LB vocational school goes down in bankruptcy filing
Six weeks ago, the P-T’s Joe Segura reported the closure of a Long Beach helicopter school that stranded 150 students. The bankruptcy crash-landing of Silver State Helicopters (I clicked on the company’s website, but damn if I could open it) made headlines in Nevada (where the company is [...]

Port of Long Beach finds a “Chicago typewriter”
This may not have been quite the caper Rachel Powers had in mind when she wrote her recent District piece, “How They’ll Blow Up the Port of Long Beach,” but I guess a man smuggling in a 1920s-era machine gun–through the Port–will have to do.

There are three Hanks everyone thinks of when they think of country music–and they’re all Williamses.
The fourth, of course, was Hank Thompson,

Who will speak for the landlocked ski boats and dry docks?
It’s been the better part of a week, but the cover story on the drought in last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine is still one of our favorite pieces.
Why?