In case you missed it over the weekend, federal money to study the breakwater (and to throw a kegger after the final, which we are totally not ready for) is trickling through Congress.

As the Press-Telegram’s Paul Eakins recently informed us, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water last week approved a bill that includes $100,000 for the Army Corps to review the city of Long Beach’s reconnaissance study of the breakwater.

The city thinks this is a good thing, and so does our erstwhile Congressional Rep. Laura Richardson (D-ilapidated), communicating by statement as is her wont.

“This $100,000 allocation for the Army Corps’s reconnaissance report is one of the most vital allocations this region will receive and it is particularly vital in these economic times to ensure an objective evaluation is made so that all resident, business and government issues and concerns are considered,” Richardson said in a statement Friday, reprinted in the P-T.

Not exactly spellbinding verbiage–certainly no “Cross of Gold” speech–but Fourth District Councilman Patrick O’Donnell was suitably impressed.

“Long Beach owes a thank you to Congresswoman Laura Richardson,” O’Donnell told the P-T. “This has been an issue that not everyone wanted to push.”

He’s right about that. We have–and will very likely continue to have–a breakwater for a long, long time. But progress is always nice.

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