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 [...]

The agenda for Tuesday’s evening’s meeting of the Long Beach City Council is available by [clicking here].  The March 11 meeting begins at 5 p.m. on the first floor of City Hall, located at 333 W. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach. C’mon down!

Last night’s Long Beach City Council meeting probably had more reporters per square inch than any council meeting since the Queen Mary came to town in ‘67 (but feel free to substitute your own significant local event here).
As near as I can tell, Cal State Long Beach’s Daily 49er was actually the first paper to [...]

(UPDATED AND EXTENDED VERSION OF AN EARLIER POST)
 The Long Beach City Council used harsh words and a unanimous vote against its erstwhile hometown newspaper Tuesday night, resolving to “reevaluate” the hundreds of thousands of dollars it spends with the Press-Telegram every year, now that the paper will be operated by the publisher of the Daily [...]

Last night’s candidates’ forum featured plans, hopes and dreams from Long Beach Unified School District candidates; and from the two men vying to be your next Sixth District city councilman.
The latter two–incumbent Councilman Dee Andrews, and challenger Ahmed Saafir–laid out some of their plans for the Sixth District. There’s coverage at LBPost.com, and coverage coming [...]