If you ask some people about the first audit the city did of the Long Beach Museum of Art, they say the museum got off easy because the 2006 audit came out the same night that then-Second District Councilman Dan Baker abruptly resigned.
But really, tonight’s second audit (the third one comes next month) didn’t go [...]

The City Council’s overzealous approval in 2006 of a backassward environmental impact report (EIR) for a proposed Home Depot design center on the edge of the Los Cerritos Wetlands–a document that was ultimately rejected for its many inadequacies by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge in February of this year–may have saved Long Beach from [...]

In a strongly-worded memo to the mayor and city council members, City Manager Pat West said that the city has ended discussions with Orange-based ad company Media Management Service about erecting six electronic billboards in Long Beach.

Tues | Feb 19 Found out today there is an apartment building in Alamitos Beach that is home to 12 sex offenders. That’s right, 12 sex offenders all living under the same roof—which, coincidentally, was the original concept for Two and a Half Men. We didn’t find out about this until KFI’s John and Ken [...]

This week a new Best Buy opens at Marina Pacifica Mall, and ground-breaking is celebrated for a new Residence Inn down by the Queen Mary. How good is that?  Not as good as it could–should–have been, and not as good as city officials are trying to make it seem. Not since the City Council voted to give away millions of [...]

Horrified by the prospect of pimping out Long Beach’s name, attractions, facilities - and ultimately, its reputation - for the pocket change of private-sector sponsors, Eighth District City Councilwoman Rae Gabelich this week delivered a passionate plea for preserving the city’s dignity. “I don’t want to be known as, ‘Here’s the City of Long Beach, [...]

… BUT ALSO THE TRUTHS THE PAPER’S EDITORIAL WRITERS NEVER TOLD
Bill Pearl of LBReport.com breaks down, sentence by sentence, an editorial by the Press-Telegram that — depending on what you think of Long Beach’s once-great daily in these, its clearly diminished days — was either a pack of despicably calculated lies or a pathetic inability [...]

WHO DO YOU THINK WON THE NIGHT?
A row of men in very fine suits — representatives of the Port of Long Beach, including executive director Richard D. Steinke and Harbor Commissioners Mario Cordero, Dr. Mike Walter and Nick Sramek — sat shoulder-to-shoulder in the third row of the Long Beach City Council chambers last night.
They [...]

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.

Some of the most interesting parts of last night’s Long Beach City Council discussion of apartment renters’ rights weren’t just the heartrending testimony of disabled tenants who feared being pushed out in the street by future condominium conversions–or the plain speaking from several landlords, one of whom used a phrase you don’t hear much anymore: [...]