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 Jan 18, City released data (information as of Jan 17): Seven day positivity rate (percent of tests performed showing COVID-19 positive) down to 13.5% from 14.2%, 14.7%, 15.1%, 15.5%, 15.7%, 15.9%, 16.3%, 16.9%, 17.2%, 17.3%, 17.5%, 17.6%, 17.5%, 16.7%, 16.0%, 15.0%, 14.8%, 14.7%, 14.6%, 14.9%, 14.7%, 14.4%, 14.0%, 13.6%, 13.2%, 12.9%, 12.7%, 12.4%, 12.1%, 11.5%, 10,7%, 10.2%, 9.9%, 9.3%, 7.25%, 6.8%, and 6.4% smoothed over 7 days. Testing positivity in lowest-resourced areas (health equity metric) = 22.4%. Daily new 7 day case rate down to 113.6 per 100k from 131.7, 141.0, 149.1, 155.7, 158.6, 141.6, 134.4, 139.6, 141.5, 135.6, 133.0, 129.4, 122.8, 114.7, 117.5, 130.7, 134.3, 131.1, 128.3, 130.9, 129.8, 124.2, 118.7, 117.1, 110.7, 106.4, 100.1, 95.4, 88.7, 81.1, 74.1, 68.3, 50.3, 46.5, 39.8, and 36.7 in preceding days. Long Beach deaths rise now 577 from 535, 520, 506, 499, 484, 460, 447, 420, 402, 395, 391, 380, 358, 347, 341, 333, 319, 315, 311. Jan. 21: A public-facing LBFD employee assigned to Station 1 has tested positive for COVID-19, last at work Jan. 13. A public facing LBFD employee aA public-facing employee assigned to Station 13 has tested positive for COVID-19, laat at work Jan. 13. Jan 20: A public facing LBPD North Division employee has tested positive for COVID-19, last at work Jan. 14. Jan. 19: A public-facing East Division LBPD employee has tested positive for COVID-19, last at work Jan. 16. Dec. 6: City updated Health Order with applicable terms summarized in this release. |  |
Measures A & B: LBREPORT.com Seeks District Attorney Review Of Long Beach Mayor/City Council Feb. 18 Actions re Measure B
Measures A & B: Garcia-Run Campaign Has Spent Over $380,000 Since 8th Dist: Dollar Donnybrook: Organized Labor Spends Large Sum For Thrash-Ntuk; Business Interests Spend Big to Re-Elect Austin; Reform Ticket Challenger Ovalle Uses Contribs Mainly From Grassroots Residents 2nd Dist Deluge: Over $120,000 Spent Since Jan. 1 To Put Cindy Allen On City Council ($70k+ From These Contribs + $50k+ From Two Indie Committees); Reform Ticket Candidate Robert Fox (Using Mainly His Own Money) Has Spent $60k+; Pearce Endorsee Lara About $10k, Barrera About $5.5k 8th Dist + 6th Dist. These Five Entities + One Individual Just Added $42,500 To Indie Campaign Seeking To Re-Elect Council Incumbents Andrews And Austin 8th Dist: In 8th Dist., UniteHere! Union Adds $50,000 (Producing $125,000) For Organized-Labor Indie Campaign Seeking To Elect Thrash-Ntuk Follow the Money: Carpenters Union PAC Adds $10k To Garcia-Run Pro-Measure A Sales Tax Campaign; It's Collected Over Half A Million To Date From These Entities To Spend Against Grassroots Taxpayers Relying On Bare-Bones Individual Efforts 2nd Dist: These Persons / Entities Gave These Sums To Elect Cindy Allen To LB City Council (2nd Dist.) 6th Dist: Three Unions Just Gave Nearly A Quarter Million Dollars To L.A. County Labor Fed'n Which Is Allocating Estimated $40,000 In Indie Effort To Elect Suely Saro In 6th District (South Wrigley/Central LB/Cambodia Town) Mayor Garcia: See Who Gave Maximum Sums To Mayor Garcia's 2026 Lt. Governor Committee (That He's Used Thus Far As A Slush Fund To Support Other Campaigns) Subsequent coverage above: These Five Entities Just Gave $170,000 More -- Producing Total Now Nearly Half A Million -- For Garcia-Run Campaign To Continue Imposing Subsequent cverage above: 8th Dist: $75,000 Labor-Backed Indie Campaign Surfaces In 8th District Backing Thrash-Ntuk Subsequent coverage above 6th + 8th Dists: These Entities Funded Indie Campaign Supporting Subsequent coverage above Measure A Sales Tax: LB Firefighters Union Adds $125,000 to $200,000 From Police Officers Union To Fund Garcia-Run Campaign To Permanently Impose "Measure A" (Blank Check) Sales Tax |
