Richard Larsen

Opinion columnist

Richard Larsen, deputy opinion page editor for The Star, has been a journalist in Ventura County for nearly three decades. Prior to joining The Star in 1992, he spent 14 years with The Press-Courier in Oxnard. He has been writing a weekly essay since October 2002.

Recent stories:

• Larsen: The republic must stand
  November 25, 2008
• Larsen: A free market to reinvent
  November 18, 2008
• Larsen: Bailouts, bonuses in economic hard times gall
  November 11, 2008
• Larsen: Make your ballot count
  November 4, 2008
• Larsen: Rhetoric becomes nasty
  October 28, 2008
• Larsen: Unprecedented election
  October 21, 2008
• Larsen: Can risk be neutralized?
  October 7, 2008
• Larsen: Time for GOP to get civil
  September 9, 2008
• Larsen: Democrats look forward
  September 2, 2008
• Larsen: Fluff trounces substance
  August 26, 2008
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