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 [...]

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 [...]

Guess who had the best weekend ever? Why it’s our running-unopposed-in-November Congresswoman Laura Richardson (D-Long Beach)! Yay!
As the Daily Breeze’s Gene Maddaus reported Saturday, if you missed it, Richardson finally officially got her house in Sacramento back. (Meaning … house-warming gifts, or no?)
Quick refresher: this is the house in Sacramento which the congresswoman purchased during [...]

You might have missed this, but The Associated Press’s Erica Werner covered the annual release Monday of congressional disclosure reports, in hopes it would shed some light on that whole Congresswoman Laura Richardson (D-Long Beach) thing.
“In earlier disclosure forms filed in May, the first-term Democrat listed no liabilities, although reports emerged late last month she [...]

Per her website and the public record, Congresswoman Laura Richardson (D-Long Beach) is a former Olympic athelete, a former six-year member of Long Beach City Council, a former state Assemblywoman (briefly)–and now a member of Congress seeking re-election. With all that public service, you’d think she could handle a little criticism.
I’m looking at the third [...]

Can you beat this? More unpaid bills for Congresswoman Laura Richardson (D-Long Beach), and this time they’re big ones.
As reported by Capitol Weekly’s Anthony York (and tipped here locally by Kevin Roderick’s LAObserved.com), Richardson’s Sacramento house–which she purchased in January 2007, shortly after being elected to State Assembly–has been foreclosed on.
Why? Turns out Richardson, [...]

You can kill the Assemblyman’s rail yards bill, but his heart will go on … talking air quality

It was 10 a.m. Tuesday morning and eighteen hours earlier, Assembly Bill 2332–fledgling 55th District Assemblyman Warren Furutani’s (D-Long Beach) try at banning construction of new or expanded railyards within a quarter-mile of schools–had rather quietly burned to [...]