As usual, Mayor Foster has some high-profile appearances planned. Here’s a few:
“Long Beach Better Learning After School Today (BLAST) will hold a fundraising breakfast on May 15, 2008 at 7:30am at the Long Beach Yacht Club.  Mayor Bob Foster and fellow supporters of BLAST will discuss the challenges faced by at-risk youth in Long Beach [...]

We’d heard the rumors that State Senator Alan Lowenthal was considering a run for Long Beach Mayor in 2010. In fact, we’d passed them along [click here and check out the sixth paragraph] – complete with our own political musical-chairs scenario that had Second District City Councilwoman Suja Lowenthal running for her father-in-law’s senatorial seat and current Mayor Bob Foster running for [...]

Tues | Jan 15 Mayor Bob Foster gives his State of the City address and tells the folks who’ve paid like $100 a plate that we need money. Somebody get on that.
Wed | Jan 16 Alumnus Terry Rhodes donates $1.25 million to Cal State Long Beach saying the lessons he learned at the school helped [...]

Mayor Bob Foster discusses his newest City Council agenda-changing proposal
Announcing new City Council agenda items 12 days before the Council considers them sounds like a good idea–which is how Mayor Bob Foster and Ninth District Councilman Val Lerch, the proposal’s co-signer, both present it.

Set your faces to discuss–for, at least, the city-mandated three minutes during the public comment portion of the Long Beach City Council meeting.
Tomorrow night’s Long Beach City Council meeting is the first viewing of Mayor Bob Foster’s proposal to put all city council agenda items on an agenda 12 days before the council actually discusses [...]

The Long Beach Police Department faces a budget crisis that threatens to reduce critical services, and Fifth District Councilwoman Gerrie Shipske chooses this moment to propose spending more money on DARE, the bogus anti-drug education program aimed at school kids. Shipske proposed Tuesday to fund the program with a tax on all the things [...]

Long Beach City Council changes its policy on public comment

After much discussion and comments from a dozen members of the public–the largest number of audience members to comment on any item on last night’s city council agenda–Long Beach City Council voted 5-3 last night to change, and very likely restrict, the public’s ability to open [...]

State of Downtown: The Downtown Long Beach Associate’s Fourth Annual “State of Downtown” presentation feat CSULB President F. King Alexander, Mayor Bob Foster and more. 11:30am-1:30pm.
HYATT LONG BEACH 200 S Pine Ave, Long Beach 90802. 562.485.3136; downtownlongbeach.org.
Howard Tate: The best Philly soul back now after a 30-year hiatus.  Call for info.
SAFARI SAM’S 5214 W Sunset [...]

Tues | July 17 The Huntington Beach City Council approves a law banning public nudity. The law is designed to combat one resident, Miguel Angelo Ferreira, who officials say was in the habit of standing in his front yard naked. Police Chief Kenneth “Biggie” Small explained that what made Ferreira a nuisance was that he [...]

Tues | July 3 Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster orchestrates the appointment of Long Beach Police Chief Anthony Batts as interim city manager. Batts takes the temporary post from Christine Shippey, who agreed to be squeezed out now because she wants to be back in later. See, Foster was concerned that having Shippey as interim [...]