Code enforcement debated, smoke detectors praised
If you missed any portion of it, yesterday was unofficially Fire Safety Day at City Hall, as Council members extolled the $5 smoke detector in the morning, then held a special Council meeting, two hours before the regular one, to talk code enforcement.
The impetus for all this, of course, was [...]

Illegal immigration’s bad, m’kay?

So, it’s October 2007 and there’s still no great workable solution–federal, state or local–to illegal immigration.
But thankfully, the Press-Telegram’s recent story about the relocated day laborer center outside the Signal Hill Home Depot gives its editorial writers an excuse to rattle their sabers about illegal immigration for several hundred words.
Not surprisingly, they’re [...]

Ernesto Guerra joined the Army to make a home for his family in America. Two years after his death in Iraq, Ernesto lies in a Mexican cemetery, his mother grieves and his 12-year-old brother is a target of Army recruiters combing the streets of Long Beach
By Rachel Powers
ACCURATE, TIMELY, IN PERSON
When a U.S. Army soldier [...]