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 [...]

Councilwoman Gerrie Schipske’s ‘Rosie the Riveter’ reveals a long-gone Long Beach

PHOTO COURTESY OF ARCADIA PUBLISHING
There’s no who’s who of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration, no declassified maps of Allied supply routes—and unlike in, say, William Shirer’s Berlin Diary, you can’t actually hear the bombs falling in Poland as you read Rosie the Riveter in Long [...]

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 [...]

Huntington Beach Mayor Debbie Cook’s just-announced candidacy for Dana Rohrabacher’s 46th District seat in Congress could translate into some long-awaited movement for the Long Beach Breakwater.
“I was one of the original supporters of the effort to reconfigure the breakwater,” says Cook, who has distinguished herself as a practical environmentalist during two terms on the Huntington [...]

Everyone agrees the Port of Long Beach is key to the city’s budget problems. Now it’s just a question of who will get the credit

PHOTO by RUSS ROCA
It’s only a matter of time until the Long Beach City Council embraces an idea just presented by Fifth District representative Gerrie Schipske—a plan that would relieve Long [...]

… 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 [...]

The City Council approves a bio-diesel study, turns down a bunker fuel tax

It was 12:45 p.m. yesterday, a day which turned out to be all about diesel.
First District Councilwoman Bonnie Lowenthal had 15 minutes before her next meeting and she was hungry, so we went to Smooth’s Bar and Grill–but not to eat.

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 [...]

The Press-Telegram’s Kristopher Hanson checks in on Council member Gerrie Schipske’s proposal that Long Beach get a greater portion of Port of Long Beach profits – and does the early foot soldiering for the Port’s strategy for spinning against it – in his On The Waterfront column today.
Hanson calls Schipske’s proposal “just the latest City Hall grab at the Harbor Department.” He points out that [...]

Two of the five dynamic budget-related items that Fifth District Council member Gerrie Schipske has agendized for tonight’s City Council meeting — come on out; the fun starts at 5 p.m. — boil down to a question that few local politicians have the courage to ask: Why can’t the Port of Long Beach help solve some of the [...]