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 Coverage coming LBPD West Division To Hold "Town Hall" In Cooperation w/ Councilman Garcia's Office re Shootings in Washington Middle School Area  On LBReport.com maps above: Red Xs=murders since Jan. 1, 2011; Blue Xs=Shootings since Aug. 2, 2011; Purple Xs=shooting since Aug. 2 (person missed); Green Xs=shooting since Aug. 2 at an occupied building; Brown Xs=2010 murders. Maps show portion of shootings/murders citywide Via SacBee.com: Senate President Pro Tem Steinberg tells SacBee.com's Torey Van Oot: Extending Redevelopment Agencies [SB 659] "Not Going to Happen" 19 Yr Old Charged With Murder & Attempted Murder In Noon-Hour Shooting, Orange Ave./21st St. LB School Board Member Dr. David Barton Resigns, Cites Health Reasons  CSU Board of Trustees Votes To Cap Salaries Starting This Year On Newly Hired Campus Presidents: $325,000; Sen. Lieu (Who Criticized $400,000 Salary in SD) Said He Supports This Council Gives Marina Pacifica Ten More Years To Amortize $750,000 Loan City Hall Made in 1997 Using Fed'l Community Development Block Grant Funds Action comes after city mgm't says "no downside" to deal and sales tax rebate program participation is separate LB Police Officers & Firefighters Associations' Political Arms Endorse Councilman Patrick Melody Ross Civil Trial Jury Returns Verdict For School District, Denies Damages To Ross Family  Councilwoman Schipske Won't Pursue Assembly Seat, Says She'll Focus on City Hall Issues For Remainder of Second Term...And Itemizes Multiple Items On Which She's Dissented From Current Council Majority & Mayor Foster LBReport.com Seeks, Obtains & Publishes Memo Seeking Mayor/Council Responses re City Staff-Prepared Comments re EIR on BNSF-Sought, WLB-Impacting SCIG Railyard; No Council Vote Scheduled Today (Jan. 24) On Issue With Filing Deadline Feb. 1 Public hasn't seen/heard Council responses, if any, or seen city staff's finalized filing response  OC Sheriff Endorses DeLong For Congress City Mgm't Asks Council To Give Marina Pacifica Ten More Years To Amortize $750,000 Loan City Hall Made in 1997 Using Fed'l Community Development Block Grant Funds Subsequent development above Council Avoids Recorded Vote on City Position Re WLB-Impacting BNSF-Sought SCIG Railyard Environmental Impact Report; City Mgr. Preparing Or Has Submitted City Position On EIR "Technical Issues" Following Dec. 6 Council Motion LBReport.com seeks copy of document given to Mayor & Councilmembers; no Council discussion or vote on SCIG issue scheduled for Jan. 24 Council meeting Woman Shot & Wounded in WLB (south of Wardlow Rd., west of Santa Fe Ave.) Advisory: LBReport.com's Big News Sunday webcast live as scheduled Sunday at 10:00 a.m. but we experienced a computer crash later that day (we've blown up several computers due to duty cycle overload). We're working to incorporate the VIDEO in stories coming shortly, including Q & A with the candidates seeking to become LB's new Councilmembers in districts 2, 4 and 8 (VIDEO from our LIVE Saturday webcast from Dan Pressburg's pre-election candidates' brunch: District 2: Janet Ballantyne; District 4: John Watkins & Daryl Supernaw; District 8: Lillian Kawasaki, Al Austin, Gustavo Rivera). We regret the technical issue and we're moving forward to surmount it. First (Again) on LBReport.com: City Employee Unions Representing Police & Fire Preparing To Endorse Incumbent Councilman Patrick O'Donnell As Write-In For Third Term O'Donnell initially sought Assembly seat when Bonnie Lowenthal sought state Senate; when she changed plans to seek another Ass'y term, he announced third-term Council bid Sic Transit: R & B Pioneer Johnny Otis ("Hand Jive") Passes At 90, Just Days