Here’s coverage of Long Beach Police Chief Anthony Batts’ impending departure for Oakland–where he’ll become that city’s police chief–from three different news organizations with varying approaches.
Firstly, here’s LBReport.com, where Bill Pearl ledes with this: “One day after presenting a budget demanded by LB city management (and recommended by Mayor Bob Foster) that, if implemented by [...]

Ryan ZumMallen of LBPost.com gets the interview no other reporter has been able to secure—with Naples resident Tom Dean, on the day the well-connected developer’s controversial land swap goes before the Long Beach city council.
Dean tells ZumMallen that tonight it’s now or never—that if the council does not approve the trade of the city’s public service yard for some [...]

The Press-Telegram weighs in with its wetlands story Saturday morning, and I have to say: after recent events, I can definitely see one direction things could go after the illegal wetlands grading that went on Thursday and Friday.
But first a couple quotes from the story, by Joe Segura. Then you’ll see it too. Here’s the [...]

Okay, so does any of this sound weird to you?
Two days after The District Weekly’s Dave Wielenga writes about developer Tom Dean and Long Beach Public Works director Mike Conway negotiating over the Los Cerritos Wetlands–talks that included Dean asking Conway for some city asphalt–trucks are out there at the wetlands spreading asphalt.
Strange? Peculiar? Maybe. [...]

Mayor Bob Foster declined an invitation from the Long Beach Press Club to debate Measure I—the property tax increase he’s been non-stop-promoting to voters since August—and the managing editor of LBPost.com thinks the mayor’s silence speaks volumes. In fact, that’s the headline on the editorial posted this morning by the online publication’s managing editor, Ryan ZumMallen. [CLICK HERE TO [...]