If you ask some people about the first audit the city did of the Long Beach Museum of Art, they say the museum got off easy because the 2006 audit came out the same night that then-Second District Councilman Dan Baker abruptly resigned.
But really, tonight’s second audit (the third one comes next month) didn’t go [...]

This week a new Best Buy opens at Marina Pacifica Mall, and ground-breaking is celebrated for a new Residence Inn down by the Queen Mary. How good is that?  Not as good as it could–should–have been, and not as good as city officials are trying to make it seem. Not since the City Council voted to give away millions of [...]

… BUT ALSO THE TRUTHS THE PAPER’S EDITORIAL WRITERS NEVER TOLD
Bill Pearl of LBReport.com breaks down, sentence by sentence, an editorial by the Press-Telegram that — depending on what you think of Long Beach’s once-great daily in these, its clearly diminished days — was either a pack of despicably calculated lies or a pathetic inability [...]

Tues | Jan 15 Mayor Bob Foster gives his State of the City address and tells the folks who’ve paid like $100 a plate that we need money. Somebody get on that.
Wed | Jan 16 Alumnus Terry Rhodes donates $1.25 million to Cal State Long Beach saying the lessons he learned at the school helped [...]

WHO DO YOU THINK WON THE NIGHT?
A row of men in very fine suits — representatives of the Port of Long Beach, including executive director Richard D. Steinke and Harbor Commissioners Mario Cordero, Dr. Mike Walter and Nick Sramek — sat shoulder-to-shoulder in the third row of the Long Beach City Council chambers last night.
They [...]

I’m an idiot.
Last week, I gushed about how well this city’s government worked, how sensitive and in touch it was with the wishes of its residents. Yeah, well, that was a bunch of crap because apparently city officials are once again engaged in that behavoir where they say something and that something turns out not [...]

Live bands are headed for the Puka Bar, the Wrigley area’s noted Tiki-style bar at 710 W. Willow St.–including jazz and lounge combos.
But they’ll arrive over the objections of a half-dozen nearby residents, who told Long Beach City Council Tuesday night that the bar is a difficult neighbor even when its visitors are well-behaved.

For a few days there I couldn’t get the theme song of the www.SoLongDeLong.com web site — a pitch-perfect cover of the Beach Boys with lyrics that lay out the transgressions of Third District Councilmember Gary DeLong — out of my head. It was kinda crazymaking, albeit in the best possible way.
The joke has worn [...]

Six of Long Beach’s nine City Council members got out of bed early this morning to attend the Breakwater Forum, a public update and discussion of the city’s $100,000 investigation into a possible breakwater configuration. The recurring theme was a growing realization of how massive a task Long Beach is undertaking. The word “unprecedented” was used a lot.
Perhaps just [...]

THIS JUST IN (the Press-Telegram, that is): “Critics of Councilman Gary DeLong have launched a Web site that implies a recall vote could be in the making.”
Another one?
No, the same one (www.solongdelong.com) that The District revealed in its Writing Shotgun column last Saturday and that LBreport.com followed with quotes from DeLong (and journalistically responsible props to The [...]