Okay, we shouldn’t be saying this because they’re the competition and all, but here’s a perfect example of how to make us read–or not read–the Press-Telegram.
You may have seen it: a story by Kelly Puente with the headline “Driver arrested after vehicle plows into Norwalk liquor store.” That’s boring. The story’s okay–but the headline puts [...]

That’s right: Congresswoman Laura Richardson’s (D-Long Beach) automotive hijinks apparently continued after she left Long Beach City Council in late 2006–failing, until recently, to pay the repair bills on her own BMW.
As the Daily Breeze’s Gene Maddaus reports today, upon arriving in Washington, D.C. last fall, Richardson promptly leased the most expensive car of any [...]

Laura Richard’s reaction to questions about her bad financial judgement? More of the same! A story by Associated Press reporter Erica Werner that appears in today’s Press-Telegram  reports that Long Beach’s freshman congresswoman will be the money-grubbin’ guest of honor at a fundraiser thrown for her by House of Representatives Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland). The [...]

It’s okay if you’ve been sitting around wondering whatever happened to Long Beach’s former city manager Henry Taboada, whom we’re pretty sure immediately preceded Jerry Miller–who in turn preceded our current City Manager Pat West.
And now there’s an answer.
Taboada, our former public servant, turns up today in Rossmoor, in Press-Telegram reporter John Canalis’s story on [...]

LB City Auditor Laura Doud issues a press release underscoring the need to protect whistleblowers–like the people who routinely tip off journalists and law-enforcement officials about public corruption.  “As a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Fraud Examiner, I know that fraud is a very serious problem for all local governments including the City of Long [...]

You might have missed this, but The Associated Press’s Erica Werner covered the annual release Monday of congressional disclosure reports, in hopes it would shed some light on that whole Congresswoman Laura Richardson (D-Long Beach) thing.
“In earlier disclosure forms filed in May, the first-term Democrat listed no liabilities, although reports emerged late last month she [...]

Yes, it’s true: the big day is finally here and at its 5 p.m. meeting Long Beach City Council will finally consider the first of two audits of Long Beach Museum of Art. (The second audit comes next month.)

Here’s a couple of the larger, more interesting recent examinations of the Long Beach Museum of Art audit which came out Monday–both of which get more intriguing when they stop talking numbers, and start talking about missing art.
Los Angeles Times reporter Deborah Schoch apparently talked to Museum Director Ron Nelson on Wednesday, and found out [...]

Yes, it appears to be true.
You remember the Sacramento house which now-Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Long Beach) purchased during her brief time last year as a state assemblywoman–after she left Long Beach City Council and before she ran and was elected to United States Congress last year?
And you remember how Richardson stopped paying her mortgage on [...]

We are getting closer to that second audit of Long Beach Museum of Art–closer in the cosmic sense, though despite what you may have read recently in the Gazette Newspapers it’s still not certain that we’ll actually see the audit at the June 17 Long Beach City Council meeting.
Olivia Maiser, spokeswoman for the Auditor’s office [...]