No offense to the Press-Telegram’s Paul Eakins–but, really, someone kill me if I ever read another P-T Long Beach City Council story that leads with an item about parking trailers on the street. It’s not a badly executed story–and, yes, there are streets in Long Beach, and some people must park trailers on them. It just feels like minutia, and I have a sneaking suspicion that I’ll turn into Andy Rooney if I read it. And no one wants that.

I blame Andy Rooney–and trailers. And Eakins, for his dry spin on the meeting. Sometimes, a city council story is just a city council story.

Elsewhere in the P-T, Eakins does fine with more space and a decent deadline, dueting with Hanna Chu for a nicely done examination of the recently relocated and redone day laborers site up by the Signal Hill Home Depot.

That’s a story I actually wanted to read–and I did.

Tags: Andy Rooney, California, day laborers, Hanna Chu, home depot, Long Beach, Paul Eakins, press telegram, Signal Hill, Southern California, trailers

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Marla Fisher 12 months ago 1 point
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Hey dude. Until recently I lived downtown and our neighborhood had so many more serious problems, uh like the fatal gang shooting 30 feet from my house, or even the guys peeing in my alley, that I too got annoyed with the whole trailer/RV issue that obsesses the people in the 'burbs. Now that I have moved to East Long Beach however, and become soft, I admit it is really aggravating to have people park their RVs and trailers right in front of your house, blocking your view of the street. If those folks can afford $650,000 houses, they can afford to rent a storage space for their RVs. So I guess I am now officially Ms. Andy Rooney.

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