Nov. 2001: Analysis of LB Municipal Code Sections Requiring LB Councilmembers To Cast Vote If Present in Chamber; Mayor O'Neill says she hasn't enforced section requiring permission to leave unless close to losing quorum

Jan. 2001: Transcript (as delivered) of Mayor O'Neill's "State of the City" Address, January 9, 2001

Jan. 2001: Some Mythology From Mayor O'Neill's Past "State of City" Speeches

Aug. 2000: Retrospective -- LB Mayor O'Neill Delivers "CAVE People" Address While Attending Democrat Convention; Verbatim Text

April 2007: Council Exempts Pending Developments From Public Safety Impact Fee; Action Estimated To Cost $2.7 Million In Revenue For Police & Fire Infrastructure; Mayor Backs Action, Councilwoman Gabelich Objects

April 2007: Council Meeting Mum On Schipske's Blog Re DC Visit

March 2007: We Learn With Considerable Confidence: Vice Mayor Bonnie Lowenthal Is Expected To Seek 54th Dist. Assembly Seat

March 2007: Council Votes 8-0 To Prepare Resolution Endorsing Sen. Lowenthal's "Port Investment" Bill SB 974; Attaches No Conditions To City Hall Support But Will Send Letter To Senator Listing Local Concerns

March 2007: Councilmembers Gabelich & O'Donnell Agendize Item To Put City Hall On Record Backing Ass'ywoman Karnette's Bill To Make Witness Intimidation Automatic Felony With Four Year Added Prison Term If Done For Criminal Street Gang

Nov. 2006: On a 5-2 vote (Yes: B. Lowenthal, S. Lowenthal, O'Donnell, Richardson, Reyes Uranga; No: Lerch, DeLong; Absent: Schipske, Gabelich), the LB City Council voted on Tuesday night to approve a "Labor Peace" ordinance applicable to certain LB hotels. A second Council vote is required. A court challenge and/or an attempt to override the ordinance with a petition-signature triggered referendum may be forthcoming.

July 2006: We Post Some Newsworthy Extended Excerpts As New Councilmembers & Mayor Take Office; Councilmembers Choose Bonnie Lowenthal As Vice-Mayor

LBReport.com is on scene as the transfer of power begins at City Hall. Gary DeLong & Gerrie Schipske take legal oath of office on Monday in City Clerk's office as LB's newest 3d and 5th district Council representatives and Bob Foster was scheduled to take the Mayor's oath outside City Hall Monday night. Re-elected incumbents were also legally sworn-in Monday. All of this ensured that power seamlessly transfered to them at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday.

July 2006: Councilmembers Vote 6-3 (O'Donnell, Gabelich, Lerch Dissenting) To Give Themselves Retirement Health Insurance Benefit, Reworded To Delete "Sick Leave" Verbiage But Substantively Paralleling Benefit Council Gave Exiting Mayor O'Neill In May; City Att'y Shannon Says Council's Actions Are Not "Golden Handshake"; We Post Extended Transcript Excerpts

Nov. 2005: Senate OK's Continued C-17 Production While Pentagon Studies U.S. Airlift Capabilities

Sept. 2005: Councilmembers Revise Proposed '06 Office Budgets

Sept. 2005: Official Budget Doesn't Detail -- But We Do -- Sums That Councilmembers Propose To Run Their Offices in FY 06

Dec. 2004: Editorial: When Sixty Seconds Isn't Enough

Dec. 2004: Follow-Up re $3 Million Amendments To Construction Management Consultant Contracts: Council Votes 9-0 To Approve; Mgt. Sends Second Memo Prior To Vote; We Post Memo & Transcript Of Council Proceedings (approx. 60 seconds)

Dec. 2004: City Mgt. Asks Council To Approve $3 Million More -- Double Original Amt. -- For Three Current Public Works "Construction Management" Consultant Contracts

Dec. 2004: Editorial: City Management's $3 Million Christmas Package

Aug. 2003: We Post Councilmembers' Proposed Budgeted Office Spending For FY 04

Aug. 2003: We Rank Councilmembers' Budgeted Office Spending In Now Ending FY 02-03 Before & After Mayoral Requested Reductions

April 2007: Vice Mayor Lowenthal Hosts Free Screening Of An Inconvenient Truth

March 2007: We Learn With Considerable Confidence: Vice Mayor Bonnie Lowenthal Is Expected To Seek 54th Dist. Assembly Seat

Jan. 2007: City Hall Ready To Bring Hammer Down On Fugitive Shopping Carts

Aug. 2006: Extended Council Discussion, Revelations, 6-1 Council Vote (Reyes Uranga Dissenting, B. Lowenthal & S. Lowenthal Absent Per City Att'y Advice) In Workers Comp Payment To Vice Mayor Bonnie Lowenthal Re 2004 Kerry Event

Editorial: Calling A Tail A Leg
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CounterPunch: Yes On Vice Mayor Lowenthal's Worker Comp Claim

Councilwoman Bonnie Lowenthal Filed Workers Comp Claim For Injuries Exiting John Kerry's '04 Campaign Jet; Council Will Vote On City Attorney Recommended Award: $10,500 + Provision For Lifetime Medical Care As Necessary

July 2006: Councilmember Suja Lowenthal & Vice Mayor/Councilmember Bonnie Lowenthal Jointly Propose Banning "Cruising" On Pine Ave. b/w Ocean Blvd.-7th St.

Feb. 2006: Shopping Cart Ordinance To Return To Council With Controversial Amendment Requiring City Hall To Notify Stores When Their Carts Are Off-Premises & Give Stores 24-Hours To Retrieve Carts Before Fine

May 2005: LB Councilwoman Lowenthal Elected To Governing Board of Major Transportation Agency: L.A. County MTA

April 2005: "Better Balance For LB" Says Multiple City Hall Agencies Have Agreed To Coordinated Approach Re Nuisance and Law-Flouting Activities In "14th St. Park"; Activist Says She'll "Trust But Verify"

Jan. 2005: Councilwoman Lowenthal Requests Update on 14th St. Park Master Plan

Dec. 2004: News / Perspective: Awakening A Sleeping Giant: LB Activists Vow To Empower Nuisance & Crime-Impacted Neighborhood And Hold City Hall Accountable

Aug. 2003: Councilmembers Lowenthal, Baker, Richardson & Reyes-Uranga Want Council To Oppose Prop 54 (Racial Privacy Initiative)

March 2001: Bonnie Lowenthal Elected 1st District Councilmember

May 2007: Councilwoman Suja Lowenthal Seeks Taxpayer-Paid Feasibility Study For East-West Streetcar Service Linking Downtown And "Vital Points of Interest"

April 2007: Coastal Comm'n Alternate Member Says He Wasn't Told Why He's Being Replaced By LB Councilwoman Suja Lowenthal

April 2007: Councilwoman Suja Lowenthal Is Appointed Alternate Member On CA Coastal Comm'n

March 2007: Councilwoman Suja Lowenthal Announces "Roadmap" to Unveiling 766 Overnight 2nd Dist. Parking Spaces With More Promised

March 2007: East Village Arts Park Celebrated At Re-Opening

July 2006: Councilwoman Suja Lowenthal Agendizes Three-Item Package To Deal With 2nd District Parking Shortage

July 2006: Councilmember Suja Lowenthal & Vice Mayor/Councilmember Bonnie Lowenthal Jointly Propose Banning "Cruising" On Pine Ave. b/w Ocean Blvd.-7th St.

June 2006: We Post Second District Councilmember Suja Lowenthal's Speech On Being Sworn Into Office [updated with power point photos]