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 [...]

This just in from LBPost.com: apparently, the two men in the one real Long Beach City Council race–challenger Ahmed Saafir and incumbent Dee Andrews, in the Sixth District–will face off in a candidates’ forum at 7 tonight.
They’ll be joined by two candidates in a different race–challenger Karen Thomas Hilburn and incumbent Jon Meyer, who are running [...]

TV’s Dr. Phil wants to hug it out with the Second District’s convicted sex offenders
Britney Spears: so yesterday! Dr. Phil McGraw–television’s Oprah-approved, magnolia-mouthed mother hen–has a new cause celebre: the convicted sex offenders who live in that vintage Streamline Moderne apartment complex in the 1100 block of East First Street.

Sixth District Councilman Dee Andrews had a fundraiser for his reelection tonight at the law offices of Keesal, Young & Logan, high above Ocean Boulevard–and the news was that less than two hours earlier, Andrews had secured a campaign endorsement from the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce.

This week a new Best Buy opens at Marina Pacifica Mall, and ground-breaking is celebrated for a new Residence Inn down by the Queen Mary. How good is that?  Not as good as it could–should–have been, and not as good as city officials are trying to make it seem. Not since the City Council voted to give away millions of [...]