![Can reason prevail here? Can reason prevail here?](https://www.sbsun.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.sbsun.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.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IDB-L-PICNIC-0704-07-WL.jpg?w=129)
Larry Wilson: To weave a better cloth in common
![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.sbsun.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.sbsun.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
![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.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/donald-trump-hugs-narendra-modi.jpg?w=125)
Larry Wilson: Little wins in the war against despotism
![Robert F. Kennedy Robert F. Kennedy](https://www.sbsun.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
![I wish it were different, but looks like it will never be. I wish it were different, but looks like it will never be.](https://www.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/PAS-L-MUIRDOC-1116-1.jpg?w=109)
Larry Wilson: School integration is a dream not just deferred but dead
![The kind of politician the moribund current CGOP can only dream of. The kind of politician the moribund current CGOP can only dream of.](https://www.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/OCR-L-CAGOP-CONVENTION-0930-JG-20.jpg?w=132)
Larry Wilson: Where are GOP candidates like Pete McCloskey?
![When the police arrest reporters just doing their job When the police arrest reporters just doing their job](https://www.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/LDN-L-UCLA-NITE2-0502-36-1.jpg?w=132)
Larry Wilson: The fight to keep a free press free
![The whole front range finally gets its due. The whole front range finally gets its due.](https://www.sbsun.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IDB-L-FORESTDISTRICT-0907-07.jpg?w=130)