Wondering what good transpired in the City of Long Beach this year?
Well, wonder no more. City Manager Pat West tells the Press-Telegram’s Joe Segura what got done in 2009.
Check it out.

F.KING GREATEST NAME: F. KING ALEXANDER That would be F. King Alexander, president of California State University Long Beach, who draws a double-take every time he is introduced, signs his name, hands out a business card or gets any kind of mention in the press. That’s a lot. Through it all, F. King invariably remains [...]

Decision is the only time the wetlands are discussed during closed session
Long Beach City Council voted 6-3 Tuesday night in closed session against releasing all city documents relevant to the California Public Records Act (CAPRA) request by resident Thomas Marchese regarding the controversial swap of city land for Los Cerritos Wetlands-area property.

A poll of most members of the Long Beach City Council by Press-Telegram reporters Joe Segura and Paul Eakins indicates that a majority of the nine-member body may support the release of all city documents relevant to the California Public Records Act (CAPRA) request by resident Thomas Marchese regarding the controversial swap of city land [...]

The Press-Telegram reports today that there is controversy–not to mention possible illegality—surrounding the land swap the Long Beach City Council approved with wealthy and well-connected developer Tom Dean last February, and that’s progress … no matter that it took the city’s biggest news outlet 26 days to finally follow up on a story The District Weekly [...]

Artist Robert Wyland and his people are ready; and if, as Joe Segura writes in this morning’s Press-Telegram, Long Beach City Council approves tonight, the restoration of the Long Beach Arena whale mural will begin.
They’re apparently planning to get it done before the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, which is next weekend.
Interesting fact, per [...]

Two weeks after 2H Construction workers destroyed 8.38 acres of wetlands near Loynes Drive and Studebaker Road, one agency is taking the company to task.
Press-Telegram reporter Joe Segura writes this afternoon that the South Coast Air Quality Management District has issued Signal Hill-based 2H Construction a Notice of Violation for the diggings–and a Notice to [...]

Nothing really new here, but the Press-Telegram’s Joe Segura reports this morning that the offending asphalt was trucked away Thursday from 2H Construction’s recently-purchased wetlands parcel.
“The City Attorney’s Office is also pondering possible legal action against [property owner Sean Hitchcock],” Segura writes.
“We’re not ruling that out. He clearly was doing something he had no right [...]

The Press-Telegram weighs in with its wetlands story Saturday morning, and I have to say: after recent events, I can definitely see one direction things could go after the illegal wetlands grading that went on Thursday and Friday.
But first a couple quotes from the story, by Joe Segura. Then you’ll see it too. Here’s the [...]

Remember former Long Beach City Manager Henry Taboada? Of course you do.
Well, since leaving our city’s top post, he’s landed in Rossmoor, where he’s general manager of the Rossmoor Community Services District.
So far so good. Except that as Press-Telegram reporter Joe Segura points out, Taboada is also providing “campaign services” to the pro-Measure U folks, [...]