This Week: Several Unpleasant Smells
Tues | JULY 1 As summer gas prices continue to rise, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports on a nationwide surge in grave-robbing, spurred by rising scrap-metal prices and good old-fashioned envy for the dead. Police admitted that preventing such crime is difficult because department budgets tend to prioritize the needs of [...]

The LA Times watched the legal system fight against itself in yesterday’s story of Michael Campo, a Long Beach boy who’s in the middle of a struggle between two completely different arms of the court. The story revolves mostly around the boy’s divorced parents, as Campo splits time between his mother’s place in Long Beach [...]

The city sues longtime Queen Mary director Joseph Prevratil. Now we can wonder whether legal action will change Long Beach’s political culture of favoritism for insiders

PHOTO by DANIEL DE BOOM
Oldtimers still tell of the days when Joseph Prevratil roamed the 14th floor of City Hall—where City Council members have their offices—possessed of a confidence and [...]

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Contract negotiations make Long Beach Yacht Club employees feel like workers again

ILLUSTRATION by JOE MCGARRY
The Long Beach Yacht Club, which first met in 1929 at the city’s Pacific Coast Club, is so old Long Beach that it seems to run on something called noblesse oblige: the French phrase emphasizing the moral obligation of the high [...]

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 [...]

If we were cynics, we’d guess the Dodgers were destroying their stadium to make way for massive new development

SARAH TILLMAN
I pulled into the parking space at Dodger Stadium having been directed by numerous flag-waving attendants taking their jobs slightly more seriously than the folks who guide jets onto aircraft carriers. Climbing out of the car, [...]