Our first-ever list of Long Beach’s scariest!
In Long Beach, there’s the scary—ghosts on the Queen Mary, Igor’s Alley and the unfettered power of people like Chris Pook—and the really scary—Measure I, the parking lots at any of our Trader Joe’s outposts and, 30 days out of 31, Colorado Lagoon. So, while it wasn’t easy for [...]

Harbor Commissioner Jim Hankla drops pursuit of separate breakwater study

PHOTO COURTESY THE PORT OF LONG BEACH
Harbor Commissioner Jim Hankla apparently has dropped his attempted end run around the Long Beach City Council and promised to keep his hands off while a city-contracted engineering firm proceeds through a complete study of the Long Beach Breakwater.
“It was [...]

Harbor Commissioner Jim Hankla has apparently dropped his attempted end run around the Long Beach City Council and promised to keep his hands off while a city-contracted engineering firm conducts a thorough study of the Long Beach Breakwater.
“It was a rogue moment, which I’m confident won’t be repeated,” chuckles Patrick O’Donnell, Fourth District council member, [...]

Rumors of a backroom deal on the breakwater turn out to be true. No word yet on whether the room was smoke-filled, badly lit or included a kid named ‘Spider’ bringing in drinks

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Rumor had it that Harbor Commission President Jim Hankla—acting on a tip from Third District Councilman Gary [...]

Press-Telegram sportswriter Doug Krikorian is stunned and disgusted that Long Beach’s elected officials plan to eliminate the Police Athletic League (PAL) program with disadvantaged youth as part of a belt-tightening budget. But once Dougie gets started, he just can’t stop—and during the course of today’s column he sprays word-bullets into all corners of the city’s governing structure. But he [...]

A small rules change means the man who helped create the city’s deficit will remain port boss

PHOTO COURTESY of THE PORT OF LONG BEACH
Jim Hankla has just become president of the Harbor Commission again, which isn’t supposed to be a big deal, and which most certainly would not be, except for the fact that nothing [...]

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, [...]