Cal State Long Beach undergrads pledge to be counted this spring
It’s Census time, and as if to underscore the fact that each one of us is worth about $2,900 in federal funding—if we’re counted—Cal State Long Beach students got all inky recently to prove that they’re in the know.

University Art Museum Director Chris Scoates keeps looking ahead

PHOTO by JEFFREY R. GOULD
We’re midway through an interview, when University Art Museum Director Chris Scoates makes the sort of keen pronouncement that reporters yearn to hear.
“What we’re doing now won’t be interesting in five years,” Scoates says. “We have to keep pace with what’s happening. I [...]

Cal State Long Beach’s Daily 49er newspaper—which I wrote for when earning my Bachelor’s in Journalism at CSULB—turns 60 years old this semester, and will mark the anniversary with two events Nov. 13.
That’s next Friday. Friday the 13th.
The newspaper will host an open house that day in its newsroom from 12-1:30 p.m. (where I never [...]

Another school year means crowded public buses on Seventh Street, where Cal State Long Beach students ride free

Unless you house and feed one, you may not have seen them for months; but every year about this time, hordes of young people are out on the streets again, going back to school.
Roads and highways are choked, [...]

Is it a sign of the times or a choose-your-own-adventure gone wrong?

PHOTO by JENNY STOCKDALE
The paid-for 2002 Mitsubishi Lancer that Derrick drives to his restaurant job four times a week hasn’t aged well. Its silver exterior is peeling and covered with that notorious Long Beach sludge. The engine has a slight death rattle.
The interior isn’t [...]

Cal State Long Beach engineering students’ 13th rocket makes history—and a hard landing

PHOTO by MIGUEL PASCUAL
FEB. 21 0730 HOURS
We’re somewhere north of Mojave when fear descends on Highway 14: a nagging, sinking feeling that maybe a ’95 Civic with 123,000 miles on the clock and a set of five-year-old Pirellis isn’t meant to do 95 [...]

If you were born the year that they dreamed up the idea for an Art Exchange downtown–and you were a guy–your voice would be changing, if it hadn’t already.
You’d be breaking out, looking at dames, thinking about driving–maybe even growing a cheesy mustache. You’d be turning 15 this year–that’s how long the Art Exchange concept [...]

In the first 90 minutes of its first meeting this month, the city Redevelopment Agency board tackled more projects than it’s seen in … well, at least a month.
“This is what happens when you leave us alone for a month and we don’t have to have a meeting in January,” joked RDA Assistant Executive Director [...]

Perhaps.
As the Press-Telegram’s Karen Robes Meeks writes this morning, the Redevelopment Agency board on Monday will consider two possibilities for a so-called downtown Arts Exchange–an idea now 15 years in the works.
Both involve the so-called Broadway Block project–which last we heard, may not even have a developer–and, by association, the former Acres of Books building.
Apparently, [...]

Pioneering Long Beach physician Dr. Robert Gumbiner has died of prostate cancer, according to LBPost.com, the Press-Telegram and LBReport.com.
“Initially making his career as a physician, Dr. Gumbiner founded one of the first HMOs and operated it for 35 years until leaving in 1996,” LBPost’s Managing Editor Ryan ZumMallen writes.

In November of that very same year, [...]