Lifetime environmental pioneer Dorothy Green died Monday night at age 79, and it’s hard not to notice that she passed away just six days after the Long Beach City Council voted unanimously to call Long Beach the “Aquatic Capital of America.”
Green founded Heal The Bay, the landmark organization that has monitored ocean water quality along [...]

Thursday was a busy day in Main Library history. The city aired its new proposed budget in public meetings at two of our toniest semi-private locations–Long Beach Yacht Club, and the Petroleum Club–at both of which the library could theoretically be discussed.
Then, out of public view, City Manager Pat West met with the so-called Library [...]

If the City of Long Beach had stuck to its original timetable, Main Library would be open just more six weeks before closing indefinitely. Then, some day, a new, watertight, earthquake-proof Main Library would be built or rebuilt, there or elsewhere. Some day.
That’s what worries members of

St. Mary Medical Center sues city–or does it?
Interesting Press-Telegram piece over the weekend. Apparently Catholic Healthcare West, the parent corporation of St. Mary Medical Center, has three separate breach-of-contract lawsuits going against the City of Long Beach.

Thanks mostly to the Los Angeles County Tax Assessor’s office–bringers of property tax–it’s difficult to be a landowner this time of year.
But the City of Long Beach, which owns the land under the Long Beach Yacht Club, finds itself in curious circumstances for an entirely different reason: labor negotiations at the Club, one of the [...]