Robert Garcia and Shaun Lumachi, important players in downtown Long Beach politics who have operated the for-profit website LBPost.com for about a year, finally have a Long Beach business license, according to a story posted today by Bill Pearl on LBReport.com
It was a week ago (Dec. 21) that Pearl broke the story that LBPost.com had been [...]

Doug Krikorian has another good cry over the lack of a National Football League franchise in the Los Angeles area today, and as he sobs himself to sleep the Press-Telegram sports columnist again goes so far as to dream of placing a team in Long Beach, with a stadium next to the Queen Mary. Doug is getting old.
No, I don’t [...]

A lot of folks post interesting comments on our website, both in response to–and, in some cases updating–our stories.
Yesterday afternoon, we noticed a comment from someone called Former Journo, in response to Dave Wielenga’s recent Nice Guy Finishes, At Last.

Until this week, my most enduring memory of Dan Fogelberg was how hunky my first girlfriend thought he was. From now on, of course, I’ll have an even-more-enduringer one: how dead he is. Still, there was more to the man — to the musician — than that, and although I’ve been feeling somehow obligated to sort out Fogelberg’s place in wider pop history [...]

Although Long Beach City Councilmember Bonnie Lowenthal has made extensive preparations to run for the California Assembly in 2008, her candidacy ultimately depends upon the result of a February ballot initiative that would loosen term-limit restrictions and allow incumbent Democrat Betty Karnette to run again.
Lowenthal would not challenge Karnette, a fellow Democrat who has represented the 54th Assembly District [...]

WHO’S BEHIND THE PLAN TO BUILD A HOME DEPOT ON THE WETLANDS?
Just to underscore a point that might go otherwise unnoticed, here’s the last line in Dave Wielenga’s fast-break story on the Home Depot project:
“Chris Pook has been retained by Home Depot to promote the project.”
Thanks to Dave, longtime District Weekly readers are already [...]

TENTATIVE RULING SHOOTS DOWN CITY COUNCIL’S CONTROVERSIAL APPROVAL IN 2006
A Superior Court judge on Tuesday invalidated the controversial Environmental Impact Report (EIR) that the Long Beach City Council had approved for a Home Depot and retail project on the edge of the Los Cerritos Wetlands. The tentative ruling ordered that all work on the proposed [...]

Don’t judge the Long Beach Post’s question-and-answer session with Third District City Councilman Gary DeLong by the short-and-schmoozy introduction … or even its rather softball questions. After interviewer Robert Garcia finishes pointing out that he and DeLong like the same restaurants, his easy inquiries actually evoke some revealing answers. Give it a read by [clicking here].   Then tell us what you think.

A lawsuit against the City of Long Beach over its approval of a Home Depot and retail complex on the edge of the Los Cerritos Wetlands is being heard today in Norwalk Superior Court.
The suit was filed jointly by the University Park Estates Homeowners Association and the Los Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust. It charges that the [...]

Two weeks after the Long Beach City Council took away the public’s right to pull items from its Consent Calendar Agenda — typically, a couple dozen issues supposedly so routine that they can be grouped together and approved with one vote — Bill Pearl of LBreport.com has discovered that a major spending provision has been quietly [...]