I wasn’t aware of the newsroom staff cut at the LA Times until today, when I read your column (June 22). I’m sad for the people who will no longer have a job there, but I’m happy to see you reach out to them! No doubt some of them live in our area and I can hope we benefit from their new life path.

Growing up in Massachusetts, The Boston Globe was my father’s preference, and my brother and I picked up a copy for him each Sunday morning after mass at the local general store.  Being a voracious reader, he read it from beginning to end each Sunday, before turning it over to my brother and me, usually on Monday evening.

Later while living in in New York, I read the New York Times and the New York Daily News. One I read for the accurate information reported and one I read basically for the gossip. I loved both of them equally.

When I relocated here, I subscribed to the Los Angeles Times that was delivered to my front door early Sunday morning. After Mass and laundry each Sunday morning, I sat down to breakfast and that huge and wonderful paper. Bill Plaschke was my favorite columnist because my sons and I were huge Lakers fans, and he told it like it was (whether we liked it or not.) There was so much information in that huge paper that it often took me a week to completely read it, but most often I did.

Times have changed, and I no longer have a Los Angeles Times subscription. Today I have a subscription to this weekly local paper which does a wonderful job of filling me in on what I want to know and, more importantly, what I need to know about local and worldwide events.

Tracy Collins
La Crescenta