Posts Tagged ‘Budget Oversight Committee’

DON’T LIVE SO LONG

June 3, 2008

And other solutions to the high cost of pensions, and the city’s financial straits
Maybe it was the chicken in a red-wine reduction talking, but a packed room of business owners this afternoon got a handful of dire predictions at the East Anaheim Street Business Alliance’s (EASBA) annual luncheon.

THE COST OF DOING (APRIL 8 ELECTION) BUSINESS

March 31, 2008

Ever wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night, wondering how much this spring’s spate of Long Beach City Council and Long Beach Unified school board elections will cost us?  Maybe you should.

CITY GRAPPLES WITH ART MUSEUM DEBT

March 26, 2008

We told you last year that Long Beach Museum of Art wasn’t doing all that well paying off the $3 million construction bond floated in 1999 to pay for its awesome new gallery space.
Specifically, I wrote then that LBMA was making interest-only payments, and that the revenue from those electronic freeway billboards–the ones they haven’t [...]

 

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