The number of people experiencing homelessness in Long Beach increased by over 1,300, according to the city’s point-in-time count data, which the city released Friday afternoon.
No work stoppages are being planned, the union and employers say, as they would be catastrophic to the already overburdened supply chain.
“Happy, healthy, fluffy cats—those are the ones that shelters can get placed,” said CatPAWS cofounder Deborah Felin-Magaldi. “The ones who need help are the ones that cost money, quite frankly. This grant will help us help them.”
For a year beginning in September 2017, the company failed to resolve over 29,000 provider disputes in a timely manner, which resulted in late payments.
Miller Children’s & Women’s treats more than 14,000 children each year and has become a regional pediatric destination for more than 84,000 children in need of specialized care.
Police said the person was found at the golf course around 6 a.m.
The city is continuing to reinvent itself in ways that will, ideally, ease the burden of rising housing costs while offering better amenities and a more diverse array of businesses, shops and restaurants for the community.
Estimates of the crowd size in town varied from 40,000 to 60,000 visitors, either way filling the town and the strand as they had never been filled before.
The funding includes major investments around the San Gabriel River and El Dorado Park, but activists say park-poor neighborhoods in other parts of the city are being short-changed.
Basic self-defense steps to protect yourself while out and about.
Vanndearlyn Vong uses her art to raise money for the Long Beach Southeast Asian Anti-Deportation Collective. She hopes to keep the traditional practice of Khmer ceramics alive for generations to come.
Taryn Williams went from Long Beach honors student to robbing a store with a pocket knife. But her life changed in prison, and she wants to make sure others get the opportunities she did.
Did you miss out on attending this year’s Building a Better Long Beach? Don’t worry—you can catch up on Mayor Robert Garcia’s update on all of the city’s development news now.
Long Beach’s lobbyist ordinance is 13 years old, but, so far, no one has been charged with violating it. Critics say that may be due to loopholes the city’s Ethics Commission is now trying to close.
As the 2028 Olympics—set to be hosted in Los Angeles—draw nearer, Long Beach continues to prepare for its role in the international event.
Democrats who control California’s government chose to send cash to taxpayers instead of suspending the gas tax as Republicans wanted.
