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 [...]

The rumors about a change in daily management at the Queen Mary are true, says the Long Beach Business Journal.
No change in the company which controls its lease; that’d still be Garrison Investment Group.
But Hostmark Hospitality, which ran daily operations on the ship–including its hotel functions–and General Manager Jay Primavera are out.
Coming in is Delaware [...]

(This story, reported by the  Long Beach Business Journal on Thursday, is presented here with permission LBBJ publisher George Economides, who will print a more complete version in his July 7 edition.)  
A financially-strapped City of Long Beach asked for additional help from the Port of Long Beach this week. The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners voted unanimously to loan the [...]

(OR WHY RANDY TERRELL JUST MAY BE THE BRAVEST MAN IN LONG BEACH)
Only a few days remain to catch Mayor Bob Foster’s Magical Measure-I Mystery Tour, the tough-medicine show that Long Beach’s chief executive has been rolling around town for more than two months. Step right up to witness an astonishing display of Hizzoner’s remarkable [...]

In memory of George Carlin, in tribute to perhaps his best-remembered bit—The Seven Words You Can’t Say on TV—and in utter amazement at the level of discourse from a mayorally appointed Long Beach community officer, we now present the “Seven Words and Phrases that Belmont Shore Parking Commissioner Kurt Schneiter Used to Insult Belmont Shore [...]

And other solutions to the high cost of pensions, and the city’s financial straits
Maybe it was the chicken in a red-wine reduction talking, but a packed room of business owners this afternoon got a handful of dire predictions at the East Anaheim Street Business Alliance’s (EASBA) annual luncheon.

You can hear Mayor Bob Foster for free Tuesday nights at Long Beach City Council meetings, on all but the last Tuesday of the month–but then, of course, he’s a little more limited in what he can say.
But at noon tomorrow at Frenchie’s Bistro, 4137 E. Anaheim St., Foster will talk economy over lunch–and maybe [...]

Two weeks after the Long Beach City Council took away the public’s right to pull items from its Consent Calendar Agenda — typically, a couple dozen issues supposedly so routine that they can be grouped together and approved with one vote — Bill Pearl of LBreport.com has discovered that a major spending provision has been quietly [...]