Ever wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night, wondering how much this spring’s spate of Long Beach City Council and Long Beach Unified school board elections will cost us?  Maybe you should.

We have the final word on the fate of the Looff’s Lite-a-Line roof–and it is “goodbye,” from no less than the city’s Historic Preservation Officer Jan Ostashay. The Looff’s Lite-a-Line roof will be outta here by the end of 2007.