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| If Your Neighborhood Gets Pounded (Again) By Illegal Fireworks/Explosives, Here's The LB City Council's 2020 Record On The Issue
Community Hospital Operator, Given License For Up To 158 Beds, Will Partially Reopen Jan. 4 With 11 ICU Peds + Space For 40 Other Patients; No COVID-19 Patients, Only Prearranged Transfers Of Others From Other Facilities, No Walk-Ins, No Emergency Room For Now No mention in City release of repaying LB taxpayers for $250,000 advanced by April 2020 Council vote for repairs MWN's lease required LLC to pay for Another Wrigley Shooting In Veterans Park (Second Within 10 Days), This Time It's Drive-By With No Persons Hit Long Beach Health Dept Pleads With Public: Stay Home Over New Year's Weekend Perspective: Politics for Grown Ups/Elections Matter: In ELB's Fifth District, Former Councilwoman Schipske And Businessman John Osborn Signal They May Run; Mungo Mum QM Special Meeting Closed Session: (1) Councilmembers Allen, Supernaw, Mungo Not Present On Opening Roll Call, Not Immediately Clear If They Entered Meeting At Some Point Later On Queen Mary Lease Amendment Terms; (2) City Att'y Parkin Says No Publicly Reportable Action At This Time From Closed Session Subsequent development above Something's Up re Queen Mary: Council Skeds ANOTHER Closed Session Monday Dec. 28 Re Lease Amendment Terms For Queen Mary Lessee Urban Commons Man Is Shot/Wounded, Multiple Parked Vehicles Hit, At Least Two Houses Struck By Gunfire, NW NLB (LB Blvd/Scott St.) Another CD 4 (Councilman Supernaw) Shooting: Man Is Shot/Wounded In 1100 block Obispo (One Week After 14 Yr Old Child Found Fatally Shot 1400 block St. Louis) CA Gov Newsom Chooses CA Sec'y of State Alex Padilla To Fill Kamala Harris Senate Vacancy Two Saturday (Dec. 19) Shootings (1) Pike Paseo (Midafternoon) (2) Wrigley UPDATED LOCATION Veterans Park Rec Center (Mid-Evening) When 14 Yr Old Cambodian Child Is Found Shot To Death In Killing LBPD Investigates As Gang Related, Newly Elected Councilwoman Suely Saro -- Who Opposes Restoring LBPD's Field Anti-Gang Unit -- Says "Don’t Be So Quick To Judge When 'Gang-Related' Is Mentioned" And Offers These Diversions Cambodian Child, Age 14, Was Fatal Shooting Victim Found Deceased 1400 block St. Louis (CD 4/Supernaw) Amnesia File: Includes transcript of Supernaw telling taxpayers (April 2019) to stop raising issue of Council's failure to restore LBPD field anti-gang unit Two More LBUSD K-5 Locations (Holmes & Signal Hill) Report Possible COVID-19 Exposures Two More LBUSD K-5 Locations (Buffum and Plymouth) Report Possible COVID-19 Exposures...And Buffum Closes its Head Start Program Until Reopening Jan. 4 New LA County DA George Gascon For Grown-Ups; He Didn't Hide His Views; He Was Elected And Here's Who Endorsed Him City Mgm't Says Council Should Require Proponents Of Aerial Gondola Connecting DTLB With "Queen Mary Island" To Show Secured Funding For At Least 80% Of $500,000 Feasibility Study Cost Advises using private funding but invites seeking Port or other grants, says Council may add City funding later AUDIO: Councilman Uranga Offers These Gracious Words In Adjourning Council Meeting In Honor Of Tom Stout Fatal Shooting In Supernaw's 4th Dist: 1400 block St. Louis Long Beach COVID-19 Numbers Continue To Surge Long Beach COVID 7-Day Smoothed Positivity Rate Rises Sharply Despite City Concealing Daily Rises, Offers Public Only 7-Day Smoothed Figure Diluted By Data Up To A Week Old Council's Vice Mayor, Their Choice, Their Votes, But LB Voters Will Decide If It Will Help Or Hurt Possible Mayoral Run By Rex Richardson