Gene Rotondo, who has ruled the Belmont Shore Business Association as its president for more than a decade, has announced the Mike Ruehle—who is president of the Belmont Shore Residents Association—will no longer be permitted to attend the open-to-the-public meetings.
Rotondo made the announcement Tuesday evening in an e-mail he sent to members of the Residents Association board.
Ruehle has [...]

ALSO? A CHICKEN-WING EMBARGO
Seeking to control business, politics, and media on Second Street, Belmont Shore Business Association president Gene Rotondo has expanded his effort to starve the District of ad revenue, now reportedly also denying the president of the local neighborhood association continued access to chicken wings at Legends, one of several bars he owns.

 The Long Beach City Council unanimously took another step Tuesday night toward giving a small group of Belmont Shore landowner/businessmen/kinda-sorta-government officials another shot at a bond issue election that would pave the alleys around their properties and pay former city councilman Frank Colonna $1.5 million for a parking lot that serves his tenants.
But the 8-0 [...]

Some of Belmont Shore’s biggest landowners and businessmen, operating under the authority of two quasi-governmental agencies in the quaint seaside district, are taking another run at a bond issue that would pave the alleys around their properties and pay a former city councilman $1.5 million for a parking lot. Good deal if you can get [...]

P-T editorializes the Gene Rotondo ATM-parking saga
Belmont Shore restaurateur Gene Rotondo’s problems with the ATM at his newly-renovated and reopened Legends sports bar have been well-documented in the Press-Telegram.
It’s just interesting, sometimes, to take a step back and consider what it’s all about–and to wonder how much we’d care about all this if, say, Rotondo [...]