Before Etta James ("At Last"), Whose Career He Boosted, Dies At 73 In 1950s, Otis had popular R&B radio show on Long Beach's former KFOX radio Transient Attacks Police Officer, 1400 block E. Ocean. Blvd. VIDEO: Occupy Long Beach Supporters Demonstrate Outside ELB Bank of America: "Banks Got Bailed Out, We Got Sold Out"  Follow-Up / Perspective: UPDATED: Mayor/Council-Majority Action (Inaction) To Become Redevelopment's "Successor Agency" Could Cost City Taxpayers' Gen'l Fund (Covers Police, Fire, Parks, Libraries) Sum Currently Unknown; City Mgm't Says Costs May Exceed Now Est. $1.9-$4.5 Mil State May Provide Revelation follows Council session closed to public citing a case to which City wasn't a litigation party.  LBReport.com Learns of Second "Shots-Fired" (Missed) On Jan. 17: 1600 block E. Anaheim St.  New: Two Men  Continuing Follow-Up: Sheriffs Dept. Says "Shotspotter" Gunfire Location System Recently Helped Make Handgun Arrest in Willowbrook Area DA Charges Two Alleged Gangmembers With 2008 Murders Of Five People In WLB Homeless Encampment (Near 405/Santa Fe); LBPD Investigated The Crimes  LBReport.com photo, Nov. 2, 2008 CA Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Appeal of (Appellate-Court Stricken) LB Medical Marijuana Regulation Ordinance; Court Denies Challengers' Request For Temporary Order Preventing LB From Banning Medpot Dispensaries Council voted City Attorney Shannon Acknowledges City of Long Beach "Not Technically" A Party To Redevelopment Lawsuit [Cited As Basis For
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New: LB School Board Votes To Oppose Certifying Draft EIR As Currently Circulated For Proposed Warren Furutani, Backed By L.A. Mayor & Unions, Trounced In L.A. Council Bid By Newcomer Joe Buscaino, An L.A. Cop Who Ran As An Outsider Promising New Voice At City Hall & Support For Public Safety Budgets Gov. Brown's State of State Message: Choose Between Higher Taxes Or Cuts To Schools/Core Services CA Republican Legislators' Response to Gov. Brown's State of the State We Find No Record of City of Long Beach As Party Councilwoman Schipske Launches OpenUpLongBeach.com, Website & Project To Make LB City Hall "More Open, Transparent & Collaborative" w/ Residents  Website screen save Jan. 17 www.openuplongbeach.com Subsequent development above: LB City Hall Quietly Lets Deadline Pass To L.A. City Hall analysis presents pros and cons, L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa urges against L.A. becoming successor agency, L.A. Council votes 9-3 NOT to become L.A. RDA Successor Agency citing costs and potential exposures  DA's Office Charges LBPD Officer With Multiple Counts of Assaulting & Threatening His Wife Subsequent action above: Alleging Adverse Impacts on Nearby Schools, LBUSD Top Mgm't Advises School Board To Oppose Certifying Draft EIR For Proposed New / Advisory: Motorcycle Rider Dies After Striking Vehicle, 7th/Redondo Gunfire Reportedly Exchanged Between Two Persons On Opposite Sides of LB Blvd. @ at 69th St. (NW LB)  UPDATE: Reunited In a release Mon. afternoon (Jan. 16), LBPD says 74 year old Sandra Mata, reporting missing yesterday, was found at a hospital in Torrance today at 10:45 a.m. where an officer was dropping off fliers...and is now reunited with her family. Ms. Mata was brought to the hospital "unharmed and in good condition after being found in Carson the night before," LBPD says in a release. LBPD also notes that it offers a program called "Safe Reunion/Long Beach" in which the participant wears an emergency locator bracelet, which can be activated when he or she goes missing. The bracelet is free to those that suffer from a cognitive disorder. For more information about the Safe Reunion/Long