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Riverpark Coalition Will Team With Councilman Austin On Dominguez Gap Park and Butterfly Preserve, Sues City To Require EIR For Austin/City Hall-Enabled 3701 Pacific Place Development And Separately Seeks Non-Profit Status To Enable Long-Term Advocacy For Green Space From Dominguez Gap To Wardlow Rd

Lakewood Spokesman Says Its City Council's Adopted "Legislative Platform" (Statement of General City Policies) Enabled It To Send Letter Critical Of Three Of DA Gascón's Policies Without Further Agendizing Or Public Discussion
Agendized Action Didn't Mention Gascón Nor Did Any Lakewood Councilmembers Who Signed Letter Critical Of Those Policies
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Follow-up above First (Again) on LBREPORT.com: All Five Lakewood Councilmembers Sign/Send This Letter Critical Of DA Gascón Policies; Letter Surfaces Without Agendized Council Action; A Dozen City Councils Have (Thus Far) Voted "No Confidence" in Gascón, Facing Recall; City of Long Beach Mayor/Council = Zzzzzzzzz

AUDIO: Mayor Says Queen Mary Should Be Preserved, Contends City Has Tried "For Past 40 Yrs" To Get QM Right, Blames Lack Of Right Partner And Right Preservation Plan

In Depth / Perspective: Residents Battle City Hall Over Cellular Antennas And Towers As Councilmembers Maintain "Code of Silence" On Discussion Of Neighborhood Impacts Not Required By Locally Preemptive Fed'l/State Laws
LB Vice Mayor/CD 9 Richardson Is Gov't Affairs Rep For Firm That Installs Cell Towers

Brazen Broad Daylight Drive-Up Shooting, Suspects Drive To 1400 block Santa Fe (CD 1/Zendejas), Exit Vehicle, Shoot At 2 Victims, Drive Off; Rounds Miss

City Hall "Membership" Perks Consume $1.2 Mil ($350,000+ From Gen'l Fund)

Gunfire In Alley 5900 Linden (CD 9/Richardson Near Michelle Obama Library); PD Says Male Victim And Male and Female Suspects Know Each Other

Three Shootings In A Little Over Five Hours Leave Man Wounded In 4100 block E. Willow (just west of Lakewood Blvd./CD 4 Supernaw); Casings Found (CD 1/Zendejas), Residential Bldg Struck (Border CD 1/CD 6 Zendejas/Saro)

Sic Transit: Inge Cristiano, Family Matriarch And (With Late Husband Vincenzo) Beloved Operator of Former Iconic Nino's Italian Restaurant

Inge Cristiano with daughter Carina, May 2018.

Community Hospital Doesn't Include Licensed Coronary Care Beds
License allows roughly half of otherwise available Intensive Care And General Acute Care beds

Uranga Family's Youngest Son Tito (A Dad In His 30s) Is Battling A Rare Cancer; To Help His Family Herlinda Chico Launches "Go Fund Me" Appeal

Supernaw and Allen Block Committee Discussion On Naming South St. Greenspace "Pressburg Parkway"
Proposal initiator Richardson or other Councilmember(s) can agendize item for full Council vote

Another CD1 (Zendejas) Shooting: Building and Two Unoccupied Vehicles Struck By Gunfire: 1700 block Locust

Fed'l Environmental Protection Agency Slaps Down Garcia-Co-Authored I-710 Metro Expansion Motion For Trying To Bypass Federally Req'd Detailed Air Quality Review
Says Garcia-Solis advocated "Clean Trucks Program" even if fully implemented would worsen air quality, EPA says project requires federally compliant hot-spot analysis

Part of NLB's "Uptown Commons" Comm'l Development Struck By Overnight Gunfire In Possible Burglary

Man Is Shot/Wounded Standing In Front Of His Home, 400 block E. 55th St. (CD 8/Austin)

Another South Wrigley Shooting: 2000 block Chestnut (CD 6/Saro); No Person(s) Hit; LBPD Arrests Suspect

Armed Robbery @ Walmart (Towne Ctr, Carson St. near 605)

Shooting Wounds Man, Area PCH/Pacific (border CD1/Zendejas-CD6/Saro); Less Than A Week Earlier, A Man Was Shot/Wounded Two Blocks North (CD6/Saro)

