Credit Press-Telegram reporters John Canalis and Karen Robes-Meeks for breaking the story that Long Beach’s most-powerful development official—Craig Beck heads both the city’s Development Services Department and its Redevelopment Agency—received a special deal on accommodations during a weekend in Napa. On Nov. 13-14, Beck stayed at a boutique hotel owned by a company hoping to [...]

Long Beach resident Thomas Marchese wrapped up the July 21 meeting of the city council with a passel of questions about the city’s plans to exchange public land for Los Cerritos Wetlands-area property owned by local developer Tom Dean.
City manager Pat West was instructed to answer Marchese’s questions, and you can read what his staff [...]

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 [...]