Long Beach Vice Mayor Bonnie Lowenthal was all smiles Saturday after receiving 67.3 percent of the vote at the Democratic Party’s Pre-Primary Endorsement Conference. But Councilwoman Tonia Reyes Uranga escaped as the short-term survivor by keeping Lowenthal from getting the 70 percent needed to qualify for the party’s official backing in their race for the [...]

Warren Furutani, the Democratic Party’s now-officially endorsed candidate for Laura Richardson’s vacant 55th Assembly District seat, has what he admits may be a cheeky plan to improve air quality–if he’s elected, and if they let him.