Sac'to Bill Would Reduce Charges/Sentences For Shootings And Gun Related Crimes. Supporters Say Tough Gun Sentences Show Systemic Racism By Disproportionately Affecting People of Color
Councilmembers fail to discuss bill or its consequences in shooting-plagued Long Beach neighborhoods

Here Are Gov, Newsom's Five Choices (Under 2020's AB 3121 That He Signed) For Nine Member "Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, with a Special Consideration for African Americans Who are Descendants of Persons Enslaved in the United States"
Two Others Will Be Chosen by State Senate President Pro Tem Plus Two by Assembly Speaker

Long Beach Population Drops Along With LA County And CA...But Some Cities Grow

Congresswoman Barragán (D, Carson/NLB/Compton) Seeks $250,000 In FY 22 Fed'l Taxpayer Funds For NLB's Michelle Obama Library

Confirmed: State Senate Rules Committee Soliciting Names Of LA County and OC Supervisors, Mayors & Councilmembers To Fill Coastal Comm'n Seat (Term Expiring) Currently Held By LB Councilman Uranga

Police Arrest Transient In 2020 Fatal Stabbing Of Transient, Ocean Blvd/Promenade North

Feds Cap LB Convention Ctr Migrant Minor Intake At 800 (Instead Of Contracted 1,000) After 6.6% (47 of 710) Test Positive For COVID-19; Move Reserves Space If Any More COVID-19 Cases Arise

Subsequent development above Will Councilman Uranga Remain On Or Vanish From CA Coastal Comm'n? His Term Expires May 20; There Are No Term Limits; Choice By State Senate Rules Committee Has Historically Been Made Behind Closed Doors With No Confirmation Hearing/Public Input

Perspective / Viewpoints

Op-Ed: Into the Bowels of the Queen Mary
by Geraldine Knatz, Ph.D *
* Dr. Knatz was Exec. Director of the Port of Los Angeles (2006-January 2014) prior to which she held management positions dealing with planning and environmental issues at the Port of Long Beach.

Editorial: From Long Beach to Pomona, Reporters Faced Federally-Desired, Locally-Enabled Block That Manipulated Media Coverage Of Migrant Minor Detention Facilities. That's Not OK.

Open Letter to Long Beach Council: I'm Leaving Long Beach Because You've Let Parts Of 1st Council District Descend Into Gunfire Ridden, Trash Filled, City Enabled Squalor
by Emily Mastren *
* The author, a young woman with an infant daughter, lives in the neighborhood just north of 7th St. west of Alamitos/MLK Ave. in the 1st Council district represented since December 2019 by Councilwoman Mary Zendejas

Editorial: Council Can And Should Tie Public/Press Transparency String to Aquarium Operator's Request For $5 Mil Loan

Editorial: LBCC Trustees Should Publicly Release Benchmark Investigations Report And Stop Further Billable Legal Fees In Political Vendetta Against Trustee Sunny Zia

Independently produced VIDEO opinion ("The Memo") by Franklin Sims

Att'n LB Dems: Now's Your Moment To Apply Political Velcro To Some of Cindy Allen's Campaign Enablers. Here's How

Follow-up aboveAtt'n LB Dems: Want To Apply Political Velcro To Some of Cindy Allen's Council Campaign Enablers? It's Easy But You Have To Act Fast

Editorial: City Attorney's COVID Memo Omits Legal Developments, Gives Mayor/Council Political Cover To Do Nothing

Guest Commentary: My Grown-Up Votes On Ballot Measures
by Lisa Ramelow *
* Ms. Ramelow is a Long Beach writer.
"I’ve been working on staying out of politics. But I do slip every now and then..."MORE

Editorial: Eleven Years Gone, Remembering Melody Ross, Regretting Current LB School Board Election That Failed To Prioritize Ridding Campuses of Gangs

Editorial: No Longer About Explosives/Fireworks; Now It's About Lies

Might August Allegations, Downplayed By Allen During Campaign, Cost Her Newly Elected Office? Taxpayers Deserve Enforcement Agencies' Decision On The Merits

Opinion Counterpoint Councilwoman Price Says She Did -- And Does -- Support Prop 20, Cites Her Record Urging Fix For Props 47/57/AB 109 And Collecting Thousands Of Signatures to Put Prop 20 On Ballot

