New / In Depth: 4 a.m. Bar/Alcohol Serving Bill -- With LB Included As A Result Of Action By Mayor Garcia -- Nears Final Votes Backed By LB Downtown Interests And LB Chamber; L.A. Councilman Koretz Holds News Conf. With Multiple Groups In Opposition; LB Councilmembers (Except Price) Hide; Ass'yman O'Donnell Opposes; State Sen. Lara (Ins. Comm'r Candidate) Is Among Bill's Co-Authors New: Mayor Garcia Chooses Some Familiar Names To Write Ballot Arguments Pro/Con On His Desired Charter Amendments And Petition-Initiated Hotel Workers Measure New / Detailed Coverage: Following Big Civil Jury Verdict Against Monsanto Re Roundup, New LB Parks Director Bans Its Use In LB Parks Immediately, Will Examine Policies/Develop Plan For Other Areas (Medians, Golf Courses, etc.); Issue Will Likely Come Up At Parks/Rec Budget Hearing New: Long Beach Police Chief Luna Reveals "LB Values Act" (Council-Enacted Policies Mirror SB 54/"Sanctuary State" Law) Has Caused City To "Pause" Seeking Some Fed'l Grants; Councilwoman Price (Who Voted For Policies) Says Having Cops On Street More Important Than "Sending A Message"; Mayor And Other Supporters Remain Mum New: Council Votes To Seek Mgm't Report On Ways To Better Address/Enforce Beach Violations (Incl. Alcohol/Drug Use, Incl. Homeless Encampments) Pearce & Uranga cite concerns about enforcement; Price responds she'll do everything in her power to ensure another person doesn't step on a syringe in the sand...and those who feel otherwise should discuss repealing laws they're reluctant to enforce. |
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On LBReport.com Re allegations that Mayor Garcia hid comments critical of his policies from his Mayoral and "public figure" Facebook pages: During public comment on non-agendized items at Aug. 14 Council meeting, two speakers cite complaint filed with D.A. by "No Kill Advocacy Center" alleging uncnstitutional (1st amendment) suppression of critical comments. Speaker David Dykstra offers polished, pointed criticism of Garcia, alleging the actions were [paraphrase] politically self-serving for Garcia approaching April 2018 election, and states during his testimony that Garcia fails to make eye contact with him. A second speaker (a woman) reads allegations from the complaint letter. Garcia says "thank you" to each speaker, offers no denial, defense or comments. No Councilmembers respond. Additional Instances Found Of Critical Comments Allegedly "Hidden" From Mayor's Facebook Pages, Says AND Amnesia File: April 2017: Mayor Blocked LB Resident Who Used "@LBMayorsOffice" Twitter Feed To Urge Him To Veto Council Ordinance That Would Let Him And Councilmembers Use Their Contributor-Funded "Officeholder Accounts" To Give Money To Candidates For Other Political Offices; He Unblocked Her...And Didn't Veto The Ordinance Domestic Violence Investigated In Rose Park Neighborhood Shooting That Left Woman Wounded Councilmembers Price, Supernaw and Austin Agendize Hot-Button Homeless/Transient/Vagrant Beach Issues Affecting Public Safety/Public Health Man Shot To Death, Six Blocks North of Civic Center (1st dist.) New / With VIDEO: With Sept. Purchase Decision Looming On LCD Parcel, Olson Co. VP Hears Residents cite LUE battle, impacts of new Sac'to legislation; company's next move and decision uncertain ELB Shooting, Multiple Shots Fired, Redondo/14th; Woman Is Wounded And Vehicle Damaged Coastal Comm'n OK's Up To 120 Slant Drilled Oil Wells On PCH "Pumpkin Patch" & LCWA Five Acre Parcel (NE Corner Studebaker/2nd St.), Opponents Call It Risky Oil Drilling Expansion; Next Step Is Future Commission Vote On Related Plan To Restore Natural Beauty To 150+ Acres Of Eyesore Oilfield Wetlands and Enable Public Ownership/Access; One Comm'r Voices Concern Over Proposed 