Councilman Richardson Agendizes Dec. 15 Council Item To Begin Steps To Rename NLB's South Street Parkway As "Pressburg Parkway," Would Recognize Years of Civic Activism by Dan Pressburg Inequity By The Numbers: In December Thus Far, Long Beach's CD 1 Has Had More Shootings And Homicides Per Capita Than Chicago. In Sept., Council voted to defund nearly 50 more officers in addition to 180+ not previously restored, including former field anti-gang unit Pacific6/MWN Principal John Molina Said Recent Movie Shoots Using Community Hospital During COVID-19 Crisis Surge Were "Planned Months Ago"...But City Mgm't Says Most Recent Film Shoot (Dec. 21-23) Permit Was Requested Dec. 14 And City's Special Events/Filming Office Approved It Dec. 21 Garcia Tweets Concept of Nat'l COVID Memorial As If It's His Idea, But It's Not; Fed'l Bill Proposed It In July, NPR Article Detailed Concept In Early December Despite Life Endangering COVID-19 Lack of Hospital Capacity, And $250,000 In Repairs LB Taxpayers Paid For With No Req't To Do So, Long Beach Community Hospital Remains Closed And Is Being Used As A Movie Filming Venue City management blocks LBREPORT.com from questioning Mayor at "news conference," imposes these press restrictions  |
Alarmed By COVID-19 Surge, City of Long Beach Issues Official Statement: Says Gather Only With Familymembers For Christmas, Warns Of "Even Stronger Surge" Unless Residents Make Sacrifices
"If we don’t want to see another, even stronger surge, we need to make sacrifices this holiday season. Stay home as much as you possibly can; wear a face covering over your nose and mouth whenever you are out; and whatever you do, don’t gather with others outside your household, either inside or outside. Our lives depend on it." LBUSD Sup't Cites COVID-Surge To Continue Distance Learning/Keep Campuses Closed Thru At Least March 1 And Possibly April 12 Three More LBUSD Campuses Send K-5 Parents Notices Their Someone On Campus [Cites Dates] Had COVID-19 And Their Child May Have Been Exposed Subsequent development above Council To Hold Closed Session Re Lease Amendment Terms For Queen Mary Lessee Urban Commons Now It's LB's Latest Murder: Man Shot In CD1's Drake Park (900 block Loma Vista) Dies He Was With A Woman Getting Items Out of Their Vehicle When Group Allegedly Confronted And Shot At Them; LBPD Provides These Details Another CD6 Shooting: PCH/Daisy Another CD1 Shooting -- Anaheim/Chestnut (Northern Edge of Willmore City Just Blocks From Drake Park Where Man Was Shot Less Than 24 Hrs Earlier) With COVID-19 Surging, Reopen Schools Or Continue Distance Learning? Since Sept. 1, 118 Cases (77 LBUSD Staff + 32 Students + 9 Visitors/Vendors) Reported With COVID-19 Parents/Guardians With K-5 CDC/Preschool Students At Hudson, Barton, Lincoln And Starr-King Latest To Receive Notices That Their Child May Have Been Exposed Subsequent development above Another Shooting In CD1's Drake Park: Man Is Shot In Head Fri Nite Dec. 11 LA County Says No Docs Found In Response to Part Of LBREPORT.com Records Request For Garcia Text To Supervisor Solis Re Restaurant Closure LB COVID-19 Vax Plan: None For Most Till Mid Summer 2021; Prioritizes These Groups First City of Long Beach Conceals/Downplays Its Daily COVID-19 "Positivity Rate" (Percentage Of Positive Test Results), Blocks Public/Press Access To Daily Data; Offers Figure Diluted By Data Up To A Week Old (Dec. 10): TWO Shootings Within An Hour In CD 4's "Zaferia" Neighborhood (Supernaw); PCH/Obispo + 1300 block Ohio VIDEO: Did You See It?: LB Got GREAT View As Int'l; Space Station Orbited Nearly Directly Above Us. (Hidden Early In Pass By High Clouds, We Nearly Missed It.) Follow-Up To Sic Transit: Councilman Uranga To Make Motion To Adjourn Dec. 