Excluded veterans will walk in Martin Luther King Jr. event, possibly Veterans Day Parade

PHOTO by DANIEL DE BOOM
An adviser to Lt. Gov. John Garamendi—a veteran whose grandfather was a Superior Court judge in Long Beach—says that pacifist veterans groups excluded from last November’s Long Beach Veterans Day Parade in North Long Beach will likely be [...]

City wants to know who among us embodies the spirit of America’s patron saint  
From a city press release:
The City of Long Beach is requesting nominations for the First Annual 2008 Martin Luther King Jr. Peacemaker Award.
Two award recipients (one adult and one youth) will be honored in January 2008 during Peace Week —a week-long celebration [...]

The annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration isn’t always a time to remember the civil rights pioneer. Sometimes it reflects the ambitions of the councilmember organizing it

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY
This week, while you consider whether it was worth getting up at 4:30 to be the first through the doors at Mervyns, or if the [...]