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LB vocational school goes down in bankruptcy filing
Six weeks ago, the P-T’s Joe Segura reported the closure of a Long Beach helicopter school that stranded 150 students. The bankruptcy crash-landing of Silver State Helicopters (I clicked on the company’s website, but damn if I could open it) made headlines in Nevada (where the company is [...]

Long Beach Wilson High’s Ruth Mohr-Silofau receives the Teacher of the Year award from the California Assn. for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (two years tap, three years jazz.) Mohr-Silofau has been a teacher at Wilson for 21 years and is noted for her enthusiasm and high energy approach to fitness. That approach includes [...]

I don’t care what you claim as your party affiliation–Democrat, Republican, Progressive Wicken–you had to feel sorry for John McCain Wednesday. The Republican nominee for President was forced to go to the White House to accept the endorsement of George W. Bush, which is sort of like getting an endorsement from the guy who invented [...]

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Please tell me I’m not the only one who heard Press-Telegram Pretend Editor Rich Archbold say today on KFWB that drastically cutting staff and shifting virtually all significant decision-making power to the management of the South Bay Daily Breeze, did not threaten the paper’s survival but, was in fact, making the paper “stronger!” He said that. [...]

First Fingerprints hip-hop in-store ever with Pigeon John, Quannum signee (Blackalicious, Lyrics Born) and member of L.A. Symphony, with a set also to be recorded live for surely cool future purposes.

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City wants to know who among us embodies the spirit of America’s patron saint  
From a city press release:
The City of Long Beach is requesting nominations for the First Annual 2008 Martin Luther King Jr. Peacemaker Award.
Two award recipients (one adult and one youth) will be honored in January 2008 during Peace Week —a week-long celebration [...]

If you wonder about the role of faith in politics, visit the comments section of my post
on Mitt Romney’s coming speech.