Long Beach State men’s basketball coach Dan Monson has a legacy of rebuilding programs at other universities, but can he put the 49ers back on top?

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Dan Monson has been here before. Not here here—Monson only knew Southern California by reputation when Long Beach State’s athletic director phoned in 2007 to suggest he [...]

I’m an idiot.
Last week, I gushed about how well this city’s government worked, how sensitive and in touch it was with the wishes of its residents. Yeah, well, that was a bunch of crap because apparently city officials are once again engaged in that behavoir where they say something and that something turns out not [...]

I’m still amazed at the meeting I went to last night in Belmont Shore. Amazed at how quickly nothing happened–and by nothing, I mean a whole lot. So much, in fact, that by the time Marine Bureau Manager Mark Sandoval said “I think we’re done here,” the meeting broke out into the kind of cheering [...]