If recent sightings haven’t quenched your desire for all things Laura Richardson, the incumbent congresswoman will be front and center for tomorrow’s 37th Congressional District candidates forum, at 6:30 p.m. at the Signal Hill Community Center, 1780 E. Hill St.
And as the Press-Telegram’s John Canalis reports today, Richardson has taken to pointing out that [...]

Long Beach Memorial Medical Center gets ready to reorganize
In a move aimed at–depending on whom you talk to–either reducing the number of uninsured patients admitted through its emergency room, or improving care to Long Beach residents, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center next month will reclassify a certain number of its general purpose medical beds.
An exact [...]

The Queen Elizabeth 2 sailed into New York for her last visit, before shipping out to Dubai where she’ll become a floating hotel (a flo-tel?).
And way down in the story–around where the New York Times remembers other notable floating hotels–our own Queen Mary pops up.
“The farewell to New York, to be marked by fireworks salutes [...]

Imports through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach dropped “a combined 12.1 percent” last month, according to the Daily Breeze’s Art Marroquin, whose story is also carried in today’s Press-Telegram.
Does that mean you’re not getting a new flat-screen TV for Christmas? Depends.
“Overall, the Port of Los Angeles has experienced a 4.81 percent drop [...]

It’s official: at last night’s Long Beach City Council meeting, the council voted 8-0 to approve restoring Colorado Lagoon–in the process, someday cutting a channel through Marina Vista Park that would reconnect the lagoon with Marine Stadium.
(Bisecting Marina Vista Park will later be subject to another council vote–and to approval from the California Coastal Commission.)
As [...]

Friends and family remember the late Hawleywood’s barber
Justin Lovato’s red Naugahyde barber’s chair at Hawleywood’s Barber Shop on Fourth Street is hung with his smocks and shirts. His station is decorated with cards and flowers. And the French door into Hawleywood’s is papered from the inside with photographs of Lovato taken in happier times.
But Lovato [...]

Last Monday night, city officials took their plans to bisect Marina Vista Park by connecting the Colorado Lagoon and Marine Stadium out to the people–at a packed, sometimes contentious public meeting in an elementary school auditorium in Belmont Shore.
(With rows of uncomfortable seating that were fine when we were in grade school–but now just remind [...]

Remember when registered sex offenders became an issue last winter–around the time we all learned about those registered sex offenders who all lived in the same Alamitos Beach apartment building?
Remember how TV’s Dr. Phil McGraw came to town, (like radio’s John & Ken), and wound up doing a show about the situation?
Remember how neighbors were [...]

Last month’s Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. bankruptcy–just 12 days after the City of Long Beach had spent $19.9 million with the company to purchase a 27-day commercial paper investment–was a shocker for the folks at 333 W. Ocean Boulevard.
But the chairman of the Cal State Long Beach economics department tells the Press-Telegram today that the [...]

These are happy days for the Rose Park Neighborhood Association, comprised of homeowners in the Rose Park Historic District.
The group’s first-ever Restoration Trade Fair Sept. 21 drew more than 500 people. (Proceeds will go toward landscaping at nearby Luther Burbank Elementary School.)
And this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the association will dedicate a [...]