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Forget the fact that Microsoft desperately wants to buy up Yahoo! (and that Yahoo! owns Flickr) and join our brand new Flickr pool. We want to get your take on life in Long Beach (and beyond!): the dirty beaches, beautiful sunsets, vacant lots–anything and everything that catches your eye from here to wherever your car [...]

A Press-Telegram editorial reveals that the paper’s editorial board supports the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce effort to recall troubled and controversial school board member Michael Shane Ellis. No surprise there.
But with a simple, parenthetical sentence the P-T also acknowledges that a member of its editorial board, publisher Dave Kuta, is also a Chamber board [...]

That’s fair, right? No, it’s not
A group of young cads and layabouts was busy downtown as the Christmas holiday approached,

The remains of Johnie’s Broiler–one of Southern California’s last large-scale drive-in restaurants, where custom cars were king and even the food was fast–needs your help.
It’s been nearly a year since a man driving a bulldozer managed to flatten most of the 1958 Downey landmark. What’s left of the Googie-style restaurant–replete with flagstone, exuberant script and [...]

THIS JUST IN (the Press-Telegram, that is): “Critics of Councilman Gary DeLong have launched a Web site that implies a recall vote could be in the making.”
Another one?
No, the same one (www.solongdelong.com) that The District revealed in its Writing Shotgun column last Saturday and that LBreport.com followed with quotes from DeLong (and journalistically responsible props to The [...]

The P-T today updates readers on  the ongoing encroachment battle on Alamitos Peninsula, making sure to note that “The Press-Telegram previously reported that the commission had launched a probe into the situation.”
And that’s true.
But that reporting only came after Dave Wielenga broke the encroachment story here in The District.

New boss, same as the old boss?
The actual primary in the 55th Assembly District race–Congresswoman Laura Richardson’s old seat–is still more than a month away.
Somewhere, people like Carson Councilman Mike Gipson, Los Angeles Community College Trustee Warren Furutani, and other well-spoken folks with a few interesting ideas are vying to win that race.
And you won’t [...]

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