40 Yr Timeline In Depth / Perspective: After Multi-Million Dollar Monsanto Jury Verdict, Will LB's Mayor Or Any Councilmember(s) Agendize Discussion Or Action re Alternatives To Spraying "Round-Up" Weedkiller In LB Parks? Subsequent development above Mayor Garcia Allegedly Hid Critical Comments On His Facebook Pages Says Non-Profit (That Urges No-Kill Animal Shelter Practices) In Complaint Letter Citing Alleged Examples, Seeks L.A. County District Attorney Investigation Into Whether Garcia Tried To Put Unconstitutional (First Amendment) Restrictions On Public Comments Critical Of His Policies See VIDEO With LASD Blow-By-Blow Description And Updated Release Of What Happened Inside LASD Station (Clark north of Del Amo) When Suspect (Man) Overpowered/Punched Civilian Employee (Woman) Taking His Fingerprints; Struggle And Quick Standoff Follow Before Deputies Shoot Suspect (Who Survives) Parks/Rec Comm'n OK's 10 Yr Contract With New El Dorado Park Kiddie-Train Operator, An LLC Promising To Create "El Dorado Frontier" With These Add'l Attractions (Free Or Fee Decided by the LLC) With Fees Payable To City Waived For First Five Years  Source: Parks & Rec Comm'n agenda item Gunfire Flies At Midevening, 2000 block E. Spring St. (5th/7th Dist. border with Signal Hill), Shots Reportedly Fired From A Vehicle, No Person Hit But Another Vehicle Damaged Urban Commons (City Hall's Queen Mary Land Development Lessee/Ship Operator) Hosted A Dinner Event Tonight (Aug. 9) For Mayor Garcia. So...Who Attended? What Was Discussed? Public Blasts As Self-Serving And Costly, Council Votes Council Votes Unanimous vote belies political fallout from a bitter VIDEO: LBPD Seeks Your Help In Locating This Suspect Vehicle (See Surveillance Video & Pix) And Its Owner In Connection With Cal Hts Fatal Stabbing (Wardlow/Orange)
Man Is Fatally Shot, Andy St. in NLB Follow-Up Mayor Garcia Revises Fiscal Impact Statement Re His Charter Amendments, It Now States... Citizens About Responsible Planning (CARP) Opposes Placement Of Mayor-Sought Charter Amendments on Special November Citywide Ballot, Because... New Grassroots Group -- "People Of Long Beach" (POLB) -- Forms In Response To Mayor Garcia's Stance On Term Limits, And Rapidly Expands Beyond Gathering Storm Over Mayor-Sought Changes To City Charter (LB's Constitution): Multiple Grassroots Advocates Plus Retired Councilmembers Gabelich And Schipske Voice Opposition; Cambodian Community Members Support Redistricting Measure, LB Firefighters Ass'n (Major Funder Of Campaigns For City Hall-Desired Tax Hike And Utility Revenue Diversion) Swiftly Voiced Support For All Five Measures Alleged Killer of LBFD Capt. Rosa Dies, Succumbed To Pre-Existing Illness At USC Med. Ctr Jail Ward Gunfire In Willmore City Neighborhood Damages Vehicle, 1000 block Del Rey Court, Less Than A Mile Due North of Civic Center Man Is Found Deceased (Apparently Natural Causes) On Couch On Sidewalk In Area Of Anaheim St./Cedar Ave.Subsequent coverage above: Mayor Garcia Signs And Submits Five False Fiscal Impact Statements Concealing Special Election Taxpayer Costs For His Charter Amendments: It's $470,00-$650,000, And...  Overnight 2.7 Mag Quake, Epicenter Roughly 1.8 Miles SSW of Signal Hill  Image source: USGS Redistricting Comm'n Advocates Tell Cambodian Community Unjust District Lines Diluted Their Voting Voice; Say Proposed Charter Amendment Could Correct Historic Injustice; New Grassroots Group "People Of Long Beach" (POLB) Cautions Charter Amendment's Text Quietly Allows Mayor/Council Tilt  Mayor Garcia Moves To Revise Revision To City Charter He Sought And Council Advanced (9-0) Re City Auditor's Right To Access City Docs; See His New Proposed Text; Auditor Doud Signals Her Support For Mayor's Revised Revision Perspective / Amnesia File: The Lobbyist: Retired LBPD Lt. Steve James -- Former President of LB Police Officers Ass'n (Union) -- Joins Major Lobbying Firm; Read Firm's Press Release...And Our "Amnesia File" Subsequent development above Mayor Garcia Concealed, Then Sought And Got Council Approval For Now-Visible City Charter Change That Would Reduce City Auditor's Current Right To Access City Documents With VIDEO: City Mgr. Proposed FY19 Budget Would Allocate Two Add'l Quality of Life/Homeless Tasked Police Officers Plus Two More + Possible Detective "Pending" Metro Approval Along Metro Blue Line; Mayor Recommends Also Restoring Six Bike Patrol Officers And Restoring Engine 17, Asks City Mgr "To Identify New Revenue"; See Add'l Details  |
Council & I Didn't Raise Taxes, You Did Based on statement by Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia at Long Beach City Council meeting, July 24, 2018  Editorial: Yes: On Price-Supernaw-Austin-Pearce Agenda Item Seeking Feasibility Of Administrative Citations To Deter Fireworks Scofflaws Editorial: Are LB Taxpayers Better Off Now Than Four Years Ago? Editorial: We Say These Decisions By Two LB Mayors, And Past And Present Councilmembers Endorsed By The LB Police Officers Ass'n PAC, Made The Tragic, Fatal "Amnesia File" / Opinion: How LB Residents Lost Their Right To Agendize Items For Council Discussion/Action...And Why Restoring That Right Should Be Priority Reform Now Ediorial: Mayor Orchestrated Commission Photo Op Offers More Important Agenda Opportunity Perspective: Hypodermic Syringe On LB Beach Stabs A Jr. Lifeguard...And It Shouldn't Take A Public Records Act Request To Find Out What Really Happened Editorial: The Community Hospital Deal...For Grown-Ups Statement by the Publisher / Opinion: LBREPORT.com...Now More Than Ever Op-Ed: Things They Need to Tell Us Before They Lease Community Hospital By Gerrie Schipske * * Ms. Schipske, an attorney, served two terms as LB's 5th dist. Councilwoman (2006-2014) and is the author of Historical Hospitals of Long Beach Editorial: Mayor Garcia's Anti-Reform Charter Amendments Perspective: Councilwoman Price Says She Opposes Sac'to Bill That Could Let LB Council Allow 4 a.m. Bar Closings In Parts of LB...But Here's What She Didn't Say And Hasn't Done Editorial: Apply This CA Jury Instruction To Mayor/Councilmembers Who Claim Blank Check Measure M Isn't A Tax Editorial: "Alternative Facts" In Long Beach Perspective: Did Mayor And Your Councilmember Tell You Using Cops As Props  Perspective: Long Beach, According to the New York Times Perspective / Opinion: Some Major Matters Missing In Mayor's "Homeless Initiative" Perspective: Will Mayor Garcia Commit To Serving Full Four Year Term LB Voters Just Gave Him Without Jumping Ship For State Senate Seat In November Or Congress In Two Years? We Asked, And... Thoughts on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., A Half Century Gone by Joe Segura (retired Long Beach journalist) and by Bill Pearl (LBREPORT.com publisher) Perspective / Opinion: LBCC Candidate Ntuk's Mindless Mailer Invites 2016 Party-Over-Principle Politics For Editorial: LBREPORT.com Urges This Perspective / Opinion: How Some LB Dems Shoved Independent-Minded Dem Schipske Out of State Senate Race Editorial: I-710 Travesty Perspective / Opinion: Guess Who's Trying To Derail Gerrie Schipske's State Senate Bid Perspective: Mayor Garcia Didn't Preside At Council Meeting (One Of His Charter Duties) To Attend L.A. County Democratic Party Event; His Former Online Calendar Has Apparently Vanished And We'd Like To Know If He Took Metro To The Event Perspective Via CityWatchLA.com: Former L.A. City Planner Platkin Collapses Rationales For "Transit Rich" Density-Dictating It's titled: "The More You Stir it, the More It Stinks: New Planning Legislation from Sacramento" Long Beach City Hall Using "Mushroom Treatment" (Again) To Delay Our Reporting This Taxpayer-Impacting Information To You Editorial: End LB's Point-Counterpoint / Opinion: We Question These Statements Mayor Garcia Submitted For Inclusion In Official Election Pamphlet, And He Says... |
