(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 [...]

WHO DO YOU THINK WON THE NIGHT?
A row of men in very fine suits — representatives of the Port of Long Beach, including executive director Richard D. Steinke and Harbor Commissioners Mario Cordero, Dr. Mike Walter and Nick Sramek — sat shoulder-to-shoulder in the third row of the Long Beach City Council chambers last night.
They [...]

Last month, the City of Long Beach burned more hydrocarbons than even the most-traveling salesman. But is there a way for the city to get around that–and help save the environment?

Long Beach City Council members Tonia Reyes Uranga and Bonnie Lowenthal want to run for the California State Assembly’s 54th District seat this year. Before they actually go through with it, however, they’ve got to lose an election.
The candidacies of Lowenthal and Reyes Uranga hinge on the defeat of Proposition 93, the Term-Limit-Tweaking initiative on the [...]

Josh Lowenthal, a thus-far-private citizen from Long Beach’s most-prominent political family, has been contacted by top officials of the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce about running for the Board of Education seat that may soon be vacated by the Chamber’s effort to recall Michael Shane Ellis.
Altogether now: “What th–?!?”
“We sat down with Josh,” confirms Randy Gordon, [...]

FROM LBREPORT.COM:Robert Garcia, who has been positioning himself for a likely run for the Long Beach City Council since he lost his job as an aide to former council member and failed mayoral candidate Frank Colonna in 2006, has been operating a local news website for nearly a year without a Long Beach business license, [...]

Although Long Beach City Councilmember Bonnie Lowenthal has made extensive preparations to run for the California Assembly in 2008, her candidacy ultimately depends upon the result of a February ballot initiative that would loosen term-limit restrictions and allow incumbent Democrat Betty Karnette to run again.
Lowenthal would not challenge Karnette, a fellow Democrat who has represented the 54th Assembly District [...]