If you ask some people about the first audit the city did of the Long Beach Museum of Art, they say the museum got off easy because the 2006 audit came out the same night that then-Second District Councilman Dan Baker abruptly resigned.
But really, tonight’s second audit (the third one comes next month) didn’t go [...]

The City Council’s overzealous approval in 2006 of a backassward environmental impact report (EIR) for a proposed Home Depot design center on the edge of the Los Cerritos Wetlands–a document that was ultimately rejected for its many inadequacies by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge in February of this year–may have saved Long Beach from [...]

Patrick O’Donnell is running unopposed for re-election as the Fourth District’s representative to the Long Beach City Council — and in today’s Q & A with Press-Telegram columnist John Canalis, who lobs a few softballs that O’Donnell swats out of the park. Canalis doesn’t bother with follow-up questions. Still, the interview is better than nothing — [...]

… BUT ALSO THE TRUTHS THE PAPER’S EDITORIAL WRITERS NEVER TOLD
Bill Pearl of LBReport.com breaks down, sentence by sentence, an editorial by the Press-Telegram that — depending on what you think of Long Beach’s once-great daily in these, its clearly diminished days — was either a pack of despicably calculated lies or a pathetic inability [...]

WHO DO YOU THINK WON THE NIGHT?
A row of men in very fine suits — representatives of the Port of Long Beach, including executive director Richard D. Steinke and Harbor Commissioners Mario Cordero, Dr. Mike Walter and Nick Sramek — sat shoulder-to-shoulder in the third row of the Long Beach City Council chambers last night.
They [...]

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.

We’re in the money
The California Coastal Conservancy—a state agency that’s been restoring California’s shoreline since 1976—approved a $50,000 disbursement to the City of Long Beach this afternoon. The money, coming from the agency’s annual budget of $53 million, will help fund a reconnaissance study intended to measure the cost-effectiveness of reconfiguring the Long Beach Breakwater.

State of ownership
“Maybe the state of California could take over the Long Beach Breakwater!” Fourth District City Councilman Patrick O’Donnell suddenly exclaimed (thus, the exclamation point) with equal parts enthusiasm and desperation as he cajoled the crowd for suggestions during the breakwater forum he sponsored at the Aquarium of the Pacific on Dec. 1.
A few [...]

Thanks mostly to the Los Angeles County Tax Assessor’s office–bringers of property tax–it’s difficult to be a landowner this time of year.
But the City of Long Beach, which owns the land under the Long Beach Yacht Club, finds itself in curious circumstances for an entirely different reason: labor negotiations at the Club, one of the [...]

Set your faces to discuss–for, at least, the city-mandated three minutes during the public comment portion of the Long Beach City Council meeting.
Tomorrow night’s Long Beach City Council meeting is the first viewing of Mayor Bob Foster’s proposal to put all city council agenda items on an agenda 12 days before the council actually discusses [...]