![Can reason prevail here? Can reason prevail here?](https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sut-z-gop-convention-0718-10.jpg?w=132)
Larry Wilson
Larry Wilson is a member of the Southern California News Group's editorial board, writing a twice-weekly column, and is public editor of the Pasadena Star-News, San Gabriel Valley Tribune and Whittier Daily News. For 12 years he was the editor of the Star-News, and prior to that its editorial page editor. He has been a professional journalist since age 19 when he became the rock music critic of The Daily Californian at UC Berkeley, a student newspaper he now sits on the Board of Directors of, and has worked at the Pasadena Guardian, the Pasadena Weekly, where he was founding business manager, and Rolling Stone Press. He is a co-founder, with the novelist Jervey Tervalon and the late food critic Jonathan Gold, of LitFest Pasadena.
Location: Pasadena, California, USA
All Stories
![Can reason prevail here? Can reason prevail here?](https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sut-z-gop-convention-0718-10.jpg?w=132)
![Check out your own neighborhood’s possibilities. Check out your own neighborhood’s possibilities.](https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IDB-L-PICNIC-0704-07-WL.jpg?w=129)
Larry Wilson: To weave a better cloth in common
![We’ll take our sensible traffic victories where we can We’ll take our sensible traffic victories where we can](https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RDF-L-YUCPARKING-0816-06-WL.jpg?w=140)
Larry Wilson: Pasadena takes needless stop signs from new traffic circles
![No joy in the Mudville that is American politics after the dismal debate? No joy in the Mudville that is American politics after the dismal debate?](https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/AP24187729303964-1.jpg?w=132)
Prexy follies: Who do you like if old Joe drops out?
![Imagine if we only had to put up with 42 days of politicking Imagine if we only had to put up with 42 days of politicking](https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/LDN-L-VIRUS-LAC-UPDATE-0719-06.jpg?w=132)
Larry Wilson: Across the pond at a British election
![I hope it's not true I hope it's not true](https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/PAS-L-CLAIM-PRESSER-0607-01-2.jpg?w=127)
Larry Wilson: Gang, assault charges roil Pasadena Police Dept.
![The Indian people weren’t buying his second coming bit any longer. The Indian people weren’t buying his second coming bit any longer.](https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/donald-trump-hugs-narendra-modi.jpg?w=125)
Larry Wilson: Little wins in the war against despotism
![She blew into town and changed Pasadena She blew into town and changed Pasadena](https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/OCR-L-FREECONCERTS-0630-2.jpg?w=128)
Larry Wilson: Liz Levitt Hirsch, RIP
![Robert F. Kennedy Robert F. Kennedy](https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/US-NEWS-HEALTH-LIE-OF-YEAR-GET.jpg?w=133)
Larry Wilson: RFK Jr.’s Jim Crow fetish for bad Dixie
![How beautifully it stands to this day! How beautifully it stands to this day!](https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/castle-green.png?w=133)