Of course Mayor Bob Foster and his allies are spinning to try and save City Manager Pat West from possible removal next week by the City Council.
The evidence is in this morning’s (Feb. 26) Press-Telegram, in which some try to bestow victim status on Mr. West, portraying him as the target of a plot to [...]

With the April 13th election to decide a host of elected offices in Long Beach—including City Attorney, Mayor, and odd-numbered Long Beach City Council seats—very slowly approaching, LBReport.com’s Bill Pearl has most of what should be the latest campaign contribution reportings.
(Some folks apparently still owe us their statements.)
Among the highlights: State Sen. Alan Lowenthal (D-on’t [...]

As LBReport.com’s Daryl Supernaw and the Press-Telegram’s Kristopher Hanson both report, the muchly-hyped demolition and reconstruction of the Seventh Street connector bridge to the San Diego (405) and San Gabriel River (605) freeways could get pushed back to 2011 due to the state’s money problems.
Big surprise, no?
“In a surprise announcement at Councilmember Patrick O’Donnell’s monthly [...]

As LBReport.com and the Press-Telegram both report this morning, Long Beach City Council hasn’t changed the city’s tree removal policy just yet. Or:
“A new policy to allow the city to remove trees whose roots are damaging public or private property, even if the trees aren’t diseased, won’t be put into effect quite yet,” Paul Eakins [...]

Deputy City Manager Reginald Harrison is City Hall’s busiest man
As Development Services Department head and Redevelopment Agency director, Craig Beck really had it all, didn’t he? City Hall office, secured parking space, and he got to wear a necktie to work almost every day. And on top of it all, up until his demotion to [...]

LBReport.com’s Bill Pearl was all over the current cold snap this morning, proving that sometimes, the most simply-told stories are the best.
“Windshield/rooftop frost was visible at LBReport.com’s [East Long Beach] world headquarters,” Pearl writes—immediately above a puckishly set-up photograph of a minivan, with “LBReport.com” carved into the frost on his windshield.
I’m guessing that’s probably his [...]

The clean trucks ordinance chugging past the Harbor Commission–and lone dissenting Harbor Commissioner Mario Cordero–which The District Weekly’s Dave Wielenga wrote about Wednesday, coasted through another green light Monday.
As LBReport.com’s Bill Pearl writes:
“In an action that opponents vowed to appeal to [Long Beach's] elected City Council (without indicating their procedure for doing so), [Long Beach's] [...]

Per the Press-Telegram and LBReport.com, Long Beach Police Department announced Wednesday night that two 16-year-old boys have been arrested in the shooting death Friday night of Wilson Classical High School student Melody Ross.
As the P-T’s Tracy Manzer reports, one of the two is the gunman who shot and killed Ross and wounded two others following [...]

Details are still coming in, but Long Beach police have announced Wednesday night the arrest of two suspects in the shooting death Friday night of 16-year-old Wilson Classical High School student Melody Ross.
Here’s coverage from LBReport.com and the Press-Telegram.

Per LBReport.com, voters have soundly rejected Measure T, the proposed Long Beach Unified School District parcel tax on Tuesday’s ballot, which would have added approximately $92 per parcel to residents’ property tax bills.