Veteran Press-Telegram reporter Joe Segura writes today about Legends owner Gene Rotondo banning Belmont Shore Residents Association President Mike Ruehle from his sports bar/restaurant.
The story also notes the ongoing advertising boycott which several Second Street businesses have begun against The District Weekly.
Catch Segura’s story here.

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.

Belmont Shore businessmen want taxpayers to pay for improvements around their properties

PHOTO by JENNY STOCKDALE
A small group of wealthy Belmont Shore businessmen and landowners, some who hold quasi-governmental positions, are taking another run at a $5.8 million bond issue to pave alleys around their properties and pay one of them—former city councilman Frank Colonna—$1.5 million [...]

 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 [...]