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| Subsequent development above LB Airport Mgm't Says JetBlue Not On Pace To Meet Council-Approved "Use 'Em Or Lose 'Em" Flight Slot Rules (To Deter "Slot Squatting"), Asked Carrier For Its Plans To Do So; JetBlue Issued This Corporate Statement Without Specific Plans...And LB Airport Hasn't Told Us What JetBlue Has Or Hasn't Told Them
Swift & Savvy LBPD Work Locates Stolen Doggie "Chewie," Reunites Him With His Owner, Arrests Two South Gate Women  LBPD provided photo Sunday Night Gunfire Rousts Wrigley Residents, Alley In 2200 block Locust (6th dist.); Garage Hit, No Person Wounded George's 50's Diner Held A Car Show And These Cars And Their Owners Showed Up Photo Gallery by Tom Stout Special to LBREPORT.com  Sic Transit: Martha Thuente: North Long Beach Civic Presence, Community Volunteer, Neighborhood Improvement Advocate  Photo source: LB Neighborhood Resource Center Newsletter, Fall 2006 Man Is Stabbed After Thurs. Night Fight, 5200 Block E. 2nd St./Belmont Shore Follow-Up: Long Beach Accountability Action Group Warned LB Officials -- Including Councilwoman Mungo And City Mgm't. -- Of Chronic And Worsening Transient Presence And Previous Fires In Or Near Area Of In Depth / Perspective: SB 50, Sweeping Measure To Override Single Family Home Zoning Re Housing Density, Locations, Parking, Bldg Hts. Near Some Transit AND In Sac'to-Decided "Jobs Rich" Areas, Advances Alongside Similar But Less Sweeping SB 4; LB Mayor/Council Mum (Incl. State Senate Candidate Gonzalez) Recently elected SE LB area State Senator Tom Umberg (Dem) voted "yes" to advance both measures In Depth: Mayor Garcia Sent This Letter Telling State Lawmakers City Supports Sac'to-Written Constitutional Amendment -- That Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Ass'n Opposes As Attack on Prop 13 -- To Reduce 2/3 Voter-Approval Req't To 55% For Local Debt-Bonds And Special Taxes For "Affordable" Housing, Homeless Supportive Housing And Very Broadly-Defined "Public Infrastructure" Spending Wednesday, 5:00 p.m. hour: Quotes Of Note From Councilwoman (State Senate Candidate) Gonzalez And Mayor Garcia At Council Meeting Directing City Att'y To Draft LB "Tenant Relocation Ordinance" Council Landlord would pay exiting tenant two months rent plus $2,000 payable to senior or disabled tenants (possibly from city funds, but if not, then landlord funds.) Subsequent development above Price, Richardson Signal Emerging Council Split On City Staff Proposed "Tenant Relocation Ordinance" Coming To Council April 2 Subsequent development aboveGathering Long Beach Political Storm Over City Staff Proposed "Tenant Relocation Assistance Ordinance" (April 2 Council Agenda Item)
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Analysis / Perspective: By The Numbers: Long Beach Decided State Senate District Initial Election...So What Now?
City Staff Memo To Council/Mayor Recommends AGAINST Using Administrative Enforcement To Deter/Punish Fireworks Scofflaws Escrow/Due Diligence Period Extended For Housing Development Firm's Possible Purchase Of 3320-3340 Los Coyotes Diagonal/3325 Palo Verde First (Again) on LBREPORT.com / With AUDIO: Vice Mayor Dee Andrews -- 6th Dist. Council Incumbent First Elected In 2007 -- Will Seek Man Is Shot/Wounded, Area 7th St./Lime Ave., Not Believed Gang Related LB Transit Bus Clips Multiple Parked Cars, Area Pacific Ave./Anaheim St.; PD Takes Driver To Facility To Determine If He Was Impaired As Suspected, Oregon Ave. Couple Died In Murder/Suicide VIDEO: Ann Cantrell Is Honored By Assemblyman Patrick O'Donnell Among 2019 Women of Distinction  Photo Gallery: Famed Clydesdales Bring Bud Brewskies To Belmont Shore, Up-Close Views As Exquisite Equines Prepped In Shoreline Lot For Second Street Appearance Photo Gallery by Special to LBREPORT.com  UPDATE: Includes 2nd St. VIDEO clips by Ben Goldberg and Justin Rudd Follow the Money: One Day After Initial State Senate Election: Oil/Gas Industry Funded PAC That Spent $1.1 Mil To Support Gonzalez Swiftly Spent Thousands More For Consulting, Expenses & Digital Media; On Election Day And Day Before, Alan Lowenthal's Congressional