Bill Grisolia, whose debts and drunk driving issues damaged his campaign for the vacant First District seat on the Long Beach City Council, is dropping out of the race, reports according to a story filed early Monday morning on LBreport.com
Grisolia, a cancer survivor, has a medical issue that prevents him from continuing his campaign, a spokesperson [...]

It’s unofficially been gathering steam for some time, but attorney Evan Braude on Sunday officially began his run for the vacant First District Long Beach City Council seat vacated by his longtime partner, the recently-elected Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal.
As noted on LBReport.com and in the Press-Telegram, Braude–who previously represented the First District from 1986 to 1994–held [...]

Rick Berry may be a familiar face in Long Beach—he’s lived in the first district for 15 years and is a former president of the city’s Community Band—but what most immediately distinguishes him from the six-person crowd running for city council is the man he has hired to manage his campaign.
That would be Randy Terrell, who [...]

Evan Anderson Braude, who represented the First District on the Long Beach City Council for eight years and is the significant other of the woman who just finished representing it for almost as long, announced today that he wants to represent it again.
“After much thought, I have decided to enter the contest for the 1st [...]

Maybe. The attorney previously represented the First District on Long Beach City Council from 1986 to 1994, and as the Press-Telegram’s Paul Eakins reports today, that was before term limits restricting council members to two terms were approved.
(That approval came in 1992, during Braude’s second term.)
Braude, who is in a longtime relationship with First District [...]

With this year’s fourth-ever Cambodian New Year Parade just four days away, the Press-Telegram’s Greg Mellen notes that Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sok An–invited to the parade in December, by a delegation of Long Beach notables which included former councilman Evan Anderson Braude–will not attend.
This is welcome news to protestors in the Cambodian community, whose [...]

Petitioners say “Not the Cambodian deputy prime minister!”
The 2008 Cambodian New Year Parade isn’t until some time in April–so far off that folks in the Mayor’s office say they haven’t even set a date. But already tensions are mounting over plans by Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister Sok An to attend the parade.