Veteran Press-Telegram reporter Joe Segura writes today about Legends owner Gene Rotondo banning Belmont Shore Residents Association President Mike Ruehle from his sports bar/restaurant.
The story also notes the ongoing advertising boycott which several Second Street businesses have begun against The District Weekly.
Catch Segura’s story here.

Belmont Shore’s landed gentry takes on peasants, loses

Everybody knows how the system works in Belmont Shore, and when nearly 300 people showed up at tiny Bayshore Library on Sept. 11 to vote in the local residents association election, everybody figured the system was working that way again. Especially the people who were working it.
“When the [...]

In memory of George Carlin, in tribute to perhaps his best-remembered bit—The Seven Words You Can’t Say on TV—and in utter amazement at the level of discourse from a mayorally appointed Long Beach community officer, we now present the “Seven Words and Phrases that Belmont Shore Parking Commissioner Kurt Schneiter Used to Insult Belmont Shore [...]

P-T editorializes the Gene Rotondo ATM-parking saga
Belmont Shore restaurateur Gene Rotondo’s problems with the ATM at his newly-renovated and reopened Legends sports bar have been well-documented in the Press-Telegram.
It’s just interesting, sometimes, to take a step back and consider what it’s all about–and to wonder how much we’d care about all this if, say, Rotondo [...]