There was no meeting of the Long Beach City Council on Tuesday night — never is on the last Tuesday of the month – but as if by habit local politicos threw their weight around, anyway.
Councilmembers Patrick O’Donnell and Val Lerch announced their endorsement of Vice Mayor Bonnie Lowenthal in her campaign for the 54th District’s seat in the California [...]

You may know Paul Oberjuerge as the sports columnist for the San Bernardino Sun or may know him because I kinda ripped him up a while ago for writing, what I thought, was a pretty crappy column about LA Times columnist Christine Daniels in which he said she was “not an attractive woman.”
I took him [...]

Press-Telegram sports columnist Bob Keisser adds some historical perspective to the NCAA penalties handed down to the Long Beach State basketball team this week, and points out that the punishment amounts to a “hand slap” compared to what the 49ers received in 1974.  Fact is, former LBSU coaches were guilty as charged. And new 49ers coach Don Monson [...]

Suja Lowenthal is among three members of the Long Beach City Council — the others are Rae Gabelich and Patrick O’Donnell — who don’t have to campaign for re-election this year because no one filed to oppose them. Trying to hold these officials to some kind of public accounting, the Press-Telegram’s John Canalis submitted questions [...]