Opinion: Long Beach Mayor/City Councilmember(s) Could Have -- But Didn't - Agendize Item To Support Prop 20 (Reforms Parts Of Current CA Laws That Invite Business Thefts and Neighborhood Impacting Crimes)

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Here's What LB Health Dept. Says One Can Do / Not Do As It Moves City Into Yellow (Least Restrictive) COVID Tier Man Is Shot/Wounded At Midafternoon Along Wrigley's 2000 block of Pacific Ave. (CD 6) Three Shootings May 1 Within 20 Mins: Man Wounded (CD 6/Saro); Woman Wounded (CD 1/Zendejas); Car to Car Shooting (CD 1/Zendejas) Misses Hitting Victim Gunfire In Part Of Austin's CD 8 (300 block Plymouth St.), Same Block Where Gunfire Flew in Jan. In Response To Shootings, LBPD Tested Walking Cops In Area b/w LA River-LB Blvd, Anaheim-PCH. The Walking Cops Deployment Has Ended. What Now? North Wrigley Cops Coax Restraining Order Suspect Off Rooftop Screen save by Carlos Ovalle Sac'to Bill To Permanently Maintain/Increase Digital-Era Public Speaking Rights At Council Meetings Passes Key Policy Committee Would also curtail orchestrated speakers from cutting off opposing views Mayor Garcia Testifies At Virtual Hearing By House Subcommittee On "Unaccompanied Children at the Border"; He Urges Changes In Current Immigration System (He Called Broken), Advocated "Clear and Fair Pathway For Citizenship" for Undocumented Persons, Advocated A Guest Worker Program and Aid for Mexico and Central American Countries Who Did He Say Contacted Whom First About Using Convention Ctr? Hear Garbled Audio Screen save: Mayor Garcia testifies to House Subcommittee April 27, 2021 Long Beach Has Three Shootings Within 24 Hrs Subsequent coverage above Mayor Garcia Will Be One of Four Witnesses at Virtual Hearing By A House Subcommittee On "Unaccompanied Children at the Border: Stakeholder Perspectives on the Way Forward" Update: SHPD Says Walk-Up Shooting 1900 block St. Louis Left Man Wounded Subsequent development above Signal Hill PD Tight Lipped (for 12+ Hrs) Over ~~Cherry/20th St.~~ 1900 block St. Louis Shooting + Someone Shoots Into Inhabited Dwelling, 5500 block LB Blvd. (CD 8/Austin) In Detail / AUDIO: Long Beach Residents Take Action (Faced With LB City Hall Inaction) On SB 9 (Four Units on Single Family Lot); In State Senate Committee Hearing, Neighborhood Group Residents Join Lengthy List Of Cities and Neighborhood Groups Statewide Opposing Measure Co-Authored by State Senator (former Councilwoman) Lena Gonzalez Mayors of Oakland, Sacramento, San Diego, "LB Yimby" (Yes in my Backyard), Cal Chamber, American Planning Ass'n among measure's supporters; it clears State Senate Governance and Finance Committee 5-0 Is It About Children Or Revenue? To House Migrant Minors Thru Aug. 2, Taxpayers Will Pay SMG (LB Convention Ctr Operator) $35 Mil Additional nearly $1 Million is payable to City Hall for labor based hours for Police/Fire/Health Dept/City Mgt/City Attorney Downtown hotels/restaurants may separately see windfall to provide lodging/food for fed'l event staffers	City/Feds Don't Allow Reporters' Access To Convention Ctr Areas Where Migrant Minors To Be Housed But Give Tour To Electeds And Supportive Groups; City Offers Pooled Photos + Text By So Cal News Group (PT/Gazettes Operator) Butterfly is projected on wall in distance. Brittany Murray SCNG pooled photo. While Long Beach City Hall Lets Sac'to's Density Enabling SB 9 Advance, El Dorado Park South Neighborhood Ass'n Independently Submits Opposition