It’s official, as first tipped yesterday by a Los Angeles Times blog, the California Heights Neighborhood Association is canceling this year’s tour of homes in the historic district, which would have been its 12th edition.
It’s sad news for those of us in love with the area’s immaculately-restored vintage Spanish-style, Tudor, and California bungalow houses–to say [...]

St. Mary Medical Center sues city–or does it?
Interesting Press-Telegram piece over the weekend. Apparently Catholic Healthcare West, the parent corporation of St. Mary Medical Center, has three separate breach-of-contract lawsuits going against the City of Long Beach.

Thanks mostly to the Los Angeles County Tax Assessor’s office–bringers of property tax–it’s difficult to be a landowner this time of year.
But the City of Long Beach, which owns the land under the Long Beach Yacht Club, finds itself in curious circumstances for an entirely different reason: labor negotiations at the Club, one of the [...]