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BIG DAY FOR ALEX CHERIN, KOI WRANGLING

November 19, 2007

Assistant City Auditor ogles new gig
As reported over the weekend by LBReport.com, and today by the Press-Telegram, one of the guys I toiled with 20 years ago at Poly High, the affable Alex Cherin–your 2004 candidate in the Seventh District city council race–may become the Port of Long Beach’s new executive officer to the board.

SAVING THE TUNNEL, FINDING A CRIMINAL

November 16, 2007

City may dig into Jergins Tunnel; college cops seek attacker
After languishing for a generation, the Jergins Tunnel–the underground pedestrian walkway that once gave amusement park visitors a traffic-free passage from the Jergins building to the Pike–inches closer to being saved.

QUEEN MARY HAND-OVER ROUND-UP

November 8, 2007

New owners, almost all smiles
In case you haven’t been following along at home, here’s coverage of yesterday’s joint press conference by Save the Queen officials–the development consortium which bought the lease to operate the Queen Mary and 64 acres of surrounding land–and the City of Long Beach.

STATE OF THE PRESS-TELEGRAM

October 26, 2007

If anybody from the Press-Telegram was actually inside the Grand Salon of the Queen Mary for Tuesday’s meeting of the Long Beach Rotary Club — where downtown restaurateur John Morris gave his practical-yet-visionary State of the City address — I sure didn’t see them. Nothing showed up in the P-T the next day, either.

BEST OF: NEWS & COMMUNITY

October 17, 2007

THICK HEADS: BEER & POLITICS Dedicated to the philosophy that it’s okay to be drunk with power—as long as you both have designated drivers (and as long as Power will shut up about his kid—God! Little bastard can’t run for president for 33 more years). This monthly event brings supposedly remote Long Beach politicos (state [...]

 

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