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 [...]