As the Aquarium of the Pacific celebrates 10 years of operations, former Harbor Commissioner Joel Friedland still smells something fishy

PHOTO by RUSS ROCA
The better part of 10 years has passed, and I’m not sure I’ve got the right number anymore, but I know it’s Joel Friedland the instant he answers the telephone. That flat, clipped, [...]

Chanting slogans and carrying signs — most of them critical of Mayor Bob Foster – an assortment of public health organizations and community activists  marched for an hour outside Long Beach City Hall Tuesday afternoon, complaining that a new Port of Long Beach (POLB) policy unfairly places the burden of reducing air pollution on the low-incomes of independent truckers.
When they [...]

Keeping a promise he made to the Long Beach City Council last month, Harbor Commissioner President Mario Cordero will ask the Port of Long Beach on Monday to contribute $50,000 toward a so-called reconnaissance study of the Breakwater—an examination of the cost-effectiveness of reconfiguring the rock wall that blocks waves from the local shoreline.
Cordero stood [...]