Where in the world is Congressional Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach)?
Well, thanks for asking, and we don’t know how to tell you this, but we know you’d want us to be the ones to tell you that last night, Rohrabacher wasn’t in Long Beach. (Oh, don’t act so surprised!)
The incumbent congressman–who divides our city with [...]

A sickly shade of green
Grim environmental news from all over. Arctic ice is melting ever faster. 2007 is on track to become the second hottest year on record, despite natural phenomena that should be cooling the atmosphere. And the U.S. is reportedly blocking progress at the Bali climate conference. Or:
The polar ice melts
U.S. cold-shoulders Bali
The [...]

The illustrative and infinite Blog of Unnecessary Quotations Marks posts the following photo of a note in an allegedly local restaurant:

I want to see this thing in person. Anyone know where this is?? If so, let’s go chill and drink some ZTF smoothies or something?!?!?

State’s water allotment to Long Beach dries up
If you like water–as many of us do–you’d better start building a rain barrel, or digging a hole in the sand like that woman in the movie about the dunes, “Woman in Dunes.”
The state Department of Water Resources has announced that in 2008, Long Beach will get just [...]

Global warming with a side broccoli
The Sydney Morning Herald picks up a New York Times story on the happier side of global warming. Turns out, the effects of the increase in temperatures that are melting Greenland’s ice are showing up in the island’s shopping carts: “A supermarket is stocking locally grown cauliflower, broccoli and cabbage [...]

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