Opinion: Top of the Ticket’s Andrew Malcolm moving on

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Today marks the last day new posts will appear on Top of The Ticket at latimes.com.

In the Ticket’s 51 months of existence, lead blogger Andrew Malcolm and a host of contributors have posted more than 8,800 stories, drawing nearly 67 million page views, including slightly more than 2 million in September, its last month. Readers kept up a steady dialogue with the Ticket, responding with about 142,000 posted comments.

Malcolm, a veteran foreign and national correspondent and author of 10 nonfiction books, has decided to move to other pastures. He’ll be writing a blog and a column for Investor’s Business Daily.