Can you beat this? More unpaid bills for Congresswoman Laura Richardson (D-Long Beach), and this time they’re big ones.
As reported by Capitol Weekly’s Anthony York (and tipped here locally by Kevin Roderick’s LAObserved.com), Richardson’s Sacramento house–which she purchased in January 2007, shortly after being elected to State Assembly–has been foreclosed on.
Why? Turns out Richardson, [...]

The city’s 1923 Spanish Colonial Revival bandshell in Bixby Park reopened this weekend–despite not being a shell at all, but rather a building with an open stage.
And the Los Angeles Times, which last took note of Long Beach when all those manhole covers went missing a couple of weeks ago, sent its “L.A. Then and [...]

If you think you like Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for president better than his Democratic alternative, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), now’s the time for you to prove it.
Well, Wednesday actually. As the Press-Telegram’s Paul Eakins tells us this morning, the Vault 350 will host the “Barack the Vote Concert & Fundraiser” that night, featuring ex-Booker [...]

A lot of folks post interesting comments on our website, both in response to–and, in some cases updating–our stories.
Yesterday afternoon, we noticed a comment from someone called Former Journo, in response to Dave Wielenga’s recent Nice Guy Finishes, At Last.

A very unnatural phenomenon
Much scarier than the Island of Lost Meals we told you about yesterday is an unnamed island 1,000 miles off the California coast,