As the Press-Telegram’s Tracy Manzer reports this morning, Long Beach police are asking the public for help finding four young men “believed responsible” in the savage beating and robbing of a 55-year-old man in downtown Long Beach, in the early morning hours of Sept. 19.
“The attack on the victim was so savage that all the [...]

Harbor Commissioner Jim Hankla has apparently dropped his attempted end run around the Long Beach City Council and promised to keep his hands off while a city-contracted engineering firm conducts a thorough study of the Long Beach Breakwater.
“It was a rogue moment, which I’m confident won’t be repeated,” chuckles Patrick O’Donnell, Fourth District council member, [...]

Huntington Beach Mayor Debbie Cook’s just-announced candidacy for Dana Rohrabacher’s 46th District seat in Congress could translate into some long-awaited movement for the Long Beach Breakwater.
“I was one of the original supporters of the effort to reconfigure the breakwater,” says Cook, who has distinguished herself as a practical environmentalist during two terms on the Huntington [...]

Six of Long Beach’s nine City Council members got out of bed early this morning to attend the Breakwater Forum, a public update and discussion of the city’s $100,000 investigation into a possible breakwater configuration. The recurring theme was a growing realization of how massive a task Long Beach is undertaking. The word “unprecedented” was used a lot.
Perhaps just [...]