… BUT ALSO THE TRUTHS THE PAPER’S EDITORIAL WRITERS NEVER TOLD
Bill Pearl of LBReport.com breaks down, sentence by sentence, an editorial by the Press-Telegram that — depending on what you think of Long Beach’s once-great daily in these, its clearly diminished days — was either a pack of despicably calculated lies or a pathetic inability [...]

The City Council approves a bio-diesel study, turns down a bunker fuel tax

It was 12:45 p.m. yesterday, a day which turned out to be all about diesel.
First District Councilwoman Bonnie Lowenthal had 15 minutes before her next meeting and she was hungry, so we went to Smooth’s Bar and Grill–but not to eat.

As City Council members Tonia Reyes Uranga and Bonnie Lowenthal prepare to run for State Assembly, only one thing remains in their way: Prop. 93

BONNIE LOWENTHAL by ALICE RUTHERFORD
Long Beach City Council members Tonia Reyes Uranga and Bonnie Lowenthal are preparing to run against each other for the California state Assembly’s 54th District seat later [...]

WHO DO YOU THINK WON THE NIGHT?
A row of men in very fine suits — representatives of the Port of Long Beach, including executive director Richard D. Steinke and Harbor Commissioners Mario Cordero, Dr. Mike Walter and Nick Sramek — sat shoulder-to-shoulder in the third row of the Long Beach City Council chambers last night.
They [...]

Long Beach City Council members Tonia Reyes Uranga and Bonnie Lowenthal want to run for the California State Assembly’s 54th District seat this year. Before they actually go through with it, however, they’ve got to lose an election.
The candidacies of Lowenthal and Reyes Uranga hinge on the defeat of Proposition 93, the Term-Limit-Tweaking initiative on the [...]

Although Long Beach City Councilmember Bonnie Lowenthal has made extensive preparations to run for the California Assembly in 2008, her candidacy ultimately depends upon the result of a February ballot initiative that would loosen term-limit restrictions and allow incumbent Democrat Betty Karnette to run again.
Lowenthal would not challenge Karnette, a fellow Democrat who has represented the 54th Assembly District [...]

Some of the most interesting parts of last night’s Long Beach City Council discussion of apartment renters’ rights weren’t just the heartrending testimony of disabled tenants who feared being pushed out in the street by future condominium conversions–or the plain speaking from several landlords, one of whom used a phrase you don’t hear much anymore: [...]

Live bands are headed for the Puka Bar, the Wrigley area’s noted Tiki-style bar at 710 W. Willow St.–including jazz and lounge combos.
But they’ll arrive over the objections of a half-dozen nearby residents, who told Long Beach City Council Tuesday night that the bar is a difficult neighbor even when its visitors are well-behaved.

City noise committee reins in noise ordinance
On Tuesdays the City Council doesn’t meet, reporters must scour the city for a meeting–any meeting–to cover.
Fortunately, there are many. This Tuesday, a city committee you may never have heard of talked about redoing the city noise ordinance, to keep you quiet. (If  you’re too noisy.)

Long Beach City Council changes its policy on public comment

After much discussion and comments from a dozen members of the public–the largest number of audience members to comment on any item on last night’s city council agenda–Long Beach City Council voted 5-3 last night to change, and very likely restrict, the public’s ability to open [...]