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Continually updated Confirmed LB shootings (fatal + non-fatal + no-hit) since Aug. 1 and homicides since Jan. 1. On July 31, Mayor Garcia recommended a FY19 budget that restored 5 add'l net citywide deployable officers, leaving 186 such officers unrestored. On Sept. 4, Council approved this
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New: LBPD Arrests Suspect In Fatal Shooting Of 24 Yr Old Anna Perez (Pacific/4th St.) UPDATE: Sat. Vandenberg rocket launch SCRUBBED seconds before liftoff. United Launch Alliance (ULA) tweets it was "due to an unexpected condition during terminal count. The team is reviewing all data and will determine the path forward. A new launch date will be provided when available." New: City Hall-Hired Attorney Says LBPD Use Of Self-Destructing Text Message App Didn't/Doesn't Break Laws Or Jeopardize Criminal Cases Or Violate Public Records Act Or Violate City Hall-Written Policies Opinion from LBREPORT.com publisher Pearl: "In our opinion, the document's defensive contentions invite abuses of the CA Public Records Act that the City Council can and should act to prevent."  New: "KLBP/Long Beach Public Radio," New Licensed Low-Power Non-Comm'l FM Station Will Have Low Wattage But High Enthusiasm, Station Engineers Race To Meet FCC Air Deadline
100 watt air signal at 99.1 FM from Port-leased tower expected to cover downtown and nearby areas plus simulcast on internet listenable worldwide First (Again) on LBREPORT.com: Long Beach Councilman Roberto Uranga Files 2020 Papers Readying 2019 Run For LB-Huntington Park State Senate Seat; Councilman Austin Filed 2020 Papers In Fall 2017; Candidates From Smaller Cities Also Preparing New: Dec. 6: Man Walking In Wrigley District Is Shot/Wounded, Area 20th/San Francisco (7th Dist.) First (Again) on LBREPORT.com: Taxpayer Lawsuit Challenging VIDEO coverage coming: A Long Beach Tradition, Saturday Dec. 8 @ 5:00 p.m.: LB's Daisy Ave. Christmas Tree Lane Parade New: Council Votes New: SF State Senator Wiener Keeps His Word/Strikes Again: Introduces New Bill -- |
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On LBReport.com Council approves this item 7-0 (Gonzalez, Mungo absent) Councilmember Price, Plus Pearce & Supernaw, Agendize Significant Homeless-Related Request: They Want To Know How Many Private, Non-Profit And Public Shelter Beds Currently Exist In Long Beach. Here's Why That's A Very Big Deal Periscope / Perspective: Most Of These Impactful Items Are About To Surface During December Holiday Period: Former Repub incumbent irked SE LB by voting for Dem-backed SB 562 (enabler for costly new downtown LB Civic Center) & SB 35 ("streamlined" certain increased housing density that overrides certain local zoning req'ts and resident appeals) Follow-Up / Perspective: Annamarie Perez, 24, Fatally Shot In Downtown LB Was From LB, Lived In LB, Attended LBCC; "Go Fund Me" Page Invites Help To Pay For Her Funeral It's second "Go Fund Me" effort related to a LB homicide in a little less than two months Subsequent coverage above 24 Year Old Woman Is Fatally Shot In Downtown LB (Pacific/4th St.)...And LBPD Says Shooting Appears Related To Verbal Alercation Between Two Groups of Men And Women...And Victim Wasn't Believed To Be Part Of Either Group About thirty mins later, a man driving in area 7th/Redondo was shot/wounded Long Beach Council Vote Scheduled Driver Crashes At 7th/Redondo After He's Shot/Wounded Nearby Occurred roughly thirty minutes after 300 Pacific homicide in DTLB Further On  $30,000 reward continues for information leading to apprehension and conviction of person(s) responsible for July murder in ELB's Pan Am Park LBFD Says 38th Place Fatal Fire Was Accidental, Victim Had Limited Mobility, Contributing Factors Were Home Oxygen Use And Smoking City Staff Asks Council To Cut Nearly In Half Sale Price Of This Taxpayer-Owned Key North Long Beach Property (NE area Atlantic/Artesia), Reducing Price For Buyer/Developer By $1 Million Citing City-Req'd "Community Benefiting Design Features," Using A Sac'to Law Intended To Promote "Economic Opportunity" Follow the Money: Mayor Garcia Uses Contributions To His 2018 Re-Election Campaign To Make A Second $50,000 Loan To Garcia-Operated Garcia/Doud-Named Pro-AAA-DDD Committee LBPD Impounds Vehicle, Identifies 86 Year Old Woman As Suspect, No Arrests Made At This Point In Alleged Hit/Run (Bellflower/27th St.), Skateboard Rider Remains In Critical Condition Free, Fun Nature Walk Thru Los Cerritos Wetlands: Woman Dies Belmont Shore Area Apartment Fire (38th Place)  LBFD photo Follow the Money: After Election, Garcia/Doud "Good Gov't" Pro-Charter Amendment Committee Collects $13,500 From These Entities Subsequent development: Sheriff McDonnell has conceded the election outcome Do The Math: Retired Sheriff Lt. Villanueva Now Leads Sheriff McDonnell By 105,036 Votes With Approx. 