a polling place in Newtown, Pa, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Letters to the Editor: AI and politics

By Letters to the Editor

May 25, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

C’mon, man.

A San Diego Police Sgt. guards the Islamic Center of San Diego the day after a shooting at the center left three dead on May 19, 2026 in San Diego, CA. (K.C. Alfred / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Letters to the editor for May 21

By Letters to the Editor

May 21, 2026 at 6:42 a.m.

May 21

This is the first extension of the Metro D Line subway that goes to the to the Wilshire/Fairfax station. The view looking at the station on Wilshire Boulevard next to the Petersen Automotive Museum on Thursday, May 7, 2026. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Letter: LA Metro is committed to improvement

By Letters to the Editor

May 21, 2026 at 9:54 a.m.

If our governance framework can better integrate customer input into decision-making, that is a conversation...

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands.

Letters to the Editor, May 14

By Letters to the Editor

May 14, 2026 at 5:01 a.m.

Your letters

Brian Rice, California Professional Firefighters

Letters: Proposal to lower retirement age for firefighters is totally unjustified

By Letters to the Editor

April 27, 2026 at 2:55 p.m.

Rather than a safety measure, this bill appears to be a strategic move to expand...

A view of the California State Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Aug. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Juliana Yamada, File)

Letter: Firefighters union disheartened by opposition to pension bill

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March 29, 2026 at 2:17 p.m.

California’s firefighters are facing heightened occurrences of injuries and illnesses, including cancer.

FILE – Former Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, left, is sentenced to three years solitary confinement by a military court after finding him guilty on 13 charges of acting against the shah, in Tehran, Iran on Dec. 21, 1953. In August 1953, a CIA-backed coup toppled Iran’s prime minister, cementing the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi for over 25 years before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. (AP Photo, File)

Letter: Susan Shelley’s conveniently incomplete tale of U.S.-Iran history

By Letters to the Editor

March 10, 2026 at 8:29 a.m.

A distorted view of the justifications for the US/Israeli attack.

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Letters to the editor: Week of Feb. 15

By Letters to the Editor

February 19, 2026 at 9:18 a.m.

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Kathryn Barger listens as The LA Metro Board of Directors discussed the environmental impact report for the K-Line extension to Torrance Jan. 22, 2026 in Los Angeles, CA. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)

Letter: ‘No’ vote on LA County tax hike about affordability, not party

By Letters to the Editor

February 11, 2026 at 4:59 p.m.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is a nonpartisan body, and this debate was...

Mayor Todd Gloria (left) and San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan (right) speak during the “Housing Now: A Vision to Reach Functional Zero Unsheltered Homelessness” at the Senator Blakespear’s 3rd Annual Ending Street Homelessness Summit on Aug. 13, 2025 at University of California San Diego in La Jolla, Calif. (Ariana Drehsler / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Letter: John Phillips is wrong. Mahan is California’s Beto O’Rourke.

By Letters to the Editor

February 4, 2026 at 10:55 a.m.

Hilton had the best answer on affordability, homelessness, education and was polling over 60% on...

ICE, ATF, and FBI officers are seen as tensions escalate between community members and federal agents following an operation, Tuesday, June 3, 2025, in Minneapolis, Minn. (Kerem Yücel/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)

Letters: Justice Bedsworth sounds the alarm on federal abuses

By Letters to the Editor

February 1, 2026 at 12:02 p.m.

Trump's agents trample the Fourth Amendment

UTOPIA Fiber crews install fiber conduit in West Point, Utah. The network announced it had successfully closed on a $52.5 million round in February 2021. (Photo: Business Wire)

Letter: Golden State Fiber is no boondoggle

By Letters to the Editor

January 24, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Johnny Kampis’ op-ed casts open-access municipal broadband in a negative light while implicitly defending a...

New South Wales Premier Chris Minns, right, and Kellie Sloane, leader of the opposition, the New South Wales Liberal Party, lay wreaths at a tribute for shooting victims outside the Bondi Pavilion at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, a day after a shooting. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Letters: Readers on gun control after recent mass shootings

By Letters to the Editor

December 16, 2025 at 10:36 a.m.

This was a hate crime against Jews which has festered for centuries.

President Donald Trump listens during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Letter: Trump’s irrational call to ban legal immigration from ‘Third World’

By Letters to the Editor

December 2, 2025 at 3:09 p.m.

The hatred and intolerance expressed by this president and his administration horrifies me and makes me...