Maybe you noticed that other media outlets have begun reporting that Angels In Waiting, Inc., the not-for-profit agency that says it will care for Nadya Suleman’s 14 children, isn’t even close to having the money to back up its generous offer.
Maybe you remember that Juan Pardell reported that in The District Weekly on March 4?
We [...]

Purchasing $20 million in commercial paper from Lehman Brothers just 12 days before the firm declared bankruptcy will wind up costing the city of Long Beach $25.8 million, Paul Eakins reports in this morning’s Press-Telegram.
That’s a $20 million loss from the Lehman Brothers debacle and, according to Eakins, another $5.8 million hit as the city [...]

Giving us one more reason to consider remembering the November election for the rest of our natural lives, Long Beach City Council voted 8-1 last night to put Mayor Bob Foster’s $571 million infrastructure improvement plan on the ballot in about three and a half months.
In other words, it’s now known as the Long Beach [...]

A just-released financial audit revealing how Queen Mary operator Joe Prevratil used a shell game-style financial structure to enrich himself by nearly $8 million while driving Long Beach’s city icon into bankruptcy basically backs up and amplifies a story reported by The District Weekly last July.
Howard M. Ehrenberg, the court-appointed trustee for the Queen Mary during bankruptcy—who is currently opposing [...]