The City Council’s overzealous approval in 2006 of a backassward environmental impact report (EIR) for a proposed Home Depot design center on the edge of the Los Cerritos Wetlands–a document that was ultimately rejected for its many inadequacies by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge in February of this year–may have saved Long Beach from [...]

WHO’S BEHIND THE PLAN TO BUILD A HOME DEPOT ON THE WETLANDS?
Just to underscore a point that might go otherwise unnoticed, here’s the last line in Dave Wielenga’s fast-break story on the Home Depot project:
“Chris Pook has been retained by Home Depot to promote the project.”
Thanks to Dave, longtime District Weekly readers are already [...]

TENTATIVE RULING SHOOTS DOWN CITY COUNCIL’S CONTROVERSIAL APPROVAL IN 2006
A Superior Court judge on Tuesday invalidated the controversial Environmental Impact Report (EIR) that the Long Beach City Council had approved for a Home Depot and retail project on the edge of the Los Cerritos Wetlands. The tentative ruling ordered that all work on the proposed [...]

A lawsuit against the City of Long Beach over its approval of a Home Depot and retail complex on the edge of the Los Cerritos Wetlands is being heard today in Norwalk Superior Court.
The suit was filed jointly by the University Park Estates Homeowners Association and the Los Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust. It charges that the [...]

To music and lyrics played in a dead-on impersonation of the Beach Boys, a brand new website — www.solongdelong.com — is advocating the recall of Long Beach Third District City Councilmember Gary DeLong.
“Gary, Gary What Went Wrong?” asks the song in its high harmonic opening vocals, backed by the twang and rumble of classic 1960s [...]

Illegal immigration’s bad, m’kay?

So, it’s October 2007 and there’s still no great workable solution–federal, state or local–to illegal immigration.
But thankfully, the Press-Telegram’s recent story about the relocated day laborer center outside the Signal Hill Home Depot gives its editorial writers an excuse to rattle their sabers about illegal immigration for several hundred words.
Not surprisingly, they’re [...]

Trailers on the street
No offense to the Press-Telegram’s Paul Eakins–but, really, someone kill me if I ever read another P-T Long Beach City Council story that leads with an item about parking trailers on the street. It’s not a badly executed story–and, yes, there are streets in Long Beach, and some people must park trailers [...]

The state agency charged with protecting California’s beaches is ready to savage Long Beach’s last wetlands for a much-needed Home Depot. Don’t look to city officials for help.

PHOTO by RUSS ROCA
The fate of Long Beach’s last expanse of salvageable wetlands will be at stake when the California Coastal Commission meets next week, and the bad [...]