Steve Lopez

6 days ago | latimes.com | Steve Lopez

I have just one thing to say about President Trump’s proposal to reopen Alcatraz as a prison for ruthless offenders. What took you so long? The “Rock,” as it has sometime been referred to, sits uselessly in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, criminally underutilized as a tourist destination. I’ve been there, and the beauty of the location is that back when cons tried to go over the wall, sharks were on duty 24/7, working as unpaid prison guards.

1 week ago | sunherald.com | Steve Lopez

Dr. Charles DeCarli, co-director of the UC Davis Alzheimer's Research Center, got the news in a call from a colleague on March 24. "Your study was terminated."DeCarli had been conducting a six-year examination, funded by the National Institutes of Health, of brain and vascular conditions that can be risk factors for dementia. The study, involving hundreds of medical staff, 14 research sites, and 1,700 patients at 19 clinical locations in the U.S., was building toward a goal of 2,250 patients.

1 week ago | swoknews.com | Steve Lopez

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1 week ago | latimes.com | Steve Lopez

Lawrence Tolliver built a gathering place for people who dropped by his barbershop through the decades— whether they needed a haircut or not. The Bard of Los Angeles was waiting for an elevator when I arrived at the office one day in 2002. Columnist Al Martinez and I greeted each other, and with a mixture of pride and disbelief, he shared a milestone. “This is it,” he said. “Fifty years in the business.”Martinez was in his early 70s and said he had no intention of slowing down.

1 week ago | latimes.com | Steve Lopez

Rose Shalom of Sunland lost her husband, Mannie Rezende, who had slowly deteriorated from Alzheimer’s over several years, in March. Dr. Charles DeCarli, co-director of the UC Davis Alzheimer’s Research Center, got the news in a call from a colleague on March 24. DeCarli had been conducting a six-year examination, funded by the National Institutes of Health, of brain and vascular conditions that can be risk factors for dementia.