Let’s remember who wants school board trustee Michael Ellis to resign
Depending upon your perspective, there’s either a Who’s Who or a rogues’ gallery of local media this morning covering last night’s Long Beach school board meeting–and the fact that embattled trustee Michael Shane Ellis is refusing to resign.
(We’d call it a Rogues’ Who–only because, as [...]

Breaking with its history of official neutrality, the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce will endorse and fund candidates in 2008 races for seats on the School Board — and may do so in City Council campaigns, too.
Randy Gordon, the Chamber’s president and CEO, confirmed the organization’s change in philosophy Tuesday night while speaking at the Beer [...]

Bad air quality in Long Beach, and Kimora Lee Simmons
The fires still reign as the Press-Telegram’s top story today, though Kelly Puente has the local angle with a piece on air quality.
Elsewhere in the P-T, there’s more excitement: Kevin Butler writes about the Long Beach Unified School District superintendent banning teachers’ union leader Scott [...]