Here’s a couple of the larger, more interesting recent examinations of the Long Beach Museum of Art audit which came out Monday–both of which get more intriguing when they stop talking numbers, and start talking about missing art.
Los Angeles Times reporter Deborah Schoch apparently talked to Museum Director Ron Nelson on Wednesday, and found out [...]

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 [...]

It’s official: at the June 17 Long Beach City Council meeting, City Auditor Laura Doud will release the first half of her agency’s audit of the Long Beach Museum of Art. The second half of the audit–including a complete inventory of the museum’s collection–is scheduled to be released in July.
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It’s on: this morning at 10, Second District Councilwoman Suja Lowenthal and a cast of city folks will ceremonially begin the demolition of four vacant businesses near Acres of Books in the so-called Broadway Block, bounded by Third Street, Broadway, Long Beach Boulevard and Elm Avenue.

Remember that Long Beach Police Department officer-involved shooting Saturday morning outside Nix Check Cashing?
It was the department’s third officer-involved shooting in two weeks, and it had a whole area of the city closed to vehicle traffic–from 10th to 14th streets and from Newport to Freeman avenues. Police, fire and SWAT units were on-scene, and a [...]

Here’s a couple interesting remembrance pieces you might have missed recently.
Firstly, singer-songwriter Dave Alvin remembers the night in 1983 that he and a group of musicians from X and The Blasters backed up the late Bo Diddley at the Music Machine in West Los Angeles.
“Whatever you do, do not play ‘the Beat!’ ” Alvin distinctly [...]

And other solutions to the high cost of pensions, and the city’s financial straits
Maybe it was the chicken in a red-wine reduction talking, but a packed room of business owners this afternoon got a handful of dire predictions at the East Anaheim Street Business Alliance’s (EASBA) annual luncheon.

How ‘Star Trek The Tour’ got stuck in Long Beach over a $200,000 bill

Remember “Star Trek the Tour,” that fantastical Queen Mary exhibit of all things Trekkie–uniforms and phasers and a real live fake Starship Enterprise? The rumor mill had it opening in San Diego last Thursday–but it’s still here, locked up in space jail, [...]

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, [...]