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.

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.)

State’s water allotment to Long Beach dries up
If you like water–as many of us do–you’d better start building a rain barrel, or digging a hole in the sand like that woman in the movie about the dunes, “Woman in Dunes.”
The state Department of Water Resources has announced that in 2008, Long Beach will get just [...]

So, as the Press-Telegram’s Paul Eakins reports today, “Sugar Walls” isn’t just a really bad Sheena Easton song you can sometimes hear in Vegas if you catch her act. No, Sugarwalls (all one word, lowercase “w”) is also the name of a topless club on Anaheim Street near Santa Fe Avenue. And, as Eakins reports, [...]

The Press-Telegram’s Paul Eakins reports today on the testimony members of three veterans groups gave Tuesday night to the council, after the veterans groups–Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out and Veterans For Peace–were denied the right to march in last Saturday’s 11th Annual Veterans Parade.And LBPost.com chimes in, with a cheery parade [...]

The City of Long Beach tries cutting back on water

Today’s top Press-Telegram story online? The fires whipped up in Malibu, Canyon Country and Agua Dulce by the Santa Ana winds. The top local story appears to be something by Kelly Puente about the wind. But keep reading; there’s local news downpage.

The return of Robert Avila
What’s going on today? Happy kid photos in the Press-Telegram–where happy kid photos are prized even above happy dog or fluffy kitty photos. They’re like gold down there–gold, in digital form. (Reminds me, where’d I put my Krugerrands?)
This time, it’s the P-T story on the kidnapping–and eventual return–of two-year-old Robert Avila. [...]

Trailers on the street
No offense to the Press-Telegram’s Paul Eakins–but, really, someone kill me if I ever read another P-T Long Beach City Council story that leads with an item about parking trailers on the street. It’s not a badly executed story–and, yes, there are streets in Long Beach, and some people must park trailers [...]