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Action comes about a year after LBREPORT.com first suggested this In Depth/Perspective: Despite "Warzone" Level Fireworks Last Year, To Date City of Long Beach Hasn't Aggressively/Systematically Applied This Measure That Other Cities Use Against Fireworks Scofflaws Amnesia File: LBREPORT.com reported on it nearly a year ago |
Editorial: Mayor Garcia's Anti-Reform Charter Amendments Mayor Garcia's 12-Year "Term Limit" Proposal Tilted Toward Incumbents (That He Labels "Strengthening" Term Limits) Similar To Proposal Rejected By Over 2/3 Of LB Voters; See 2007 Ballot Arguments Pro/Con Mayor Garcia Proposes Mayor-Chosen, Council-Approved Advisory-Only "Redistricting Comm'n," Could Allow Council To Continue District Gerrymandering |
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Two Bomb Squad Call-Outs Within Hours To Nearby ELB/Lakewood Locations Photo by Charlie McGrail Following Follow-Up: Woman To Be Booked On Multiple Charges After ELB High Speed Pursuit Is 24 Yr Old Culver City Resident...And Has Had Previous Encounters With Area Police Agencies/Judicial System Follow-Up: Driver Dies After Horrific Studebaker Rd. Crash Includes VIDEO Coverage: A Week After Fred Taft's Murder In ELB's Pan Am Park: ELB High Speed Pursuit After PD Responds To Stolen Vehicle Call, Suspect Allegedly Puts It Into Reverse Toward Approaching Officer, Hitting His Police Car; Chase Ends On Wardlow West of Woodruff With Roll-Over Crash @ Marshall Middle School  New / Perspective: A LB Tax Hike For More LB "Affordable" (Low Income/Subsidized) Housing & Homeless Programs? Mayor & Several Councilmembers Signal Their Support, Just Not Immediately FPPC Enforcement Division Will Investigate Allegations By Enforcement Division says it hasn't made any determination about the validity of the allegations or about the culpability, if any, of any of the person(s) identified in the taxpayers' complaint Follow-Up: Pan Am, Park Fatal Shooting: LBPD Timeline Of First Calls Received, First Officers Dispatched, First Suspect Description(s) Radio'ed To Field Units And First Units Arrival Follow-Up: Did LBPD Receive Any Calls For Service Or Complaints From Public Earlier In The Day Of Pan Am Park Murder Re A Group Gathering/Event In The Park? LBPD Says No Reports Earlier That Day Extended VIDEO Coverage Coming Community Meeting Scheduled Re Fatal Shooting In Pan American Park: Sat. July 28, 9 a.m., Lakewood Village Community Church; Separate Memorial Service For Murder Victim Fred Taft Planned For 10:30 a.m. Same Morning In Pan Am Park |
L.A. Superior Court Judge Rules City Council Majority Met Legal Standards In Approving $100+ Million "Belmont Beach & Aquatics Center"; City Staff Will Now Advance Project To Coastal Comm'n. As seen LIVE, Council voted 8-0 to advance this item. Fireworks Enforcement By Administrative Citation? Councilwoman Price, Joined By Councilmembers Supernaw, Austin & Pearce (Finally) Agendize Issue For Council Discussion Action comes about a year after LBREPORT.com first suggested this As seen LIVE, Council voted 9-0 to advance this item without scheduling it for Nov. 2018 ballot. Subsequent coverage above: Richardson-Gonzalez-Andrews-Austin Want City Mgm't Options For "Local Revenue Measure" -- And Mention Possible Debt Bond -- To Address "Affordable Housing" / "Homelessness" Agenda item attaches letter signed by housing developers, establishment