Tues | Jan 15 Mayor Bob Foster gives his State of the City address and tells the folks who’ve paid like $100 a plate that we need money. Somebody get on that.
Wed | Jan 16 Alumnus Terry Rhodes donates $1.25 million to Cal State Long Beach saying the lessons he learned at the school helped [...]

How big was Mayor Bob Foster’s announcement Tuesday at his State of the City address that Long Beach will be the host city for the 2009 TED Conference? Not too. The annual gathering is by invitation only, and organizers only send out 1,000 invitations.
But how important was Foster’s announcement? Pretty darn — which I learned a [...]

If anybody from the Press-Telegram was actually inside the Grand Salon of the Queen Mary for Tuesday’s meeting of the Long Beach Rotary Club — where downtown restaurateur John Morris gave his practical-yet-visionary State of the City address — I sure didn’t see them. Nothing showed up in the P-T the next day, either.