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TUES JAN 19 You know, we say a lot of stupid things—and when I say “we,” I mean “you.” And possibly the stupidest thing you say is that it would be nice to live somewhere that has “weather.” That it’d be nice to be in a place where the seasons change—where it’s [...]

The Downey City Council will convene in a special session today at 2 p.m. to pave the way for the arrival of a Tesla Motors assembly plant on the former NASA site adjacent to Downey Studios.
Downey Mayor Mario Guerra had revealed just such a meeting Monday when contacted by The District Weekly to confirm that [...]

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TUES SEPT 29 Got an e-mail today with “Lamest Thing Ever” typed in the subject line and, inside, a link to a YouTube video. Thoroughly expecting to see Sarah Palin once again trying to explain her reasons for resigning, I was surprised to find instead the link took me to a video [...]

Councilwoman Gerrie Schipske to Tesla Motors: save the last dance for Long Beach
Armed with a snippet of the classic “Save the Last Dance for Me”—and a photo of Downey Mayor Mario Guerra delivering a gift basket—Fifth District Councilwoman Gerrie Schipske composed a short video she dropped Sunday evening as part of a final effort to [...]

Tues | SEPT 1 Unemployment in these parts is somewhere between 12 and 13 percent, according to the Press-Telegram (and who should know better than the Press-Telegram, where unemployment is somewhere between 50 percent and “Anybody here . . . here . . . here?”). So, it comes as encouraging news that Tesla Motors CEO [...]

In case you missed it, the Press-Telegram had an interesting editorial Saturday on the Tesla Motors question of how much wooing Long Beach city officials have or haven’t done to lure the electric car maker to Boeing Company property.
“Kudos to Councilmember Schipske for turbocharging Long Beach officials to take Tesla seriously,” an editorialist writes. “Clearly, [...]

Will Tesla Motors bypass Long Beach and strike a deal with Downey, to build assembly facilities on land where workers once built airplanes–and the Apollo 11 vehicles?
The Press-Telegram’s Paul Eakins and John Canalis seem to say that’s at least possible.
After breaking the news yesterday that Downey was a finalist for the electric car plant, the [...]

Opened this week’s edition of The New Yorker to discover a long profile on Elon Musk, the 38-year-old chairman, CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors, which plans to have top-of-the-line electric cars in full production by 2011—and is considering producing some of them in Long Beach, on the property where Boeing used to make [...]

After debate, city council asks for an update on wooing the automaker

Sometimes even seemingly routine items on Long Beach City Council’s agenda get a thorough airing.
So it was Tuesday with Fifth District Councilwoman Gerrie Schipske’s request that city staff update her, the rest of the council, and all of us on the city’s progress in [...]

They’re listed in our newly-proposed city budget as potential revenue generators. Now Councilwoman Gerrie Schipske wonders what’s new with Tesla Motors and Long Beach Studios
The line went dead again back in April on the possibility of bringing either electric car maker Tesla Motors or would-be Hollywood moguls Long Beach Studios to 79 acres of Boeing [...]