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 [...]

It’s happening again, this time to The Daily Breeze–a newspaper which, like our own Press-Telegram, is owned by Dean Singleton’s MediaNews Group, and whose own Gene Maddaus gave us much–but not all–the recent coverage of Rep. Laura Richardson’s (D-Long Beach) hijinks. And lo-jinks!
Yes, The Breeze is on the hoof, fleeing its iconic, blue-tiled, 43-year home [...]

At least, that’s what people who know him might call the man who wants to unseat Laura Richardson

They really do call him Mr. Dibs–at least, his students do, and somewhere more than 1,000 of his potential constituents. You, on the other hand, might say “Who are you?” and “Stop trying to touch my ballot!”

Mayor Bob Foster is expected to say more this morning about his $570 million plans to rebuild streets, sidewalks and alleys–plus the more bureaucratic-sounding storm water management systems–but already we know more than we did about what’s in store.
In this morning’s Press-Telegram, Paul Eakins reports on a 102-page streets audit City Auditor Laura Doud released [...]

Yes, it appears to be true.
You remember the Sacramento house which now-Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Long Beach) purchased during her brief time last year as a state assemblywoman–after she left Long Beach City Council and before she ran and was elected to United States Congress last year?
And you remember how Richardson stopped paying her mortgage on [...]