Letter To Sac'to Committee; Other LB Groups May Put Themselves On Record Against SB 9 In Today's Sac'to Hearing "LB Yimby" and other "Yimby" (Yes in my Backyard) groups statewide plus various interest groups support measure Transient Shot To Death In North Wrigley Adjacent Encampment Allowed to Persist At S'bound 405/N'bound 710 Subsequent development above Council Sets "Study Session" (April 20, 5:30 p.m.) On "Strategies For Addressing Violent Crime." Will We Hear Chief Luna Reiterate His March Memo Blaming Pandemic, Not Council-Thinned Police Levels, For Increased Shootings? Gunfire In North Alamitos Beach (CD 2/Allen): 400 block Rose Ave. Man Shot/Wounded In NLB, 100 block W. 52nd St. (CD 8/Austin) Gunfire Strikes Multi-Unit Residence In Wrigley: 2500 block Chestnut (CD 6/Saro) Sac'to Bill Proposes Increased Digital-Era Public Speaking Rights At Council Meetings Would also curtail orchestrated speakers from cutting off opposing views Another CD6 (Saro) Shooting, A Drive-By In 1000 block of Myrtle Ave. Leaves Man Wounded; Crime Scene Is Barely A Mile And Half From Shooting (Casings Found) Less Than A Week Earlier LA River Bike Path Rider Stabbed Area PCH/Golden Man And Woman Walking In 1 a.m. Hour In 200 block of N. Pine Near Broadway Are Involved In Physical Altercation With Some Group And Man Is Stabbed In Depth / Extended AUDIO: It's Back: Sac'to's SB 9 (Co-Authored by LB State Senator Gonzalez) That Would Allow Four Housing Units (Opponents Say Six) On Single Family Home Lots Just Advanced In State Senate Committee; LB City Hall Silent (Again); State Senator Umberg Votes "Yes" Council Votes 7-1 (Uranga Dissenting) To Deny Appeals Seeking EIR, Approves RV Parking/Comm'l Storage, Not Park/Open Space, Along LA River At 3701 Pacific Place Subsequent development above City Hall Mum (Again) As Sac'to Bill To Require Increased Single Family Neighborhood Density Faces Hearing Another CD6 Shooting, Casings Found, 2200 block Myrtle (Councilwoman Saro) Wrigley Shooting, 200 block E. Spring (Near NE Corner of Veterans Park (border CD 6/Saro and CD7/Uranga) City Halts Johnson/Janssen Vax For Now Per CDC After Serious Reax For Some Elsewhere All Public Speakers On Riverpark April 13 Hearing Signed Up Within Less Than 3 Minute Period On Weds, April 7 Viewpoint: Emailed To Mayor and Council: Do the Right Thing: Require Full EIR On 3701 Pacific Place Parcel by Rae Gabelich * * Ms. Gabelich was CD8's Council rep from mid-2004 (when she unseated a Mayor-backed Council incumbent) through mid-2012. She submitted the text below (lightly shortened by us) at 12:45 p.m. April 13 to the City Clerk, Mayor Garcia and all nine Council incumbents in connection with tonight's agendized appeal hearing. Perspective: With No Discernible Political Strategy To Deal With Decisionmaking City Council, Riverpark Coalition Girds For Unhelpful Council Hearing Outcome, Readies EIR/CEQA Litigation Days Before Critical Council Hearing, City Mgm't Releases Report Claiming 3701 Pacific Place Infeasible For Open Space; Councilman Austin Embraces Report And Its Other Advised Sites; Appellant Riverpark Coalition Calls It A Sham, Charges It Contains False/Misleading Statements, Urges Its Rejection	Another Shooting in Supernaw's CD 4 (b/w Traffic Circle & Redondo, South of PCH) LBREPORT.com Vows Aggressive Use Of State and Federal Freedom of Information Laws To Disclose What Really Happened -- Including White House (Not Just FEMA and HHS) Involvement -- Re Housing For Migrant