There was no meeting of the Long Beach City Council on Tuesday night — never is on the last Tuesday of the month – but as if by habit local politicos threw their weight around, anyway.
Councilmembers Patrick O’Donnell and Val Lerch announced their endorsement of Vice Mayor Bonnie Lowenthal in her campaign for the 54th District’s seat in the California [...]

(UPDATED AND EXTENDED VERSION OF AN EARLIER POST)
 The Long Beach City Council used harsh words and a unanimous vote against its erstwhile hometown newspaper Tuesday night, resolving to “reevaluate” the hundreds of thousands of dollars it spends with the Press-Telegram every year, now that the paper will be operated by the publisher of the Daily [...]

Long Beach City Council members Tonia Reyes Uranga and Bonnie Lowenthal want to run for the California State Assembly’s 54th District seat this year. Before they actually go through with it, however, they’ve got to lose an election.
The candidacies of Lowenthal and Reyes Uranga hinge on the defeat of Proposition 93, the Term-Limit-Tweaking initiative on the [...]