Snoop Dogg talks to Councilman Dee Andrews about giving back to Long Beach
He wasn’t there to bemoan the possible loss of our concretinous Main Library if it closes due to budget cuts, but rapper-actor-football coach Snoop Dogg spent more than two hours Friday in the library’s Admiral Room, considering ways to give back to Long [...]

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THE AMERICAN V-8 ENGINE: IT’S OVER AGAIN

January 16, 2008

News from the Detroit Auto Show: they want their m.p.g.
The Detroit Auto Show continues, and the New York Times reports that the big American automakers–that’d be General Motors, Ford and Chrysler–are once again backing away from the once-mighty V-8 engine.

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