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 [...]

City’s daily paper looks askance at councilwoman’s idea
In this morning’s Press-Telegram, staff writer Paul Eakins reports on Councilwoman Gerrie Schipske’s proposal which she’ll make to tomorrow night’s council meeting–the revolutionary idea that the city ask the Port of Long Beach for a bigger percentage of its yearly profits.

Bill Pearl of LBReport.com breaks the news of a ballot proposal by Council member Gerrie Schipske – agendized for the Jan 22 council meeting — that would revolutionize the financial relationship between the City of Long Beach and the Port of Long Beach.
Citizens have had to bear ever-worsening health and quality-of-life consequences of the Port — which spews deadly air and [...]

Gerrie Schipske, Long Beach’s bloggin’ councilwoman, presents her predictions for 2008, and most of them sound pretty probable — even that part about Bill Pearl of LBreport.com getting to most of the best local stories first … although watch out for the resourceful Theo Douglas. I’m warning you.