15 Council Meeting In Memory of LB Taxpayer Advocate (And CD 7 Resident) Tom Stout AUDIO: Council Votes Vote comes at 1:08 a.m. after Mayor Garcia moves other items ahead but doesn't advance this one Subsequent development above Mayor/Council Snub Passing Of LB Taxpayer Advocate Tom Stout, Not One Moves To Adjourn Council Meeting In His Memory Subsequent coverage above: Fact Check / Perspective: El Dorado Park Artificial Turf Field: Recent Salient Statements By City Mgm't vs. Councilwoman Mungo Compared Subsequent coverage above:  Sic Transit Tom Stout, Co-Founder LB Taxpayers Ass'n, Spoke Up For Residents Under Three Mayors And Councils"Selfie" image from Mr. Stout's Facebook page Long Beach Surges Thru Its Previous Record 7-Day Level Of Individuals Testing Positive For COVID-19 Perspective: Regardless Of Whom You Blame, This Chart Shows It's More Risky Now To Go Anywhere In Long Beach Than Just Weeks Ago. And City Mgm't Isn't Disclosing The Real Daily Number Now It's A Homicide: Another CD 1 Shooting: Female Adult Killed And Female Juvenile Shot/Wounded Anaheim/Magnolia LBPD says murder victim, 36 year old LB woman, "has no gang affiliation and is believed to be an unintended target of the suspect." Despite Limited K-5 LBUSD Campus Activities, 54 Staff + 22 Students + 7 Visitors/Vendors Confirmed Infected With COVID-19 Since Sept 1 Parents At Mann And Prisk Latest To Get Notices of Their Child's Possible Exposure Another CD1 Willmore Area Shooting: 200 block W. 6th St; Evidence Found (Incl. Bullet Casings) But No Wounded Persons Found Another CD1 Shooting: Man Wounded In Willmore City/Drake Park Area Shooting Governor Newsom Issues Regionalized Stay At Home Order, See Details Of What It Does/Doesn't Allow Subsequent development above As COVID Cases Surge, Several Hundred Residents March Thru Naples/Belmont Shore, Urge City Hall to Re-Open Long Beach (Reduce Restrictions On Restaurants/Re-Open Schools)
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Monied Business/Restaurant Interests And Allies Launch "Accountability PAC," Schedule Dec. 2 "Accountability March" Urging "Opening Up Long Beach"
Wrigley Shooters Attack Man In His Vehicle, Who Pursues Them And Is Shot To Death In Collision At Magnolia/Wardlow Man Shot-At While Seated In His Parked Vehicle, 1800 block E. 5th St. Gunfire Strikes Several Parked Vehicles, 2300 block Myrtle Ave. Dec. 8 Council "Consent Calendar" (No-Discussion/Separate Recorded Vote Unless A Councilmember Requests It) Would Spend $250,000 To Enable "Right To Counsel" For Tenants Challenging Certain Property Owner Actions Mayor Garcia Included It In His FY21 Budget Recommendations; Council Rubberstamped It Advancing It To Possible Spending Vote Now Dec. 8: City Staff Will Seek Council Approval To Spend $3.11 Million Total Cost For El Dorado Park Artificial Turf Soccer Field, Council Approval Would Launch Construction/Installation Another South Wrigley Shooting (CD6): In Broad Daylight Shots Leave Bullet Holes And Strike Marks On Vehicles Parked In 2200 block Earl (b/w Pacific-LB Blvd., b/w PCH-Willow) No Persons Hit With NO City Council Discussion (Again), City Mgm't Says It Will Make Unspecified Changes To LB's COVID Health Order. Will LB Follow Or Make Change To LA County's Coming Nov. 30 Health Order? Peaceful Creative COVID Protest Parks U-Haul Trucks Outside Three ELB Council Incumbents' Homes To Send Message: Take Action To Support LB Businesses...Or Leave Two Shootings In Less Than Three Hours In Central LB: (1) Man Is Hit/Wounded, LB Blvd/19th St. (CD6) (2) Car Carrying Four People (Incl. Two Children) Hit By Gunfire 16th/Linden (CD1) Plus Shooting At Unknown Location Wrigley Gunfire Adds To Two Confirmed Central LB Shootings + Shooting At