Larry Wilson

Pasadena

Public Editor at Los Angeles Daily News

Public Editor at San Gabriel Valley Tribune

newspaper editor, columnist, surfer, artistic director of LitFest Pasadena -- a husband and a dad. formerly and forever @dailycal

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Articles

Larry Wilson: Why do we let Trump trash the free press?

3 days ago | sacbee.com | Larry Wilson

All - all! - American presidents have problems with the press. They don't like reporters, the nosey parkers, and while the reporters may occasionally like them, they must try to hide any such feelings, as what they - we - are really after is a scoop. And these days, it is entirely bad form in the newsroom to cozy up to a politician, whether that pres is a liberal Barack Obama or a conservative George W. Bush. The current president, Donald Trump, is neither a liberal nor a conservative.
Why do we let Trump trash the free press?

4 days ago | pasadenastarnews.com | Larry Wilson

All - all! - American presidents have problems with the press. They don't like reporters, the nosey parkers, and while the reporters may occasionally like them, they must try to hide any such feelings, as what they - we - are really after is a scoop. And these days, it is entirely bad form in the newsroom to cozy up to a politician, whether that pres is a liberal Barack Obama or a conservative George W. Bush. The current president, Donald Trump, is neither a liberal nor a conservative.
Larry Wilson: Tiny water companies can no longer serve Altadena

1 week ago | sgvtribune.com | Larry Wilson

The overarching water myth in our part of our state is one of massive entities — MWD, LADWP — controlled by criminally wealthy Kings of California with unholy power straight out of a film noir plot. Ordinary people who dare question the way that water works need to be told, once again, “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown,” and move on to fairer fights with organizations that aren’t so rich and gigantic that they are unassailable.
Tiny water companies can no longer serve Altadena

1 week ago | pasadenastarnews.com | Larry Wilson
Larry Wilson: Tiny water companies can no longer serve Altadena

1 week ago | whittierdailynews.com | Larry Wilson

The overarching water myth in our part of our state is one of massive entities — MWD, LADWP — controlled by criminally wealthy Kings of California with unholy power straight out of a film noir plot. Ordinary people who dare question the way that water works need to be told, once again, “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown,” and move on to fairer fights with organizations that aren’t so rich and gigantic that they are unassailable.
Larry Wilson: Trump fires 400 climate scientists on one hot day

1 week ago | sacbee.com | Larry Wilson

Just because you - you scholar, you - have decided to stop studying something, doesn't mean it's going away. When that lovely peacenik Pete Seeger - later echoed by Laura Nyro - sang "I ain't gonna study war no more," it didn't mean war was over. Yes, I've always thought it was a little weird that we actually have a National War College, where the military scholars go to study war, but it's probably more realistic than weird.
Trump fires 400 climate scientists on one hot day

1 week ago | pasadenastarnews.com | Larry Wilson

Just because you - you scholar, you - have decided to stop studying something, doesn't mean it's going away. When that lovely peacenik Pete Seeger - later echoed by Laura Nyro - sang "I ain't gonna study war no more," it didn't mean war was over. Yes, I've always thought it was a little weird that we actually have a National War College, where the military scholars go to study war, but it's probably more realistic than weird.
The key to Altadena's recovery is in the art

2 weeks ago | pasadenastarnews.com | Larry Wilson

That sentimental tradition of leaving locks locked to romantic places around the world doesn't work for me. It makes everything heavy and metallic. The grillwork beneath the handrails on the Pont des Artes across the Seine, for instance, used to be burdened by thousands of tiny padlocks with initials scrawled on them left by lovers who wanted to leave their hearts or some version of them in Paris. I understand that Paris is a romantic city.
Pope Francis saw the art of Africa, while we do not

2 weeks ago | pasadenastarnews.com | Larry Wilson

While we bide our time awaiting word of the funeral ceremonies for the American democratic republic, whose death occurred, as California columnist Joe Mathews clocks it, recently, aged 236, we can only flail randomly at the atrocities being perpetrated out of the White House. When you pop your head up out of the foxhole for a look, sadly, it matters very little which way you turn your head. Chaos reigns. Not the fun kind.
Larry Wilson: Norton Simon Museum renovates at its golden anniversary

3 weeks ago | sgvtribune.com | Larry Wilson

When the late artist Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude wrapped something monumental — the rolling hills of Marin in their “Running Fence,” the Pont Neuf, Central Park — the thing underneath was already something beautiful. Or important — the Reichstag in Berlin.