Literary superhero Ray Bradbury stands up for threatened Main Library, as the vote to keep it open approaches
With a number of our public officials warming to the notion of keeping Main Library open until real, actual plans can be made for its demise, famed science fiction author Ray Bradbury made what could have been a [...]

And other solutions to the high cost of pensions, and the city’s financial straits
Maybe it was the chicken in a red-wine reduction talking, but a packed room of business owners this afternoon got a handful of dire predictions at the East Anaheim Street Business Alliance’s (EASBA) annual luncheon.

We told you last year that Long Beach Museum of Art wasn’t doing all that well paying off the $3 million construction bond floated in 1999 to pay for its awesome new gallery space.
Specifically, I wrote then that LBMA was making interest-only payments, and that the revenue from those electronic freeway billboards–the ones they haven’t [...]

Residents worry about city plans to build a homeless center
Last night’s 8-1 Long Beach City Council vote to build a police substation at the Schroeder Hall U.S. Army Reserve Center at Willow Street and Grand Avenue, when that becomes available in 2011–and to also build a homeless services center across the street–caught locals almost completely [...]