Just when you thought Congressional Rep. Laura Richardson (D-efault) was settling into a long, boring career in Washington, the Los Angeles Times‘ Steve Lopez tells us that it ain’t so. She’s still racking up more bills, just on other people’s money.
This time, as Lopez reports, Richardson managed to get herself and her entire staff an [...]

City tree-planting workshop looks at how to green up your street
Those of us who live on streets where trees have either: A) fallen over and been cut to pieces recently; B) been topped by the city 25 years ago; or C) been reduced to a mere stump, should check this out—a city workshop Wednesday night [...]

Cal State Long Beach undergrads pledge to be counted this spring
It’s Census time, and as if to underscore the fact that each one of us is worth about $2,900 in federal funding—if we’re counted—Cal State Long Beach students got all inky recently to prove that they’re in the know.

Services for retired city employee Jean Comstock finally will be held Friday
Former City of Long Beach employee Jean Comstock died alone at age 79 on Sept. 24, and though her effects revealed Comstock had been making payments on a plot at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Cypress, any final resting place seemed far off indeed.

Grand openings next week of new outposts in the Bikestation empire
The District Weekly’s own Sarah Bennett forecast last month that we’d soon have more Mobis/Bikestation outposts appearing on the horizon, and now comes official word that the concept is indeed replicating itself.

First, as Councilman Val Lerch points out, voters must nominate him
More places to go Wednesday night (or not): a get-Val-Lerch-re-elected-again workshop.
The current Ninth District Councilman

Or, the arrival of another chance to get your criminal record expunged
If your past dogs you—or, let’s just hypothesize, you pled guilty to a felony strike for being mixing too much vinegar with too much baking soda, and were released with credit for time served back in, oh, 2002? And you really, really want to [...]

That’s wonder as in Stevie Wonder, who dropped in to The Cellar Sunday night
This is usually how it happens: you either know someone, or you know someone who does. In the case of The Cellar’s Joe Irwin … well, better let him tell it:

Don’t miss the Press-Telegram’s Karen Robes Meeks’ Saturday profile of Mike Murchison—this type of story doesn’t get written every day any more, for about a million reasons.
“As usual, Mike Murchison was entrenched in controversy,” Robes Meeks begins.
“But this time the bald, gruff-talking lobbyist who often interjects himself in contentious issues and projects for clients, was [...]

Councilman Patrick O’Donnell will explain, at a Monday night meeting
This spring will be a make-or-break season for the chances, some day, of breaking down all or a portion of the Long Beach Breakwater—which is probably part of what we’ll hear Monday night at Fourth District Councilman Patrick O’Donnell’s State of the Long Beach Breakwater meeting, [...]