Committee, L.A. County Firefighters And Others Gave Gonzalez Campaign Thousands Man In Wheelchair Is Struck/Killed By Vehicle At Bellflower Blvd/Harvey Way; UPDATE: Suspect Driver Is Arrested/Booked On Suspicion Of DUI And Hit-Run Man Is Shot/Wounded, 3000 block E. Artesia (9th dist.) Debate: State Senate Runoff Candidate Guerrero Accepts LBREPORT.com's Offer To Host/Webcast Debate; We Await Candidate Gonzalez's Response AUDIO / Hear It: State Senator Wieckowski -- Who's Authored AUDIO Flashback: Hear State Senate Runoff Candidate Jack Guerrero At Feb. 27 Candidate Forum We Await Candidate Lena Gonzalez's Answers To These And Other Questions Subsequent development above LBREPORT.com Offers To Host And Webcast Debate Between State Senate Runoff Candidates Gonzalez and Guerrero; We're Awaiting Their Response(s) State Senate Election Stunner: With Nearly No Campaign Contribs Conservative Cudahy Councilman Jack Guerrero (Harvard/Stanford Degreed Republican Urging Change In Sac'to Policies & Fiscal Discipline) Forces LB Councilwoman/Democrat Lena Gonzalez (Over $1.1 Mil In Supportive Spending With.Stances Echoing Sac'to Policies) Into June 4 Runoff Developing: City Council Poised To Tackle Thorny Landlord-Tenant-Rental Issues And Possibly Vote Midafternoon Gunfire In ELB's Zaferia Neighborhood (4th dist./Supernaw)  Jan 1, 2018 to date: Red Xs=homicides; Blue Xs= shootings, person wounded; Brown Xs=shots fired at victim(s), not hit; Purple Xs=shots at occupied residence/vehicle; Green Xs= shots at unoccupied vehicle/residence; Grey Xs=shots fired (no hit, no target identified); Orange X's=non-fatal stabbings; Blue * asterisk=victim hit, police unable to locate crime scene. Map is unofficial. Follow the Money: On Election Eve, See These Latest Campaign Contribs/Largest Spending Totals In Race For LB-S.E. L.A. County State Senate District "CA League of Conservation Voters" Gives State Senate Candidate Gonzalez $2,500 Contrib After Big Oil Money Surfaces In Indie Campaign To Elect Her And She Avoids Saying If She Supports Or Opposes SB 246 (Proposed CA Oil Severance Tax) See Letter: U.S. Att'y Gen'l Barr's Summary Of Special Counsel Mueller's Report Says Trump Campaign Didn't Conspire/Cooperate With Russian Gov't In 2016 Presidential Election; Re Obstruction of Justice, Doesn't Conclude President Committed A Crime Or Exonerate Him, Leaves Decision to Att'y Gen'l Pres. Trump Tweets "complete and total exoneration"; Dems seek release of full report, signal follow-up hearings |
VIDEO: See It: Reverse Angle Video Shows What Seven Of LB's Nine Councilmembers/Mayor Were Doing While LB Taxpayer Spoke On Hot-Button Issue They've Refused To Agendize
WLB Overnight Gunfire, Area Delta Ave. b/w Spring/Willow Urgent Advisory: Att'n Dog Lovers: Hill's Science Diet/Prescription Diet Expands Its Voluntarily Recall Of Multiple Types Of Its Canned Dog Foods, See List Here LB Mayor Garcia In Sac'to Joins CA's 13 "Big City" Mayors In Asking For ONE BILLION State Taxpayer Dollars For CA Cities For Homeless In FY19-20, It Would Be Additional $500 Million On Top of $500 Million Gov. Newsom Previously Recommended  Image source:www.lamayor.org Trail Of Hail In NLB and ELB Anaheim City Council Hears Brief City Mgm't Update On Its Negotiations With Angels; An Anaheim Councilmember Says Anaheim Should Put Its Residents First, Shouldn't Let Angels Pressure City of Anaheim By Negotiating With City Of Long Beach With Perspective: The "Elephant" (Lot) In The Room: How Does Downtown Public Property City of Long Beach Said Was "Unavailable" For Public Pool Become Available For Private Major League Ball Club? With Perspective: LB Mayor/Council Schedule Closed Session To Discuss "Price/Terms Of Purchase and/Or Lease" For Convention Center Parking Lot. Some Say They'll Discuss A Possible Angels Deal. What About Brown (Open Meetings") Act? Anaheim City Council seeks management report in open session on their city's dealings with Angels State Senate Campaign For Dem Councilwoman Lena Gonzalez Says Repub Councilwoman Mungo Has Endorsed Her; Mungo Mum To Us First (Again) on LBREPORT.com: Internal City Records Obtained By LBREPORT.com Show What $1 Million Media Wall