As a U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class, Virginia Sanchez sees why literacy is vital

Long Beach native Virginia Sanchez was an adult services librarian at Long Beach Public Library when she answered the call of duty and enlisted in the United States Navy.
Petty Officer 1st Class Sanchez was sent to Afghanistan last Fall, where she’s [...]

It’s officially not official yet. Despite hearing from Mayor Bob Foster, and devoting considerable discussion to the topic, Long Beach Chamber of Commerce hasn’t decided how it feels about Hizzoner’s proposed $571 million infrastructure bond–which will be in our hands and on our ballots in November.
And it may not know how it feels until some [...]

Gerrie Schipske is the only member of the Long Beach City Council to oppose Mayor Bob Foster’s proposed $571 million tax on property owners to pay for repairs to so-far-unspecified aspects of Long Beach’s infrastructure, and the Fifth District representative may be paying the price for her brave position.
An editorial in today’s LBReport.com makes a strong case that Schipske–who on [...]

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

And what’s this about a two-year “gap in service”?

Time to leave work early today, for this afternoon’s budget study session, at 3:30 at City Hall, 333 W. Ocean Blvd.
Among the hot topics, of course, will be what to do with the city’s leaky 32-year-old Main Library

Giving us one more reason to consider remembering the November election for the rest of our natural lives, Long Beach City Council voted 8-1 last night to put Mayor Bob Foster’s $571 million infrastructure improvement plan on the ballot in about three and a half months.
In other words, it’s now known as the Long Beach [...]

 The Long Beach City Council unanimously took another step Tuesday night toward giving a small group of Belmont Shore landowner/businessmen/kinda-sorta-government officials another shot at a bond issue election that would pave the alleys around their properties and pay former city councilman Frank Colonna $1.5 million for a parking lot that serves his tenants.
But the 8-0 [...]

Some of Belmont Shore’s biggest landowners and businessmen, operating under the authority of two quasi-governmental agencies in the quaint seaside district, are taking another run at a bond issue that would pave the alleys around their properties and pay a former city councilman $1.5 million for a parking lot. Good deal if you can get [...]

Mayor Bob Foster gets the profile treatment from Paul Eakins in this morning’s Press-Telegram, and his $571 million plan to rebuild the city’s infrastructure gets a separate examination.
Foster’s own take on his plan–which according to the P-T will require Long Beach City Council to “unanimously approve a declaration of fiscal emergency”? He doesn’t think it [...]

Mayor Bob Foster is expected to say more this morning about his $570 million plans to rebuild streets, sidewalks and alleys–plus the more bureaucratic-sounding storm water management systems–but already we know more than we did about what’s in store.
In this morning’s Press-Telegram, Paul Eakins reports on a 102-page streets audit City Auditor Laura Doud released [...]