Beach Program, LBPD invites the public to call  Passage: Retired LBFD Capt. Bob Caldon, Sic Transit (Jan. 15, 2012) -- LBReport.com is saddened to report the loss of retired LBFD Capt. Bob Caldon, who suffered a stroke while playing golf with friends. He was 62...MORE  City Council Candidate Election Line Up: In Detail: By the Numbers: LB's Police Staffing Is Now Below Level When Mayor O'Neill Took Office (1994) Supporter of Downtown Homeowners Unite -- Janet Ballantyne -- To Run Against Vice Mayor Suja Lowenthal in April 2012 Election; Grassroots Group Has Spoken Out Against Attempted Assessment On Downtown Residents By Downtown LB Associates  Photo source: Ballantyne for Council campaign Perspective: Man Murdered (Jan. 11) Predawn, Area  Shooting (Jan. 9), 1600 block Locust Ave.  Shooting (Jan. 9), 2100 block Cerritos Ave.  Opinion: Council Should Appoint "Green Ribbon" Task Force To Create Better Medical Marijuana Ordinance by Diana Lejins Council Approves "Downtown Plan," Inviting Increased Density With Less Environmental Impact Review Required For Developers  With AUDIO / Stunner: 2nd/PCH Developer David Malmuth Addresses Council, Raises Possibility Of New Vote on Project; Hear His Comments & Reaction From Councilman DeLong 
Perspective: Mayor Foster's State of City Message Signals Coming Changes, Perhaps Final Curtain, For Current Independent LB Redevelopment Agency Board & Related Groups Mayor/Council Major Redevelopment Move: On 24 Hrs Notice, Mayor Foster Agendizes Meetings Tuesday Jan. 10 w/ Community Dev'ment Advisory Comm'n & LB Housing Development Co. (On Their Future Roles) & LB Redevelopment Agency (To Discuss Its Future Role & Responsibilities)...And Just Hours Later, Council Will Hold Previously Scheduled Closed Session Re Case In Which CA Supreme Court Ended Local Redevelopment LBReport.com Seeks Documents Showing What City Hall Has & Hasn't Done Re ShotSpotter (Gunfire Location) System  |
Heard LIVE Sunday, Big News Sunday examines what LB City Hall has and hasn't done to implement "ShotSpotter" gunfire location system. Hear LA Sheriff Century Station Watch Commander (where it's up and running); see LB City Mgt. Sept 2011 memo...and ("Amnesia File") recall LBPD Chief McDonnell's words in July 2010. Launch segment, click here. Multiple Shots Fired, Man Lightly Wounded, Area Harding St/DeForest Ave.  UPDATE: Man Dies in NLB Drive-By Shooting, LB Blvd/68th St; Another Man Is Wounded  FURTHER UPDATED: Councilman O'Donnell Drops Ass'y Run, Will Pursue Third Term Council Write-In; Declared Council Candidates Supernaw & Watkins Say They're In The Council Race To Win; FURTHER UPDATE: Candidate Herlinda Chico Suspends Her Campaign Indefinitely, Will Support O'Donnell Predawn Shots Fired (Jan. 5), No One Appears Hit, Area 1900 block Henderson Ave.  Purple X's indicate shots without person hit. Red X's include 2011 murders. We haven't updated our color coding yet for 2012 murders. Brazen Noon Hour Attack Area 21st/Orange, Just Blocks From MLK Park: Suspect Shoots At Two Men, One Is Hit And Dies In First LB Murder of 2012  Red X's include 2011 murders. We haven't updated our color coding yet for 2012 murders. With Audio: 2nd dist. Council Candidate Robert Wideman Appears To Have First Registered to Vote In Oct. 2011, Acknowledges As Much To LBReport.com And Discusses Plastic Bag Ban, City Hall Budget, Bike Lanes, Medpot Outlets, Same-Sex Marriage And His Proposed Sports Stadium @ PCH/Walnut (6th dist)  In VIDEO carried LIVE on LBReport.com: Gov.. Jerry Brown introduced his 2012-13 budget proposal on Thursday (Jan. 5) at a Sacramento news conference (yes, on short notice; someone in his administration accidentally put the budget documents online early). The