Will Look Like And What It Will Display City staff described it as part of new City Hall's "Critical Technology Needs Infrastructure"; Council voted  Statement by the Publisher: LBREPORT.com Extends New Offer To Candidate Gonzalez To Share With Us In Conversation And Let You Hear Her Answers To Questions By Us That Others Haven't Asked Follow the Money: Gonzalez State Senate Bid Busts $300k; See Who Gave Money And How It Was Used (Including Hiring An Oakland-Based Firm To Send Interactive Campaign Texts; Have You Received One?) A "Community Hospital Tax"? Mayor Garcia Slips Into Motion, And Council Approves, Request For City Staff "Options" -- Possibly After Not-Yet-Done Lease Binds LB Taxpayers To Pay $25 Million In Seismic Retrofit Costs -- To Fill Resulting General Fund "Revenue Gap" Mayor frames it as "investment" in city-owned buildings Council Votes Council votes send the proposal to its Housing & Neighborhoods Committee and Harbor Comm'n. The two bodies' recommendations, after public testimony will return to the City Council for voted action Do You Want New LB City Council/Harbor Commission Chambers In New City Hall Named "Bob Foster Civic Chambers?" Four Councilmembers Propose To Send Request (Letter Signed By 36 Individuals We Name) First To A Council Committee & Harbor Comm'n Before Council Decision Sac'to Bill To Let Councils In 10 Cities -- Including LB -- Allow 4 a.m. Bar/Restaurant Alcohol Hours Advances After Sharply Contrasting State Senate Committee Testimony Pitting Hotel/Tourism Interests vs. Public Safety Groups; Only One Committee Hurdle Left Before Full Senate Vote Might position on the bill become as issue in LB-S.E. LA County state Senate race in view of candidate Gonzalez's 2012 DUI? Statement by the Publisher / Opinion: LBREPORT.com Marks National "Sunshine Week" In Long Beach, Where In Some Areas The Sun Never Shines VIDEO: State Senate Hopefuls Hoping For Runoff With LB Councilwoman Gonzalez Say She's Not A Lock At Regional Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Candidate Forum  AND New / Follow-Up: Here's Where State Senate Candidate Lena Gonzalez Was After Her Campaign Told Regional Hispanic Chamber Of Commerce In February She'd Be Unable To Attend Group's Follow the Money: See Who Gave Big Bucks At Garcia/Lara Fundraiser To Put LB Councilwoman Gonzalez In State Senate, In Add'n To These Other Recent Large Contribs Gov. Newsom Seeks State Legislation Requiring Cities To Meet Higher "Regional Housing Needs Assessment" Figures Faster, Punish Cities Sac'to Deems "Non-Compliant" On Land Use/Zoning/Entitlements By Cutting Off Their Driver-Paid Road Repair Dollars Under 2017 Gasoline Tax Increase Subsequent coverage above State Senate Candidate Lena Gonzalez Won't Be Present at Subsequent coverage above Community Hospital Long Term Deal Not Done, City Staff Seeks "Interim" (Short Term) Lease As Negotiations Continue On Fiscal Impacts Of Major Terms That Could Require LB Taxpayers To Pay Privately-Owned LLC Up To $25 Million (Half Of Seismic Retrofit Costs) While LLC Runs Smaller-Than-Former Version Of Community Hospital For Its Profit On City Owned Land For $1/Year On-Demand AUDIO: Hear LB Mayor/Councilmembers Justify/Commend Spending $6.5 Mil -- Part Of $9 Mil Total Cost -- From State Taxpayers' Tidelands Funds To Build A New Downtown-Adjacent Beach Concession Stand (Incl. Public Bathrooms, Kids Play Area, Bldg To Rent Beach Items) AND Record Shows State Lands Comm'n Voted To Approve Multi-Million Dollar Expenditure From State Tidelands For Long Beach Shoreline Concession Stands With No Discussion; City Council Voted To Spend Roughly $9 Million From Tidelands For One Adjacent To Downtown; Others Further Away Budgeted For Much Less  Image source: March 5 city staff agendized report |
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Opinion: Long Beach's 2018 "Outrage of the Year" And Its Impacts For 2019 And Beyond
Editorial: Shots Fired (Again) In Long Beach Neighborhood Left These Bullet Casings Found By Resident; Gunfire-Location Technology Could Have Told Cops Shooting Site In Seconds To Help Nab Shooters Like This, But Long Beach Politicians Evade It, Because...
