Just when you thought Congressional Rep. Laura Richardson (D-efault) was settling into a long, boring career in Washington, the Los Angeles Times‘ Steve Lopez tells us that it ain’t so. She’s still racking up more bills, just on other people’s money.
This time, as Lopez reports, Richardson managed to get herself and her entire staff an [...]

In case you haven’t heard, our own Congressional Rep. Laura Richardson (D-escent) is now under investigation.
Per the Press-Telegram, LBReport.com, Politico.com, and our buds at LAObserved.com, the House Ethics Committee voted unanimously Thursday to look into whether all was on the up-and-up when the Congresswoman got her Sacramento house returned to her after it was sold [...]

In case you missed it, LBReport.com’s Bill Pearl noted Saturday that Heineken USA has moved its western regional headquarters to Long Beach—consolidating outposts in Irvine and El Segundo, and bringing about 40 jobs here.
I’ll drink to that; if this happens nine more times with different companies, well, that’d be 400 jobs in Long Beach, wouldn’t [...]

Our elusive Congressional Rep. Laura Richardson (D-ormant), whose storied political career thus far includes defaulting several times on her mortgages–and losing her Sacramento house to foreclosure, before mysteriously regaining it and then letting it languish for a time in extreme disrepair–seems to be making nice with the Press-Telegram editorial board. Or maybe it’s vice [...]

As reported by the Los Angeles Times‘ Jeff Gottlieb this morning, and by The Associated Press, in the Press-Telegram, Congressional Rep. Laura Richardson’s vacant Sacramento house is now the subject of an investigation by the newly-minted Office of Congressional Ethics.
“The independent Office of Congressional Ethics was created last year to answer critics who said the [...]

The Los Angeles Times‘ man in Long Beach, reporter Louis Sahagun, weighs in on Thursday’s breakwater study with his own story, and a downright picturesque lede.
“Just off downtown Long Beach, where freighters queue up to unload much of the nation’s imported goods, a long wall of rock rises from the waves, encrusted with mussels and [...]

Audit of contract bidding process expected in late July or early August
It hasn’t become big news yet because it’s not finished, but the office of City Auditor Laura Doud–which recently audited the Long Beach Museum of Art–is now auditing the Department of Parks, Recreation and Marine. And why is that?

The city auditor’s office salutes our longest-serving leader. You have no idea
It’s tough to praise famous Long Beach city auditors. There are 11, but until Tuesday, who could name them? Ira S. Hatch, anybody? What about Harvey Durkee? And what about Myrtelle L. Gunsul?
Gunsul, commemorated at a celebration Tuesday marking the centennial of the auditor’s [...]

As John Canalis reports in today’s Press-Telegram, the question of whether Main Library will actually close–as recommended by City Manager Pat West and Mayor Bob Foster in the proposed Fiscal Year 2008-2009 budget, released Friday–is far from resolved.
For one thing, Long Beach City Council hasn’t even begun debating the budget yet–and ultimately, the Council is [...]

Can you beat this? More unpaid bills for Congresswoman Laura Richardson (D-Long Beach), and this time they’re big ones.
As reported by Capitol Weekly’s Anthony York (and tipped here locally by Kevin Roderick’s LAObserved.com), Richardson’s Sacramento house–which she purchased in January 2007, shortly after being elected to State Assembly–has been foreclosed on.
Why? Turns out Richardson, [...]