Valley Press Opinion Pages

Our Opinion pages provide our readers with thought-provoking and diverse opinions and analysis on local, state, national and world issues.

Some of our most popular and provocative commentary comes from our readers who speak out in the Letters from Readers section on every issue of public interest. The Valley Press devotes a significant amount of space to readers' letters to give you a voice.

We publishe about 3,000 letters from readers each year.

National syndicated and local columnists featured on our pages include:

Bill O'Reilly

O'Reilly is host of the Fox News show, "The O'Reilly Factor."

Cal Thomas

Thomas is an award-winning syndicated columnist, distributed by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate.

Edward Mooney

Mooney is a local author and teacher at Quartz Hill High School.

Maria Elena Salinas

Salinas is anchor of "Noticiero Unvision."

Jeff Jacoby

Jacoby is a columnist for the Boston Globe.

Morton Kondracke

Kondracke is executive editor of Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill.

Kathleen Parker

Parker is a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel.

Dan Walters

Walters covers Sacramento for McClatchy News Service.

Daniel Weintraub

Weintraub is a writer for the Sacramento Bee.

Thursday

Ann Coulter

Coulter is a conservative political analyst, attorney and popular talk-show pundit.

Friday

Larry Elder

Elder is a syndicated radio talk-show host and author.

Joe Galloway

Galloway is the senior military correspondent for Knight Ridder.

Saturday

Ralph Brax

Brax is a professor at Antelope Valley College and a local activist.

Janice Hall

Hall has been a professor of English at Antelope Valley College for 30 years.

John Hall

Hall is a professor of English at Antelope Valley College, a former reporter and a former-Marine.



Norman Shoaf, Opinion page editor,
(661) 267-4155.
editor@avpress.com

Revised December 29 2006

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