This Week: Learjets, Dinosaur Flatulence and Bake Sales
Tues | JUN 3 City Manager Pat West responds to a projected $17 million city budget deficit—enough to fund four more Lobstergates, buy out six more Acres of Books or purchase 31 homes for Congresswoman Laura Richardson—by promising to encourage city employees not to live as long. Control [...]

This Week: Manhole Covers, Disappointed Evilists and Handjobs in the Bushes
Tues | MAY 6 Bad news for beer bums when Joe Jost’s drops Pabst from the roster because of cost. Edging out Listerine and Pruno as a replacement is Busch, which has slightly lower alcohol content and dramatically lower poser appeal. (High Life will also [...]

Microsoft CEO Bill Gates had a conversation with Long Beach’s kinda-sorta congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Misfortune) in Washington, D.C., today, and it was as much of a mismatch as you’d expect.
Gates was on Capitol Hill pleading for reform of the H-1B visa program that Microsoft and other companies use to hire foreign workers in the United [...]

For the right to represent Long Beach in Congress, HB Mayor Debbie Cook says she’s ready to take on Rohrabacher the invisible

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY
The joggers and dog-walkers from nearby McMansions are doing their daily laps around the golfers at Recreation Park, and Debbie Cook seems to fit right in as she arrives at the [...]

Huntington Beach Mayor Debbie Cook’s just-announced candidacy for Dana Rohrabacher’s 46th District seat in Congress could translate into some long-awaited movement for the Long Beach Breakwater.
“I was one of the original supporters of the effort to reconfigure the breakwater,” says Cook, who has distinguished herself as a practical environmentalist during two terms on the Huntington [...]

Back to where we started…
Happy New Year! Here’s your recap:
In 2005, the city of Long Beach asked for a $100,000 federal appropriation to fund a reconnaissance study that would determine the cost-effectiveness of reconfiguring the Long Beach Breakwater — that two-mile wall of boulders capping the city’s coast and retaining swirley toilet water courtesy of [...]

Update: The guilty pleas are in
OC Weekly’s Scott Moxley has updated his story on Jeffrey Ray Nielsen, Orange County conservative activist, associate of Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, and now, convicted child molester.
In open court, a somber Nielsen, who has extensive personal ties to Congressman Dana Rohrabacher and Orange County Republican Party boss Scott Baugh, gave Superior [...]

Report: Associate of Congressman Dana Rohrabacher to plead guilty to sex crimes
Will Swaim and Rachel Powers are doing a fine job of covering the latest local developments in the Catholic Church’s pedophilia scandal. But in the interest of fairness, I’d like to point out that it’s not just priests who act on these illegal [...]

Six of Long Beach’s nine City Council members got out of bed early this morning to attend the Breakwater Forum, a public update and discussion of the city’s $100,000 investigation into a possible breakwater configuration. The recurring theme was a growing realization of how massive a task Long Beach is undertaking. The word “unprecedented” was used a lot.
Perhaps just [...]

Rohrabacher’s hero
Justice is usually depicted as a figure wearing a blindfold. Who else wears a blindfold? Prisoners put up against a wall to be shot. Coincidence?
The chances of any Blackwater gunman being held accountable for shooting up Iraqi civilians just went from incredibly slim to vanishingly small. The Associated Press reports: