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.

Yes, it’s true. For the second time, in as many times as it’s been poised to come before Long Beach City Council, the City Clerk’s office has removed tonight’s discussion of electronic billboards from the Council agenda.

Ever wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night, wondering how much this spring’s spate of Long Beach City Council and Long Beach Unified school board elections will cost us?  Maybe you should.

We told you last year that Long Beach Museum of Art wasn’t doing all that well paying off the $3 million construction bond floated in 1999 to pay for its awesome new gallery space.
Specifically, I wrote then that LBMA was making interest-only payments, and that the revenue from those electronic freeway billboards–the ones they haven’t [...]

Not really. But dedicated Long Beach City Council watchers should notice that item No. 19 under Departmental Communications on tonight’s Council agenda (it’s also denoted by the No. 08-0092) has been taken off the agenda.
Apparently, it wasn’t put on the agenda long enough before the meeting; that’s what a staff member in Third District Councilman [...]