In case you missed it, Sunday Press-Telegram columnist Tom Hennessy weighed in yesterday on keeping Main Library open, for what we believe is his first column on the topic.
We won’t keep you in suspense; he’s in favor of it.
The columnist recalls an event called Celebrate Reading Day, and writes, “… it is difficult for me [...]

The core of downtown Long Beach will become a little bit more of a ghost town when Z Gallerie abandons the century-old Masonic Temple it has called home since the mid-1990s, according to a story by Press-Telegram reporter Karen Robes Meeks [CLICK HERE], and it might not have happened if city officials hadn’t been snoozing—or something—instead of returning the [...]

There’s good news in this morning’s Los Angeles Times for the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, according to reporter Ronald D. White.
“For the longest time, we used to joke that our biggest export was our fine California air,” Eric Caris, assistant director of marketing for the Port of Los Angeles, told White. Not [...]

There’s some interesting background emerging today on the proposed sale of City Hall East–the building at the northeast corner of First Street and Long Beach Boulevard, where Long Beach Police Department relocated a few years ago while its longtime downtown home was remodeled.
According to today’s Press-Telegram, Long Beach City Council on Tuesday will consider selling [...]

You can tell the latest Gene Maddaus story on Congresswoman Laura Richardson’s Sacramento house is a, well, intriguing development from the howls of protest on the Press-Telegram’s website.
(Full disclosure: Maddaus is a reporter for The Daily Breeze in Torrance, whose stories are picked up by the P-T, which is part of the same newspaper chain.)
Perhaps [...]

Tues | AUG 12 The Los Angeles Times covers the FAA investigation of the supposed failure of “dozens” of oxygen masks during the emergency landing last week of an American Airlines 757 after a seat was not returned to its upright locked position. The masks—designed to allow comfortable oxygen flow up until final impact—may not [...]

It’s officially not official yet. Despite hearing from Mayor Bob Foster, and devoting considerable discussion to the topic, Long Beach Chamber of Commerce hasn’t decided how it feels about Hizzoner’s proposed $571 million infrastructure bond–which will be in our hands and on our ballots in November.
And it may not know how it feels until some [...]

Wow! So here it is: noted science fiction author Ray Bradbury has an open letter on the Opinion page of today’s Press-Telegram, imploring us to keep our library open.
“I recently learned of the pending forced closure of the Long Beach Main Library from public access to balance the city budget. This is heartbreak and an [...]

And what’s this about a two-year “gap in service”?

Time to leave work early today, for this afternoon’s budget study session, at 3:30 at City Hall, 333 W. Ocean Blvd.
Among the hot topics, of course, will be what to do with the city’s leaky 32-year-old Main Library

As John Canalis reports in today’s Press-Telegram, the question of whether Main Library will actually close–as recommended by City Manager Pat West and Mayor Bob Foster in the proposed Fiscal Year 2008-2009 budget, released Friday–is far from resolved.
For one thing, Long Beach City Council hasn’t even begun debating the budget yet–and ultimately, the Council is [...]