More bad news from MediaNews Group, the Colorado-based conglomerate that owns the Long Beach Press-Telegram and the Daily Breeze in Torrance.
LAObserved.com posts a memo from Breeze Executive Editor Phillip Sanfield saying the
newspaper’s four sections will be abbreviated to two on Monday and Tuesdays beginning next week. (It’s there; just scroll down the page a bit.)
And [...]

Long Beach police still don’t have a motive in the deaths of five people whose bodies were discovered early Sunday in a homeless encampment near the Santa Fe Avenue offramp from the southbound San Diego (405) Freeway.
But details are trickling out about some of the victims.

After an anonymous man called police from a pay phone Sunday morning, Long Beach police officers discovered five people had been shot to death in a homeless encampment near the Santa Fe Avenue offramp to the San Diego (405) Freeway.
The Press-Telegram’s story is here, the Los Angeles Times story is here. And yes, police would [...]

Remember former Long Beach City Manager Henry Taboada? Of course you do.
Well, since leaving our city’s top post, he’s landed in Rossmoor, where he’s general manager of the Rossmoor Community Services District.
So far so good. Except that as Press-Telegram reporter Joe Segura points out, Taboada is also providing “campaign services” to the pro-Measure U folks, [...]

Maybe. The attorney previously represented the First District on Long Beach City Council from 1986 to 1994, and as the Press-Telegram’s Paul Eakins reports today, that was before term limits restricting council members to two terms were approved.
(That approval came in 1992, during Braude’s second term.)
Braude, who is in a longtime relationship with First District [...]

Morry’s of Naples toasts its 70th anniversary with a pin-up contest

Harkening back to the days of Betty Grable and Brown & Bigelow, and its own 1938 beginnings, Morry’s of Naples is hosting the Miss Morry’s Vintage Pin Up Contest. Results will be determined by voting on the Internet–which, it should be noted, didn’t exist in [...]

It’s the last Tuesday of the month, and you know what that means: time for Beer & Politics–or, if you must have the rallying cry now, time to: drink beer, talk politics, and drink beer.
Or just listen. And have a sarsaparilla. (Kidding–no one knows what that is.) This month’s guest is Cal State Long Beach [...]

Yep. Los Angeles Times reporter Mark Medina takes a crack at Mayor Bob Foster’s muchly-talked about parcel tax in this morning’s paper.
“Foster has tried bolstering support this fall for Measure I, a 35-year $120 parcel tax for all residential and business properties. Stacey Ann Fong Toda, Foster’s deputy chief of staff, said the mayor he [...]

This has been a rough week in journalism, thanks in no small part to our main man Dean Singleton, who owns the Press-Telegram, and the Daily Breeze in Torrance.

As the Press-Telegram’s Tracy Manzer reports this morning, Long Beach police are asking the public for help finding four young men “believed responsible” in the savage beating and robbing of a 55-year-old man in downtown Long Beach, in the early morning hours of Sept. 19.
“The attack on the victim was so savage that all the [...]