(OR WHY RANDY TERRELL JUST MAY BE THE BRAVEST MAN IN LONG BEACH)
Only a few days remain to catch Mayor Bob Foster’s Magical Measure-I Mystery Tour, the tough-medicine show that Long Beach’s chief executive has been rolling around town for more than two months. Step right up to witness an astonishing display of Hizzoner’s remarkable [...]

Yep. Los Angeles Times reporter Mark Medina takes a crack at Mayor Bob Foster’s muchly-talked about parcel tax in this morning’s paper.
“Foster has tried bolstering support this fall for Measure I, a 35-year $120 parcel tax for all residential and business properties. Stacey Ann Fong Toda, Foster’s deputy chief of staff, said the mayor he [...]

Mayor Bob Foster declined an invitation from the Long Beach Press Club to debate Measure I—the property tax increase he’s been non-stop-promoting to voters since August—and the managing editor of LBPost.com thinks the mayor’s silence speaks volumes. In fact, that’s the headline on the editorial posted this morning by the online publication’s managing editor, Ryan ZumMallen. [CLICK HERE TO [...]

MEANWHILE, LBREPORT.COM SAYS BELMONT SHORE RESIDENTS ASSN. EXCLUDED JENSEN FROM SPEAKING AT MAYOR’S MEASURE I ADDRESS THURSDAY NIGHT 
Although Mayor Bob Foster has opted out, former Redevelopment Agency board member Terry Jensen will still appear at tonight’s meeting of the Long Beach Press Club to debate his opposition to Measure I—the Nov. 4 ballot issue that proposes [...]

Mayor Bob Foster’s extensive and ongoing tour of the city in search of voter support for Measure I—the $571-million parcel property tax measure he proposed in late July—will not include a public debate offered by the Long Beach Press Club.
Foster has declined an invitation to pro-and-con it with Terry Jensen, a former Redevelopment Agency board [...]

More than 50 journalists from across the city of Long Beach and its spectrum of media outlets turned out at Nino’s Italian Restaurant in Bixby Knolls on Friday, August 1, for the inaugural meeting of the Long Beach Press Club.
The organization is a grass-roots response to the seemingly constant crashing of some of local journalism’s [...]