Paramount residential market goes limp. Also: 2008 elections in Long Beach

Not sure who wrote it, but there’s an interesting piece on the shocking drop in Paramount home sales, in today’s Press-Telegram opinion section.

Port of Long Beach finds a “Chicago typewriter”
This may not have been quite the caper Rachel Powers had in mind when she wrote her recent District piece, “How They’ll Blow Up the Port of Long Beach,” but I guess a man smuggling in a 1920s-era machine gun–through the Port–will have to do.

Who will speak for the landlocked ski boats and dry docks?
It’s been the better part of a week, but the cover story on the drought in last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine is still one of our favorite pieces.
Why?

Halloween comes early this year

How afraid do you want to be?
The Press-Telegram promotes its annual Halloween scary story competition on the website–but its scariest online story today has to be the one about a pipe bomb explosion last night at Pine Avenue and Ocean Boulevard. That just gets scarier the more you think about it.