Minors At Convention Ctr CA Dept. of Corrections Conducted Thurs a.m. Operation In Long Beach As Part of Statewide Taskforce Investigating Fraud On State's Unemployment Insurance Program Two More Shootings Within Past Two Days in Zendejas' CD1: 900 block Olive, 1700 block Chestnut (Drive-By Shoots-At And Misses Multiple Adults And Juveniles) On Convention Ctr Migrant Minor Council Item, Civic Savvy Mayoral Appointees + Allies Swiftly Filled Public Speaker Slots, Created Echo Chamber Of Support, Effectively Blocked Opposition Speakers Long Beach Council Votes 9-0 To Let City Mgm't Negotiate -- Without Publicly Disclosed Terms, Responsibilities, Costs, Payments. -- Use of Convention Ctr To Temporarily House Roughly 1,000 Unaccompanied Migrant Minors Council Votes 9-0 To Seek Details To Spare Itself Future Public Accountability On Decisions Re Queen Mary And Surrounding Developable Property, Would Turn Decisions Over To NON-Elected Harbor Comm'n Pacific Merchant Shipping Ass'n Opposes Agendized Attempt By Long Beach Councilmembers Allen, Price and Zendejas To Transfer Decisionaking Control Of Queen Mary/Pier H To Harbor Dept PMSA Cites Ship's Structural, Environmental And Financial Risks, Calls For "Honest, Overdue Discussion" With Structural and Environmental Survey Before Discusing Transfer Council Refuses To Publicly Disclose City-Alleged Threats To Security Of Public Bldgs Or Public’s Right of Access to Public Services or Public Facilities In Connection With Using LB Convention Center To House Migrant Minors Re Housing Migrant Children @ Convention Center, April 6 Council Agenda Item Fogs Who Contacted City, What They Sought, Whom They Contacted, And What Still Unnamed City Officials Offered In Pursuing Tentative Deal Mayor And City Manager Fail To Respond To LBREPORT.com Inquiry Seeking Specifics On Their Roles City Cites Threats To Security Of Public Bldgs Or Public’s Right of Access to Public Services or Public Facilities.To Hold Council "Closed Session" (Public/Press Barred) Prior To Public Vote On Using LB Convention Center To House Migrant Minors Gov. Newsom Announces Ending COVID-19 Tiers Statewide On June 15, Will Lift Most -- But Not All -- COVID-19 Restrictions; See Details Here Officer-Involved Shooting 2800 block Golden Ave, After PD De-Escalation Efforts Officers Shoot/Kill An Alleged Gun-Wielding Woman; Afterward A Man Is Found Dead In Residence They Shared LBPD says officers' body cams captured what took place Double Shooting Includes Homicide In CD1 (Zendejas) Summit/Canal Neighborhood Gunfire In Willmore City (CD 1/Zendejas), Area 8th/Maine Long Beach COVID-19 Seven Day Case Rate Rises While LB Health Dept. Moves City Into Less Restrictive Orange Tier OC Moved on March 31; LA County And Pasadena Hold Back Until April 5 To Review Full Week Of Data As Newsom Admin Lets Long Beach And LA County Move Into Second Least Restrictive "Orange Tier," LB's COVID-19 Case Rate Increases After Secretive Mayor/Council Inquiry Begats City Att'y Enabling Memo, Three Councilmembers Propose Ridding Elected Mayor/Council Of Accountability For Future Of Queen Mary, Adjacent Developable Land, Carnival Cruise Terminal And All of Pier H By Giving Operation/Control Back To NON-Elected Harbor Comm'n Proposed action comes after two Council closed sessions and complete omission of the Queen Mary from Mayor Garcia's Jan. 2021 "State of the City" address...after Garcia made the ship the climactic item in his 2020 "State of the City: message

