A new piece has emerged in Tom Dean’s puzzling plans for the Los Cerritos Wetlands area. The District Weekly has learned that a representative of the multi-millionaire developer’s Studebaker LLC showed up at Long Beach City Hall on Monday with a binder of full-color plans and filled out a permit to build a massive home improvement shopping [...]

Looking left, right and center with Long Beach’s next political star

PHOTO by JOHN GILHOOLEY
We know how Robert Garcia got here, and by “here” we mean just about anywhere you look in Long Beach, but especially downtown—and eternally, it seems, perched on the verge of officially announcing he’s running for city council. We know a lot [...]

Beware of outside agitators!
As reported previously, Long Beach hotel workers have recently protested against low pay and elusive health benefits.  Their complaints are not unfounded: pay in the Long Beach hospitality sector is well below the national average.  The workers are supported by the Long Beach Coalition for Good Jobs and Healthy Communities–which has argued [...]

Strange enough that the most-influential lobbyists in the city were gathered on the same side of an issue being considered by a Long Beach City Council committee Tuesday afternoon. The really weird part is that they seemed to be sitting on the side that was losing.
Two-thirds of the council’s three-person Election Oversight Committee appeared to [...]

Save The Queen frontman Jeff Klein, sounding exasperated and exhausted, continued to seek clarification Friday afternoon on a legal ruling that seems to give him only until the end of the day Tuesday to finalize his purchase of the Queen Mary lease.
“We’re trying to understand what the closing date should be — there are different [...]