Uncertain Location NLB Gunfight -- Shots Exchanged, Buildings Struck, Gang Involvement Suspected In Neighborhood Near CD8's "Davenport Park" LA County Health Officer Will Implement These Toughened Targeted COVID Restrctions On Nov. 30; Will LB Health Officer Do Likewise, Or Do Something Else? Another Carmelitos Shooting (8th Council district) Mayor/Council Cancel Their Meetings But Continue Collecting Full Pay; Next Currently Scheduled Meeting Is Dec. 8, Will Include No-Action "Study Session" Sought By Price On Restaurant Dining Closure Five Councilmembers could schedule special meeting on 24 hours notice Price Seeks Dec. 8 "Study Session" (No Council Action Item) On City Health Officer's Three Week Ban On Outdoor Restaurant Dining; Richardson Says He Doesn't "Favor" City Mgm't Order But Stops Short Of Flatly Opposing It, Signals Other Actions In Response Long Beach & LA County Health Depts Will Apply Add'l COVID 19 Restrictions Including Three Week Ban On Outdoor Restaurant Dining Effective 10 p.m. Tonite Subsequent development above Pasadena, With Independent Health Dept., Pursuing Independent Course On Allowing Outdoor Dining; LA County Board of Supes To Discuss County Direction Subsequent development above VIDEO: Mayor Garcia Cites Alarming/Unprecedented COVID-19 Increases, Says Restaurant Outdoor Dining Ban Will Hurt Some Of His Friends And Cause Workers Serious Personal and Economic Damage But Doesn't Signal Support To Reconsider Forthcoming Action, Says Important Aspect Of His Job Is To Ensure Available Hospital Beds/Ventilators And Discourage Gatherings That Can Spread Virus Long Beach Restaurant Ass'n Says No Scientific Proof Outdoor Socially Distanced Dining Contributes To Increased COVID-19 Spread, Urges Reconsideration Of City Ordered Shut Down Subsequent development above Long Beach Follows L.A. County, Will Impose At Least Three Week Ban On In-Person Restaurant Dining (Indoor Or Outdoor) As Well As In Breweries, Wineries And Bars Criticizing City-Ordered In-Restaurant Dining Shut Down, Former Councilman DeLong Accuses City of Misleading Its Residents Family Dog's Barking Alerts Sleeping Residents To Alleged Knife-Wielding Intruder In Their ELB Home; LBPD Locates/Arrests/Books Suspect (L.A. Man) On Felony Charges LBFD Mgm't Lets Asymptomatic Firefighters Avoid 14-Day Quarantine Despite Knowing They're Possibly COVID-19 Infected, Cites CDC Standard For Essential Critical Workers Here's Newly Imposed Long Beach "Safer At Home" 10 p.m.-5 a.m. COVID-19 Curfew Order Fight Leads To Fatal Shooting At NLB "Afterhours" Event That Drew Roughly 50-75 Persons To Closed Business (1300 block Artesia); LBPD Seeks Public's Help With Video And Other Info Biden Transportation Dept. "Transition Team" Includes LA Metro Chief (Favors "Congestion Pricing" Charging Drivers To Use Certain Fwys In Prime Time) And Former LB Airport Director Rodriguez (Quietly Sought To Enable Customs Facility Turning LGB Into Int'l Airport) Sac'to Issues "Limited Stay At Home Order" Prohibiting COVID Outbreak @ LBPD: At Least A Dozen Officers From Three Divisions Infected; Contact Tracing Underway To Find Other Staff Who May Have Come In Close Contact With Them 16 Yr Old Girl Allegedly Shoots Man, Steals His Car; LBPD Cops Pursue And Arrest Her In DTLB Under newly elected DA, she may not be tried as adult. Long Beach To Apply Tightened COVID-19 Restrictions (Paralleling LA County) Impacting Certain Businesses, Group Gatherings And Mandates Face Masks On Everyone Leaving Their Homes (With Limited Exceptions) LA County Health Chief Signals Possible Return To Full Lockdown If Cases Continue To Rise; LB Shows Disturbing Increase In Cases And Positivity Rate |
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