185,000 Ballots Left To Be Counted; McDonnell Says Appropriate Preparations Underway for An Orderly Transition "If That Becomes Necessary" Central LB Gunfire On Thanksiving Night: Casings/Witnesses Found But No Person(s) Hit North of LBCC's PCH Campus (6th dist.); It's Within Blocks Of Other 2018 Shootings/Woundings And At Least Two Homicides And It Comes Less Than A Week After Double-Homicide Area 17th/Alamitos South of LBCC Campus  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. A separate map (not shown here) shows shootings in NLB Overnight Gunfire in NLB, 400 block E. South St. (Border 8th/9th dists) LBPD Seeks Public's Help In ID'ing Bicycle-Riding Suspect Believed Responsible For Groping Women One Day After 17th/Alamitos Double-Homicide, Shots Heard/Casings Found About A Quarter Mile West, Area PCH/Myrtle Across From Poly High (6th dist.) Exiting Governor Brown Pardons Former State Senator Roderick Wright, Dem Rep'd Part of LB, Convicted Of Felonies Incl. Fraudulent Voting & Perjury For Which He Consistently Maintained His Innocence State Sen. Janet Nguyen Falls Further Behind Dem Challenger Tom Umberg; LB Votes May Send SE LB-West OC Repub Incumbent Down To Defeat Nguyen voted for Dem-backed SB 35 (enabled increased density for some housing developments by overriding local zoning/resident appeal rights) and SB 562 (LB City Hall-sought enabler for Civic Center transaction) Subsequent coverage above Sheriff Jim McDonnell Trails Challenger Retired Lt. Alex Villanueva By 86,920 Votes...With Estimated 261,000 Ballots Remaining To Be Counted Man And Woman -- LB Residents In Their 50s -- Driving In Neighborhood About A Block South of LBCC's Central LB PCH Campus Are Shot And Killed It's LB's fifth shooting crime-scene since Nov. 10, the sixth since Nov. 7  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. A separate map (not shown here) shows shootings in NLB As seen LIVE: Council approves As seen LIVE: Council approves Challenger Villanueva Widens His Lead Over Sheriff McDonnell, Roughly 58,000 Votes Now Separate Them With About 422,000 Ballots Remaining To Be Counted Perspective: With Lara Likely Next Insurance Comm'r, Who Might Seek His Vacant State Senate Seat? Man Says He Was Shot/Wounded, Area 10th St./Locust Ave. Election Follow-Up: Reform Coalition Campaign Was Outspent Roughly 7 To 1 Against Its Effort To Stop Mayor/Council Sought Term Limits Change BBB enacted with largest number of "No" votes among four proposed Charter Amendments Follow the Money: One Day Before Election, Garcia Loaned $50,000 From His 2018 Mayoral Re-Election Campaign Committee To Garcia-Run (Garcia/Doud Named) Pro-AAA-DDD Committee...And It Still Leaves Pro-AAA-DDD Committee With $153,000 In Unpaid Bills (Some Possibly From June Pro-Measure M Campaign) Follow the Money: Pro-BBB/DDD "Economic and Policy Impact Center" Campaign" Received $15,000 From Two Unions, Spent/Incurred Expenses Over $19,000 In Campaign To Link Term Limits Change To Redistricting Comm'n, Calling Them Both Voting/Civil Rights Issues |
News / Perspective: "Animal Care Visioning Task Force" -- With No-Kill Leaders Muzzled From Membership By Mayor -- Let City Mgm't Run Its Latest Meeting, Offer Information Without Meaningful Challenge, Conduct Proceedings Nearly Inaudible By Audience And Let Public Speak Only After Discussion Of All Agendized Items Was Over  Perspective: By The Numbers: Councilmembers Gonzalez & Andrews (And Former-Councilman/Now-Mayor Garcia) On Police Officers For LB Taxpayers Perspective / Opinion: How Much Will 60-Day Animal License Amnesty Collect And Where Will It Be Spent? Council Said Nothing...But Should Perspective / Opinion: Here's Mayor/Council Political Playbook That Propelled Term-Limit Changing BBB...And What Could Happen Next Opinion / Amnesia File: Revisiting Robert Garcia's Record As Councilman And Now Mayor On Redistricting; Will Cambodia-Town Votes On DDD Tilt The Outcome On His Desired Term Limit-Changing BBB? Perspective: Where Was Mayor Garcia During Editorial: Independent Or Politically Editorial: Non-Study Session "To Receive An Update On The Queen Mary" Editorial: No-Kill Animal Shelter Advocates Spotted Issues Years Ago That Auditor Acknowledges Now; They Deserve A Seat At The Table; Council Should Agendize Discussion Of Auditor's Report; Mayor Should Add, Instead Of Exclude, No Kill Advocates To His "Visioning Task Force" Perspective: A Moral Issue: Hear What LB Fire Chief Said About Firefighting Effects Of Hi-Rise Density...As Mgmt/Mayor Again Fail To Recommend Restoring Downtown Density Fire Engine 101 Editorial: City Auditor's "Performance Audit" On Animal Shelter Gives Pols Political Cover For Budgets That Begat Issues She Identifies Attempting To De-Code Mayor/Council Code of Silence As These Sac'to Bills Advance (SB 905 (4 a.m. Bar Bill) and AB 931 (That LB Police Chief Said Could Endanger Officers And The Public) Perspective / Opinion: Long Beach Charter Amendment Hearings Shrugged This State Law Enacted After City of Bell Scandal 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  |
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