Can you beat this? More unpaid bills for Congresswoman Laura Richardson (D-Long Beach), and this time they’re big ones.
As reported by Capitol Weekly’s Anthony York (and tipped here locally by Kevin Roderick’s LAObserved.com), Richardson’s Sacramento house–which she purchased in January 2007, shortly after being elected to State Assembly–has been foreclosed on.
Why? Turns out Richardson, [...]

Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster had his hands full addressing two separate rooms of business folk simultaneously at this afternoon’s packed East Anaheim Street Business Alliance monthly meeting, but he managed to stand in the connecting doorway and work two rooms.
Foster praised his hosts, the newly minted Business Improvement District, but he also offered some [...]

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 [...]

Yes, it’s true. For the second time, in as many times as it’s been poised to come before Long Beach City Council, the City Clerk’s office has removed tonight’s discussion of electronic billboards from the Council agenda.

Electronic billboards would help retire the LB Museum of Art debt–and, really, who doesn’t want to retire?

Much has been said and written about how bad the electronic billboards proposal–which returns to Long Beach City Council on Tuesday night–would be for our city.
But all those scofflaws seem to forget: if the proposal is approved (and our [...]

Ever wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night, wondering how much this spring’s spate of Long Beach City Council and Long Beach Unified school board elections will cost us?  Maybe you should.

There’s a bit of a twist in the only real Long Beach City Council race in the city, the Sixth District contest between incumbent Dee Andrews and challenger Ahmed Saafir.
Paul Eakins reports in this morning’s Press-Telegram that Andrews skipped last night’s NAACP candidates forum for school board and Sixth District candidates because of what Andrews [...]

Not really. But dedicated Long Beach City Council watchers should notice that item No. 19 under Departmental Communications on tonight’s Council agenda (it’s also denoted by the No. 08-0092) has been taken off the agenda.
Apparently, it wasn’t put on the agenda long enough before the meeting; that’s what a staff member in Third District Councilman [...]

At its meeting last night, the Long Beach City Council unanimously approved a new ordinance governing where convicted sex offenders may and may not live–meaning that, under the new rules, all but one of the 10 convicted sex offenders living in that hotly-debated Alamitos Beach apartment complex will have to hit the road.
The new law [...]

Long Beach City Council revisits the issue tomorrow
The public relations people for the Dr. Phil TV show weren’t lying when they said, rather vaguely, that if they were producing a segment on the Alamitos Beach sex offenders, it might run some time in March.
It aired Friday–meaning that, by now, you’ve missed it. (I [...]