The City Council’s overzealous approval in 2006 of a backassward environmental impact report (EIR) for a proposed Home Depot design center on the edge of the Los Cerritos Wetlands–a document that was ultimately rejected for its many inadequacies by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge in February of this year–may have saved Long Beach from [...]

Calling Michael Shane Ellis a good-for-nothing, drinking-and-driving, hitting-and-running, all-around no account member of the Long Beach school board is simply not right. Not anymore. Not the good-for-nothing part, anyway.
A month after the re-election of two school board incumbents supported by the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce, the organization’s CEO and president acknowledges that Ellis’s [...]

Electioneering always looks like more fun in the movies–and it’s never looked better than in this 1940 sequence from Paramount Pictures’ Preston Sturges-directed “The Great McGinty.”
Preston Sturges? He’s the guy who brought you “The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek,” and of course “Sullivan’s Travels”–this last, the tale of a noted comedy director who has to be [...]

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 [...]

Pre-primary endorsement conference reveals extensive framework of alliances tied to powerful LB political family

In a not-quite-overwhelming-enough display of support, Long Beach Vice Mayor Bonnie Lowenthal received 67.3 percent of the vote at the Democratic Party’s Pre-Primary Endorsement Conference on Saturday—two votes shy of the 70 percent she needed for the party’s official backing in her [...]

Long Beach Vice Mayor Bonnie Lowenthal was all smiles Saturday after receiving 67.3 percent of the vote at the Democratic Party’s Pre-Primary Endorsement Conference. But Councilwoman Tonia Reyes Uranga escaped as the short-term survivor by keeping Lowenthal from getting the 70 percent needed to qualify for the party’s official backing in their race for the [...]

(UPDATED AND EXTENDED VERSION OF AN EARLIER POST)
 The Long Beach City Council used harsh words and a unanimous vote against its erstwhile hometown newspaper Tuesday night, resolving to “reevaluate” the hundreds of thousands of dollars it spends with the Press-Telegram every year, now that the paper will be operated by the publisher of the Daily [...]

… BUT ALSO THE TRUTHS THE PAPER’S EDITORIAL WRITERS NEVER TOLD
Bill Pearl of LBReport.com breaks down, sentence by sentence, an editorial by the Press-Telegram that — depending on what you think of Long Beach’s once-great daily in these, its clearly diminished days — was either a pack of despicably calculated lies or a pathetic inability [...]

The City Council approves a bio-diesel study, turns down a bunker fuel tax

It was 12:45 p.m. yesterday, a day which turned out to be all about diesel.
First District Councilwoman Bonnie Lowenthal had 15 minutes before her next meeting and she was hungry, so we went to Smooth’s Bar and Grill–but not to eat.

As City Council members Tonia Reyes Uranga and Bonnie Lowenthal prepare to run for State Assembly, only one thing remains in their way: Prop. 93

BONNIE LOWENTHAL by ALICE RUTHERFORD
Long Beach City Council members Tonia Reyes Uranga and Bonnie Lowenthal are preparing to run against each other for the California state Assembly’s 54th District seat later [...]