Governor indicated that his proposed budget is based on voters approving his "tax plan" (ballot measure would increase state sales tax by a half-cent and raise income taxes starting at $250,000 for single filers)...but with nearly $5 billion in "trigger cuts" to higher education and K-12 school funding if the tax ballot measure fails. "Let's get the taxes, the cuts, and California will be in a better place," Gov. Brown said. During reporters' Q & A, the Governor said that if tax ballot measure fails, Prop 98 will be affected and schools will be cut. Re Redevelopment, the Governor noted that CA Supreme Court invalidated the legislature's new Redevelopment system with payments to support specific programs and upheld the state's elimination of the former system. He said that he proposed cutting Redevelopment last year because state is short of money and "core services trump Redevelopment." LASD Says Courtroom Inmate At Sentencing Slips His Handcuffs, Runs From LB Courtroom; He Jumps/Falls From Courthouse 3rd Floor Amid Foot Pursuit by LASD Deputies And Is Deceased UPDATED w/ SCAQMD Comments; NRDC, Phys. For Social Resp-LA + Communities for Better Environment Charge U.S. EPA Is Letting SCAQMD Avoid Monitoring Freeway Pollutants, Seek Fed'l Appeal Court Review Groups want fwy monitors for pollutants impacting those living nearby LBPD Says 33-Yr Old LB Man, Arrested/Booked on Drug Charge, Attempts Suicide Less Than Two Hours After Being Placed in LB Jail Cell; He Dies At LB Hospital Occupy Long Beach Exits Lincoln Park, Moves Its Daily "General Assembly" Meetings To Bixby Park Long Beach Ends 2011 With Fewer Murders Than In 2010 Insight: Why I Hate January 3 by Lisa Ramelow Ms. Ramelow, who owns and operates La Strada restaurant in Belmont Shore, is a ubiquitous and tireless public presence in Long Beach. With VIDEO Link: Local Comm'l Realtor Brian Russell In Rose Parade With Rotary Int'l Float, Volunteer LB Mounted Police Part of Rose Parade Near-Grand Finale  Photo source: Justin Rudd Facebook page New Year's Day Midnite Hour WLB Shooting: 1200 block W. Burnett St. Man Who Allegedly Fired Handgun Into Air On New Year's Eve (And Allegedly Sought To Walk Away From Arriving Officers) Is Arrested, And Another Man Is Shot/Wounded by LBPD After Alleged Assault w/ Deadly Weapon on Police Officer Guest Opinion: End Comfortable Numbness, Fund Replenishment Police & Fire Academy Classes Now by Val Lerch, former Long Beach Vice Mayor and (December 30, 2011) -- When I hear of another murder or shooting in our great City, when I hear that property crimes are up, and when I hear fire response times are increasing, the opening words of Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb, go running through my head. Hello? Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone at home?...MORE. (Photo below: June, 2010)  LBPD Will Monitor Live Video On New Year's Eve From Mobile Security Cams, Borrowed From Port, Parked Along 2nd St. In Belmont Shore & In Aquarium Area To Maximize PD Resources (December 30, 2011) -- What is this mobile thing (spotted by an LBReport.com reader, thank you) visible in two locations Thursday (Dec. 29) along Second Street in Belmont Shore? The one in the photo (right) is near Covina Ave (roughly 5200 block) and there's another one along 2nd St. in about the 5000 block. And we've learned there is or will be a third one downtown in the Aquarium area...MORE  UPDATED: With Clarifying Dispatch re Facebook Dispatch Indicating Justin Rudd Was Talking With Friends About A (Second) Run For Third District City Council Foghorns Serenade Foggy Long Beach (Dec. 29-30), And Seem Louder, Many Say Perspective / Appreciation: See/Read Retired Postal Mgr./Long Beach