An excellent piece of investigative reportage by the Press-Telegram’s Paul Eakins today traces bits and pieces of just-re-elected Congresswoman Laura Richardson’s financial wreckage back to the days in 2005 when she was still a Long Beach City Councilwoman and up Signal Hill to a pair of auto repair shops. Eakins documents how Richardson stiffed the first shop for a [...]

There’s a bit of a twist in the only real Long Beach City Council race in the city, the Sixth District contest between incumbent Dee Andrews and challenger Ahmed Saafir.
Paul Eakins reports in this morning’s Press-Telegram that Andrews skipped last night’s NAACP candidates forum for school board and Sixth District candidates because of what Andrews [...]

At its meeting last night, the Long Beach City Council unanimously approved a new ordinance governing where convicted sex offenders may and may not live–meaning that, under the new rules, all but one of the 10 convicted sex offenders living in that hotly-debated Alamitos Beach apartment complex will have to hit the road.
The new law [...]

The Press-Telegram not only made most of the news at Tuesday night’s meeting of the Long Beach City Council, but its local government expert, Paul Eakins, also reports that news in today’s paper. Eakins provides a clear and concise account of Tuesday night’s fallout from the February 29 restructuring at the paper — when it was put under the control of [...]

Wilson High Title IX lawsuit headed to court next month
Now we know: the parents of a group of Wilson High School gymnastics students will definitely be squaring off against Long Beach Unified School District in court Feb. 19.

And help pay for Florentino Rivera’s funeral
Today on your lunch hour, think about getting your car washed at West Summit Street and Santa Fe Avenue.

Three P-T round-up stories get 2008 in the boat and hit it with the oar
Round-up stories in newspapers are usually a double negative: horrific to write–lotsa busy work, little pay-off–and life-shortening to read. Like weather stories.
And so without further ado, here are three round-up stories from recent issues of the Press-Telegram. But good ones–chock fulla [...]

And Long Beach Playhouse gets a new director
Tuesday’s Long Beach City Council meeting was a busy one–in part, no doubt because with the holidays upon us, the Council won’t meet again until Jan. 8.
One of the many projects it approved during the last meeting of the old year was the much-discussed Shoreline Gateway project: a [...]

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.

City Council to debate condo conversions
Those of you who don’t immediately peruse the Long Beach City Council agenda the moment it appears each week might have missed this–but at tomorrow’s 5 p.m. meeting, the Council will consider sticking up for apartment renters.