The Billie Jean King Library? Long Beach’s city council likes the idea
Billie Jean King is a Long Beach legend but some feel her accomplishments are more athletic than education-based. The new Main Library could soon bear her name.
City will wait to adjust cannabis taxes while it studies economic impact
One official said that if the city wants to ensure that it reaps the benefits from an emerging industry like cannabis, it needs to lower barriers to entry.
Permanent sales tax heads toward 2020 ballot as leaders move to declare fiscal emergency
With little dissent from the public, the council on Tuesday gave direction to staff to write an ordinance declaring a fiscal emergency, the first step in the process of potentially putting a permanent extension of Measure A on the ballot.
The impact of climate change on Long Beach port will be profound
Three of 10 shipping piers at the Port of Long Beach could be inundated with water—one of which houses a Southern California Edison substation—even in the mildest sea-level rise projections, according to an assessment risk compiled by the port.
Nature can soften impacts of rising seas—if we let it
Some say the future of protecting California’s coasts, and the developments behind them, will include more natural solutions like restoring wetlands and other habitats so they can help slow storm surges and combat other effects of sea level rise.