The City Council’s overzealous approval in 2006 of a backassward environmental impact report (EIR) for a proposed Home Depot design center on the edge of the Los Cerritos Wetlands–a document that was ultimately rejected for its many inadequacies by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge in February of this year–may have saved Long Beach from [...]

Gerrie Schipske says there’s never TMI
Responding to Dave Wielenga’s coyote-coddling, wetlands-wanting piece in the print edition of today’s District Weekly, Fifth District Councilmember Schipske comments:
“I don’t think there has been enough public input on the SEADIP* so I am hosting a meeting at Emerson Elementary on April 7th so that the public can come and [...]

While people decide the fate of Long Beach’s hidden wilderness, a coyote keeps hunting the wetlands

PHOTO by JENNY STOCKDALE
Not far away, a coyote with a coat as dense and red-brown as the marshland brush was sprinting silently across a wide tidal flat toward unsuspecting seabirds, his footprints dissolving into the water-logged sand the instant he [...]

TENTATIVE RULING SHOOTS DOWN CITY COUNCIL’S CONTROVERSIAL APPROVAL IN 2006
A Superior Court judge on Tuesday invalidated the controversial Environmental Impact Report (EIR) that the Long Beach City Council had approved for a Home Depot and retail project on the edge of the Los Cerritos Wetlands. The tentative ruling ordered that all work on the proposed [...]

To music and lyrics played in a dead-on impersonation of the Beach Boys, a brand new website — www.solongdelong.com — is advocating the recall of Long Beach Third District City Councilmember Gary DeLong.
“Gary, Gary What Went Wrong?” asks the song in its high harmonic opening vocals, backed by the twang and rumble of classic 1960s [...]