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A Few Weeks Ago

Further Past

Here's What LB Health Dept. Says One Can Do / Not Do As It Moves City Into Yellow (Least Restrictive) COVID Tier

Man Is Shot/Wounded At Midafternoon Along Wrigley's 2000 block of Pacific Ave. (CD 6)

Three Shootings May 1 Within 20 Mins: Man Wounded (CD 6/Saro); Woman Wounded (CD 1/Zendejas); Car to Car Shooting (CD 1/Zendejas) Misses Hitting Victim

Gunfire In Part Of Austin's CD 8 (300 block Plymouth St.), Same Block Where Gunfire Flew in Jan.

In Response To Shootings, LBPD Tested Walking Cops In Area b/w LA River-LB Blvd, Anaheim-PCH. The Walking Cops Deployment Has Ended. What Now?

North Wrigley Cops Coax Restraining Order Suspect Off Rooftop

Screen save by Carlos Ovalle

Sac'to Bill To Permanently Maintain/Increase Digital-Era Public Speaking Rights At Council Meetings Passes Key Policy Committee
Would also curtail orchestrated speakers from cutting off opposing views

Mayor Garcia Testifies At Virtual Hearing By House Subcommittee On "Unaccompanied Children at the Border"; He Urges Changes In Current Immigration System (He Called Broken), Advocated "Clear and Fair Pathway For Citizenship" for Undocumented Persons, Advocated A Guest Worker Program and Aid for Mexico and Central American Countries
Who Did He Say Contacted Whom First About Using Convention Ctr? Hear Garbled Audio

Screen save: Mayor Garcia testifies to House Subcommittee April 27, 2021

Long Beach Has Three Shootings Within 24 Hrs

Subsequent coverage above Mayor Garcia Will Be One of Four Witnesses at Virtual Hearing By A House Subcommittee On "Unaccompanied Children at the Border: Stakeholder Perspectives on the Way Forward"

Update: SHPD Says Walk-Up Shooting 1900 block St. Louis Left Man Wounded

Subsequent development above Signal Hill PD Tight Lipped (for 12+ Hrs) Over ~~Cherry/20th St.~~ 1900 block St. Louis Shooting +

Someone Shoots Into Inhabited Dwelling, 5500 block LB Blvd. (CD 8/Austin)

In Detail / AUDIO: Long Beach Residents Take Action (Faced With LB City Hall Inaction) On SB 9 (Four Units on Single Family Lot); In State Senate Committee Hearing, Neighborhood Group Residents Join Lengthy List Of Cities and Neighborhood Groups Statewide Opposing Measure Co-Authored by State Senator (former Councilwoman) Lena Gonzalez
Mayors of Oakland, Sacramento, San Diego, "LB Yimby" (Yes in my Backyard), Cal Chamber, American Planning Ass'n among measure's supporters; it clears State Senate Governance and Finance Committee 5-0

Is It About Children Or Revenue? To House Migrant Minors Thru Aug. 2, Taxpayers Will Pay SMG (LB Convention Ctr Operator) $35 Mil

Additional nearly $1 Million is payable to City Hall for labor based hours for Police/Fire/Health Dept/City Mgt/City Attorney

Downtown hotels/restaurants may separately see windfall to provide lodging/food for fed'l event staffers

City/Feds Don't Allow Reporters' Access To Convention Ctr Areas Where Migrant Minors To Be Housed But Give Tour To Electeds And Supportive Groups; City Offers Pooled Photos + Text By So Cal News Group (PT/Gazettes Operator)

Butterfly is projected on wall in distance. Brittany Murray SCNG pooled photo.

While Long Beach City Hall Lets Sac'to's Density Enabling SB 9 Advance, El Dorado Park South Neighborhood Ass'n Independently Submits Opposition Letter To Sac'to Committee; Other LB Groups May Put Themselves On Record Against SB 9 In Today's Sac'to Hearing
"LB Yimby" and other "Yimby" (Yes in my Backyard) groups statewide plus various interest groups support measure

Transient Shot To Death In North Wrigley Adjacent Encampment Allowed to Persist At S'bound 405/N'bound 710 Subsequent development above Council Sets "Study Session" (April 20, 5:30 p.m.) On "Strategies For Addressing Violent Crime." Will We Hear Chief Luna Reiterate His March Memo Blaming Pandemic, Not Council-Thinned Police Levels, For Increased Shootings?

Gunfire In North Alamitos Beach (CD 2/Allen): 400 block Rose Ave.

Man Shot/Wounded In NLB, 100 block W. 52nd St. (CD 8/Austin)

Gunfire Strikes Multi-Unit Residence In Wrigley: 2500 block Chestnut (CD 6/Saro)

Sac'to Bill Proposes Increased Digital-Era Public Speaking Rights At Council Meetings
Would also curtail orchestrated speakers from cutting off opposing views

Another CD6 (Saro) Shooting, A Drive-By In 1000 block of Myrtle Ave. Leaves Man Wounded; Crime Scene Is Barely A Mile And Half From Shooting (Casings Found) Less Than A Week Earlier

LA River Bike Path Rider Stabbed Area PCH/Golden

Man And Woman Walking In 1 a.m. Hour In 200 block of N. Pine Near Broadway Are Involved In Physical Altercation With Some Group And Man Is Stabbed

In Depth / Extended AUDIO: It's Back: Sac'to's SB 9 (Co-Authored by LB State Senator Gonzalez) That Would Allow Four Housing Units (Opponents Say Six) On Single Family Home Lots Just Advanced In State Senate Committee; LB City Hall Silent (Again); State Senator Umberg Votes "Yes"

