The Los Angeles Times‘ Ronald D. White visits the International Seafarers Center of Long Beach and Los Angeles—bunkered beneath a Long Beach (710) Freeway overpass—and discovers it, too, is hard-hit by the recession.
Just, not the seamen themselves.
“The 28 sailors are as well-mannered as young men meeting their girlfriends’ parents,” White writes of the (apparently) young [...]

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 [...]