Haven’t heard from Long Beach Chamber of Commerce CEO Randy Gordon in a bit, but he was the featured speaker at today’s meeting of the East Anaheim Street Business Alliance, held at the tasty Frenchy’s Bistro.
And for a man who literally said he didn’t want to talk about still-embattled Long Beach Unified school board trustee [...]

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 [...]

Testimony yesterday in the ongoing lawsuit brought against Long Beach Unified School District by a group of parents of female gymastics students suggested Wilson High didn’t have to tear up the tumblers’ practice area to create an all-purpose fitness room.
As the Press-Telegram’s Kevin Butler reports, Wilson planned to remodel the gymnasts’ practice room to help [...]

A Press-Telegram editorial reveals that the paper’s editorial board supports the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce effort to recall troubled and controversial school board member Michael Shane Ellis. No surprise there.
But with a simple, parenthetical sentence the P-T also acknowledges that a member of its editorial board, publisher Dave Kuta, is also a Chamber board [...]

Wilson High Title IX lawsuit headed to court next month
Now we know: the parents of a group of Wilson High School gymnastics students will definitely be squaring off against Long Beach Unified School District in court Feb. 19.

Title IX complaint could reach trial next month
The Title IX lawsuit against Long Beach Unified School District is back in court after the holidays.
According to Kevin Butler in this morning’s Press-Telegram, U.S. District Judge Gary A. Feess is expected to rule in the next few days on a lawsuit brought by the parents of a [...]

Three P-T round-up stories get 2008 in the boat and hit it with the oar
Round-up stories in newspapers are usually a double negative: horrific to write–lotsa busy work, little pay-off–and life-shortening to read. Like weather stories.
And so without further ado, here are three round-up stories from recent issues of the Press-Telegram. But good ones–chock fulla [...]

Paramount residential market goes limp. Also: 2008 elections in Long Beach

Not sure who wrote it, but there’s an interesting piece on the shocking drop in Paramount home sales, in today’s Press-Telegram opinion section.

Furutani for State Assembly, Randy Gordon vs. Michael Ellis gather, expel steam
Maybe it’s not quite accurate to call 55th Assembly District candidate Warren Furutani’s campaign a juggernaut–after all, this time last year he ran exactly the same race against then-Sixth District Councilwoman Laura Richardson and was sent packing. (That was a juggernaut.)