Council Votes 7-1 (Uranga Dissenting) To Deny Appeals Seeking EIR, Approves RV Parking/Comm'l Storage, Not Park/Open Space, Along LA River At 3701 Pacific Place

Subsequent development above City Hall Mum (Again) As Sac'to Bill To Require Increased Single Family Neighborhood Density Faces Hearing

Another CD6 Shooting, Casings Found, 2200 block Myrtle (Councilwoman Saro)

Wrigley Shooting, 200 block E. Spring (Near NE Corner of Veterans Park (border CD 6/Saro and CD7/Uranga)

City Halts Johnson/Janssen Vax For Now Per CDC After Serious Reax For Some Elsewhere

All Public Speakers On Riverpark April 13 Hearing Signed Up Within Less Than 3 Minute Period On Weds, April 7

Viewpoint: Emailed To Mayor and Council: Do the Right Thing: Require Full EIR On 3701 Pacific Place Parcel
by Rae Gabelich *
* Ms. Gabelich was CD8's Council rep from mid-2004 (when she unseated a Mayor-backed Council incumbent) through mid-2012. She submitted the text below (lightly shortened by us) at 12:45 p.m. April 13 to the City Clerk, Mayor Garcia and all nine Council incumbents in connection with tonight's agendized appeal hearing.

Perspective: With No Discernible Political Strategy To Deal With Decisionmaking City Council, Riverpark Coalition Girds For Unhelpful Council Hearing Outcome, Readies EIR/CEQA Litigation

Days Before Critical Council Hearing, City Mgm't Releases Report Claiming 3701 Pacific Place Infeasible For Open Space; Councilman Austin Embraces Report And Its Other Advised Sites; Appellant Riverpark Coalition Calls It A Sham, Charges It Contains False/Misleading Statements, Urges Its Rejection

Another Shooting in Supernaw's CD 4 (b/w Traffic Circle & Redondo, South of PCH)

LBREPORT.com Vows Aggressive Use Of State and Federal Freedom of Information Laws To Disclose What Really Happened -- Including White House (Not Just FEMA and HHS) Involvement -- Re Housing For Migrant Minors At Convention Ctr

CA Dept. of Corrections Conducted Thurs a.m. Operation In Long Beach As Part of Statewide Taskforce Investigating Fraud On State's Unemployment Insurance Program

Two More Shootings Within Past Two Days in Zendejas' CD1: 900 block Olive, 1700 block Chestnut (Drive-By Shoots-At And Misses Multiple Adults And Juveniles)

On Convention Ctr Migrant Minor Council Item, Civic Savvy Mayoral Appointees + Allies Swiftly Filled Public Speaker Slots, Created Echo Chamber Of Support, Effectively Blocked Opposition Speakers

Long Beach Council Votes 9-0 To Let City Mgm't Negotiate -- Without Publicly Disclosed Terms, Responsibilities, Costs, Payments. -- Use of Convention Ctr To Temporarily House Roughly 1,000 Unaccompanied Migrant Minors

Council Votes 9-0 To Seek Details To Spare Itself Future Public Accountability On Decisions Re Queen Mary And Surrounding Developable Property, Would Turn Decisions Over To NON-Elected Harbor Comm'n

Pacific Merchant Shipping Ass'n Opposes Agendized Attempt By Long Beach Councilmembers Allen, Price and Zendejas To Transfer Decisionaking Control Of Queen Mary/Pier H To Harbor Dept
PMSA Cites Ship's Structural, Environmental And Financial Risks, Calls For "Honest, Overdue Discussion" With Structural and Environmental Survey Before Discusing Transfer

Council Refuses To Publicly Disclose City-Alleged Threats To Security Of Public Bldgs Or Public’s Right of Access to Public Services or Public Facilities In Connection With Using LB Convention Center To House Migrant Minors

Re Housing Migrant Children @ Convention Center, April 6 Council Agenda Item Fogs Who Contacted City, What They Sought, Whom They Contacted, And What Still Unnamed City Officials Offered In Pursuing Tentative Deal
Mayor And City Manager Fail To Respond To LBREPORT.com Inquiry Seeking Specifics On Their Roles