They ran out of garden burgers early at Tuesday night’s Beer & Politics forum–which pitted the truth-and-justice screeds of assembly candidates on one end of Gallagher’s Pub against the screams of basketball fans on the other–and late in the evening talk-show host Art Levine ran off with Theo Douglas’ three-quarters-full glass of Widmer Hefeweizen. Who [...]

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 [...]

If you get around Long Beach a bit, you might have seen Press-Telegram Executive Editor Richard Archbold and his wife Pat–and P-T columnist Shirley Wild–helping judge yesterday’s Haute Dog Easter Parade in Belmont Shore, alongside yours truly.

Just got done hearing Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster speak, at this month’s Beer & Politics session, at Gallagher’s Pub & Grill.
He had tough words for polluters in the port–and some compassion for all the wildcat truck drivers out there who will be forced by the Port of Long Beach’s new clean air regulations to [...]

Breaking with its history of official neutrality, the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce will endorse and fund candidates in 2008 races for seats on the School Board — and may do so in City Council campaigns, too.
Randy Gordon, the Chamber’s president and CEO, confirmed the organization’s change in philosophy Tuesday night while speaking at the Beer [...]