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 [...]

Six of Long Beach’s nine City Council members got out of bed early this morning to attend the Breakwater Forum, a public update and discussion of the city’s $100,000 investigation into a possible breakwater configuration. The recurring theme was a growing realization of how massive a task Long Beach is undertaking. The word “unprecedented” was used a lot.
Perhaps just [...]

City noise committee reins in noise ordinance
On Tuesdays the City Council doesn’t meet, reporters must scour the city for a meeting–any meeting–to cover.
Fortunately, there are many. This Tuesday, a city committee you may never have heard of talked about redoing the city noise ordinance, to keep you quiet. (If  you’re too noisy.)

Long Beach City Council changes its policy on public comment

After much discussion and comments from a dozen members of the public–the largest number of audience members to comment on any item on last night’s city council agenda–Long Beach City Council voted 5-3 last night to change, and very likely restrict, the public’s ability to open [...]

The Breakwater Forum
Fourth District City Councilman Patrick O’Donnell interrupted his partying at the Surfrider Foundation’s Breakwater Bash on Thursday night just long enough to announce his own breakwater event.
The Breakwater Forum—probably a little less fun but a lot more informational—will be held Saturday, Dec. 1 at the Aquarium of the Pacific’s Honda Theater. It’s free [...]