If you think you like Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for president better than his Democratic alternative, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), now’s the time for you to prove it.
Well, Wednesday actually. As the Press-Telegram’s Paul Eakins tells us this morning, the Vault 350 will host the “Barack the Vote Concert & Fundraiser” that night, featuring ex-Booker [...]

Remembering when the Press-Telegram was the most important paper in town

Burt Fleischman was a man of perpetual motion and one-track mind—perfect characteristics for a single-copy sales manager, the guy in charge of selling the Press-Telegram’s street edition more than a quarter-century ago. All the dailies used to have a street edition, a paper sold only [...]

If you get around Long Beach a bit, you might have seen Press-Telegram Executive Editor Richard Archbold and his wife Pat–and P-T columnist Shirley Wild–helping judge yesterday’s Haute Dog Easter Parade in Belmont Shore, alongside yours truly.

You may know Paul Oberjuerge as the sports columnist for the San Bernardino Sun or may know him because I kinda ripped him up a while ago for writing, what I thought, was a pretty crappy column about LA Times columnist Christine Daniels in which he said she was “not an attractive woman.”
I took him [...]

This Week: Dean Singleton, Echo Chambers and Sex Offenders
“The prosecution wants a win, the public defender wants an easy out, and the judge wants a clear calendar without the hassles of trial.”
Phil on “IT’S A DELICATE SITUATION: PART II”
“I can believe Dean loves newspapers…..in the same way that a pimp loves his whores.”
W3 on “CITY [...]

(UPDATED AND EXTENDED VERSION OF AN EARLIER POST)
 The Long Beach City Council used harsh words and a unanimous vote against its erstwhile hometown newspaper Tuesday night, resolving to “reevaluate” the hundreds of thousands of dollars it spends with the Press-Telegram every year, now that the paper will be operated by the publisher of the Daily [...]

‘Mr. Press-Telegram’ cries over Wrigley Field while his newspaper is stolen away

ILLUSTRATION by JOE MCGARRY
It was March 1, the morning after the corporate kidnapping that took the Press-Telegram away from Long Beach, and a resident was telephoning The District in distress. She was devastated that MediaNews Group, Inc., had turned over Long Beach’s 110-year-old daily [...]

Long Beach lost its daily newspaper today. The Press-Telegram, a name synonymous with local journalism for 110 years, suffered deep staff cuts and a corporate restructuring that leaves it as little more than a bureau for the Torrance-based Daily Breeze.
MediaNews Group, Inc., the corporate parent of both papers, fired Press-Telegram publisher Dave Kuta, managing editor John Futch and nine newsroom [...]

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 [...]

Vice Mayor Bonnie Lowenthal can stop worrying about what’s left of the Press-Telegram. Or is that start worrying?

BONNIE LOWENTHAL by ALICE RUTHERFORD
As she contemplates a run for the 54th Assembly District next year, should Vice Mayor Bonnie Lowenthal be looking over her shoulder for a Press-Telegram reporter? Was calling the P-T out in a recent [...]