Yep, it’s true, according to Daily Breeze reporter Gene Maddaus, whose story was picked up by the Press-Telegram: Sarah Palin, everyone.
The Republican vice presidential candidate will hold a rally Oct. 4 at 2 p.m., at the Home Depot Center in Carson–so start lining up your tickets now.
Should be quite a scene.

It’s official: No. 10 of the Futurliners–one of 12 oversized, streamlined buses General Motors built to haul its traveling promotional Parade of Progress shows in the 1940s and 1950s–is up for sale.
Where? Where else? eBay. The pricetag? There’s already one bid, at $950,000, so your price will be anywhere north of $950,100. Is it worth [...]

LBReport.com broke the news last week that Main Library’s Director of Library Services Eleanore Schmidt was retiring, but the Press-Telegram’s Paul Eakins has what we believe is the first interview with Schmidt.
Check it out. Schmidt, who came to Long Beach in 1989, fought years ago for a library tax that was shot down by Long [...]

The Long Beach plant where Boeing workers not so long ago built their last 717 passenger plane is in escrow and will become “the largest independent [film] production facility in the world.”
That’s according to the company buying the property, Long Beach Studios, LLC, and also today’s Press-Telegram, which chronicles the ongoing purchase in a three-bylined [...]

I was all set to relax and enjoy a stack of rental DVDs Wednesday night at 7:45 when I got a phone call alerting me to a truck crash involving a Blue Line train at Long Beach Boulevard and Fifteenth Street:
“Get down here quick! A truck shot out from a side street and crashed through [...]

Long Beach City College’s Pacific Coast Campus, on Pacific Coast Highway at Orange Avenue, has always had a vintage look–mainly because it was built from the Streamline Moderne campus of Hamilton Junior High School.
Now, however, it has a brand new Library and Learning Resource Center to balance that out, as the Press-Telegram points out–replete with [...]

Yep, more copper is gone again. This time, it’s 90 pre-ordered headstones and tablets from Forest Lawn Cemetery in Cypress, according to the Press-Telegram.
And even more interesting than the notion of pre-ordering one’s grave marker–or “What’s a tablet?” (we’re guessing it’s one of the little flat markers that mostly replaced tombstones)–is the price tag on [...]

Should the city’s Redevelopment Agency get 12 more years to exercise eminent domain in North Long Beach? You can help decide, at tonight’s Long Beach City Council meeting.
But when the Redevelopment Agency board voted yesterday to ask the council for an extension–at its meeting tonight–several audience members were on hand to give board members an [...]

Hard to believe, but in less than two months, our own congressional Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Long Beach) is up for re-election, in a race she’s expected to win despite financial woes that earned her a recent dishonorable mention from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics.
The Washington watchdog group gave Richardson the frowning of a lifetime for, [...]

After one last budget study session, Long Beach City Council adopted a new $3.1 billion city budget Tuesday that keeps Main Library open–at least for a while.
“City officials have said they still plan to close the Main Library eventually, opening a temporary site in the meantime and building a new library later,” Paul Eakins writes, [...]