Los Angeles Times reporters Louis Sahagun (who’s written about the wetlands, and Main Library) and Dan Weikel, who’s also covered Long Beach in the past, weigh in today with a follow-up on privatizing Long Beach Airport.
Turns out, it’s no road to riches.
“Local governments that have tried to privatize airports in the past have found it [...]

Mayor’s new State of the City website seeks your Long Beach ideas
I have no idea what’ll be in Mayor Bob Foster’s Jan. 13 State of the City address–but the best thing about it thus far is the fact that it’ll be free and at Cal State Long Beach.
A close second is the Mayor’s new State [...]

VETERAN PHYSICIAN CALLS IT “SHAMEFUL CHAPTER” IN HOSPITAL’S HISTORY
Two days remain before a Nov. 1 policy change at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center will turn away ambulances from its emergency room and slash the number of medical beds from 135 to just 50, drastically reducing the level of urgent health care in Long Beach. At [...]

(OR WHY RANDY TERRELL JUST MAY BE THE BRAVEST MAN IN LONG BEACH)
Only a few days remain to catch Mayor Bob Foster’s Magical Measure-I Mystery Tour, the tough-medicine show that Long Beach’s chief executive has been rolling around town for more than two months. Step right up to witness an astonishing display of Hizzoner’s remarkable [...]

There’s another side to the impending changes on the adult side of Memorial Medical Center–which as we told you Monday have at least one longtime physician worried that the underinsured and uninsured may lose access to one of the city’s finest hospitals.

Will Mayor Bob Foster’s push for passage of his proposed $571-million parcel property tax increase be so intensive that it temporarily pushes his chief of staff, Becki Ames, out of City Hall to head the campaign?
“If I need to take a leave of absence to man the ship, I’d be happy to do it,” Ames [...]