figures, advocacy groups With VIDEO: Olson Co., Developer Of "For-Sale, In-Town Housing," Holds Community Meeting, Explains Its Purchase/Sale Agreement (In Escrow/Due Diligence Phase) For LBCC Property @ 3320-3340 Los Coyotes Diagonal & 3325 Palo Verde Perspective: "Warzone" CA-Contraband Fireworks (Again) Impact Wrigley, Parts of NLB And Central LB, Sporadic In Parts Of ELB...After Long Beach Mayor/Council Fail To Pursue "Administrative Enforcement" -- Procedure Not Requiring Police But Carrying Hefty Fines -- That Other Cities Use To Deter Fireworks Scofflaws Amnesia File: LBREPORT.com reported on it nearly a year ago Friday's (July 6) 109 Degrees At LB Airport Smashed Previous LB Records For This Day AND This Month; Compare Other Cities' High Temps AND Temp Hits 109 Degrees At LGB Friday And Remains b/w 108-109 For Over Three Hours; UPDATE: Forecast Says Saturday Highs From 90 (90802) to 99 (90808), Sunday 82 (90802) to 94 (90808) Man Hit By Gunfire While Riding Along L.A. River Bikepath (Near Del Amo Blvd.) LBPD Civilian Employee Is Arrested On Suspicion Of Recording People Without Their Knowledge In A Restroom Upstart Group Signs "Declaration of Independence" In Philadelphia, Asserts Right To Self-Rule No Longer Accountable To Royal Authority, Cites "History of Repeated Injuries and Usurpations" See full text 
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Subsequent development above In Depth/Perspective: Despite "Warzone" Level Fireworks Last Year, To Date City of Long Beach Hasn't Aggressively/Systematically Applied This Measure That Other Cities Use Against Fireworks Scofflaws
LBPD Confirms Pan Am Park Murder Suspect Is White Man In His '50s But Says Detectives Haven't Found Evidence of Hate Crime Although Evidence Is Still Being Collected And Analyzed Family, Friends Gather At Pan Am Park Murder Scene, Fondly Recall Fred Taft  Bixby Park Area Attack: Man Allegedly Threatening Bystanders, Vandalizing Cars Allegedly Wounds Man With Metal Object; Victim Is Taken To Hospital; Suspect Is Arrested Flashback: On Memorial Day 2010,Two People Were Shot/Wounded At An Annual Event In Pan Am Park Coroner Identifies Man Murdered At Pan Am Park As A LB Resident AND Man Is Shot To Death At Afternoon Group Event At Pan Am Park (Old Lakewood Village, 5th dist.) Horrific Crash, Studebaker Rd. South of Atherton, Shears Vehicle Into Pieces  Photo by Charlie McGrail. Man Is Shot In Noon-Hour Friday, 300 block W. PCH/Area Cedar Mayor-Sought Changes In City Charter Panned, Praised: L.A. County Bd. of Supervisors Puts Parcel Property Tax On Nov. 2018 Ballot, Residential & Comm'l Property Owners Would Pay To Clean Up/Capture Storm Water Runoff; Online Tool Shows How Much You'd Pay If 2/3 Of Voters Approve It Council Chooses Dee Andrews As Its Vice Mayor For Next Two Years; 11-Year Council Vet, Now In Final Two Years Of His Term-Limited Third Term, Had Been Passed Over In Previous Years State Senator de Leon, Officially Endorsed Candidate of CA Democratic Party In Seeking To Replace Incumbent U.S. Senator Feinstein, Calls For Impeachment of President Donald Trump Mayor Garcia Schedules 3:30 p.m. With On-Demand Audio: After Bruising LUE Battle, 5th Dist. Residents Wary, Seek Details Re Density, Height, Traffic, Parking As Housing Developer Olson Co. Mulls Whether To Complete Purchase Of LBCC-Owned Los Coyotes Diagonal Parcel Housing Would Require Council Approval To Change Parcel's Land Use/Zoning From Comm'l To Residential  Taxpayers Schipske-Stout-Lejins-Weinstein File Sworn Complaint w/ Fair Political Practices Comm'n Alleging City of Long Beach Violated Political Reform Act With Materials Described As "Informational" That They Say Amounted To Campaigning For Measure M |
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