Resident's Devastating Comments on Proposed Closure of 2300 Redondo Ave. Postal Facility See What El Dorado Audubon Volunteers Saw During Christmas Bird Count by Mary Parsell, President El Dorado Audubon   CA Supreme Court Upholds Sac'to Legislature's Power to Dissolve (Now Former) Local Redevelopment Agencies & Strikes Down Legislature's Newly Enacted System That Allowed Redevelopment With Local Payments to Sac'to For Schools/Special Districts LB Mayor Bob Foster: "Regrettably, no one 'wins' with today's decision. Eliminating the economic benefits of redevelopment is neither good for cities, nor the long-term fiscal health of the State. It is the worst possible time to eliminate investments in communities that create opportunities for job growth and increase the state's tax base for the future. Closer to home, we are going to take things one step at a time with the Long Beach Redevelopment Agency. It will take some time to assess some of the provisions within the ruling and how each will impact the City and our local RDA team. We will do everything possible to minimize disruptions to the public and continue our work on moving this City forward." Gov. Jerry Brown: "Today’s ruling by the California Supreme Court validates a key component of the state budget and guarantees more than a billion dollars of ongoing funding for schools and public safety." AND Redevelopment Decided For Now, LBUSD Awaits Governor's Upcoming Budget Plan (Jan. 2012) & Sac'to Lawmakers' Response To Spanning Est. $13 Billion FY12-13 Deficit Will Sac'to lawmakers protect or cut K-12 funding? LBPD/LBUSD Officers Arrest Six Suspects -- On Xmas Day -- In Two LB School Comm'l Burglaries; Four Are Charged To Date Following the Council vote on the 2nd/PCH development, the Council voted in a matter of seconds (with no Council discussion) to cancel its Jan. 3 Council meeting |
Perspective: What Did Councilman Garcia Tell/Not Tell His Constituents About Crime In Their Neighborhoods And His Voted Actions?
Ass'yman Hall Drops Out of Congressional Race, Cites Need For Dem Unity As Congressional Incumbents Laura Richardson & Janice Hahn Battle Over Newly Drawn District Shots From Group Of Five Men Miss Victim, 3100 block Artesia Blvd. (recently learned from Dec. 26)  Man (Adult) Shot, Area 10th St/Ohio Ave.  Man (Adult) Shot, Area Elm Ave/Hullett St. (NLB)  Man (Adult) Shot, 1600 block Cedar Ave. (Dec. 23)  Via GreaterLongBeach.com: Poor (Laura) Richardson's Almanac: Little Money, Lots of Anger (cites stories in NYTimes.com and Politico.com) Police Chief Memo Cites Crime Stats For First 9 Mos. of 2011 Thinner Blue Line: LBPOA Publication Says 19 Current LB Officers Exited This Year And A "Very Large Group" Will Retire In December Consumer Alert: DA's Office Warns of "Robo-Call" Scams Seeking Sensitive Banking Info How/Where To Recycle Your Xmas Tree  Photo Essay: Christmas In Naples...And At Annual Free Xmas Meal @ Reef Restaurant
by Diana Lejins   Mike Kowal's Time Expires To VIDEO: Long Beach Jr. Concert Band Drum Unit Marches To Home Of ELB Man With Cerebral Palsy, Gives Him His Christmas Wish: A Drum...That He Plays Right Away   UPDATED w/ Statement by Councilman Johnson: Johnson Recall Fizzles, Release Says Unnamed Financial Backers Broke Their Words   VIDEO & Photos: Did You See This on Christmas Eve? LBFD/LBPD Caravan Delivered "Spark of Love" Donated Toys To Deserving Families   VIDEO Special Event Coverage: On-Demand: See/Hear 58th Daisy Ave. Christmas Tree Lane Parade
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Photo Essay: LB Celebrates Christmas In Wrigley: 51 Photos of the Daisy Ave Parade + Entertainment + Displays + Tree Lighting
Perspective: Long Beach Gang Violence As "One" City
