Suja Lowenthal is among three members of the Long Beach City Council — the others are Rae Gabelich and Patrick O’Donnell — who don’t have to campaign for re-election this year because no one filed to oppose them. Trying to hold these officials to some kind of public accounting, the Press-Telegram’s John Canalis submitted questions [...]

The plan to create a pedestrian zone on one block of First Street in the East Village
A plan to close First Street to vehicle traffic between Elm and Linden Avenues in the East Village Arts District–creating a so-called pedestrian zone–got one of its first airings at Wednesday night’s East Village Association meeting, and the neighborhood [...]