Long Beach Restaurant Association launches fundraiser to help workers weather dine-in shutdown
The fundraiser’s goal is $100,000, with the money collected to be distributed on New Year’s Eve at the Boathouse on the Bay restaurant.
What comes after the worst year ever?
Surely 2020 turned out to be the worst one yet for many millions of people. If nothing else, it’s unified the world in a hatred for a year expressed in every language.
Long Beach escaped flames during historic fire season, but how toxic is all the smoke we’ve had?
Microscopic toxic compounds cause most of wildfires’ bad health effects, said a professor of environmental chemistry at the University of Washington. “If you’re seeing the big particles like those covering your car, absolutely there will also be the more dangerous particulate matter.”
Opinion: In fighting COVID, right now it’s life over liberty and the pursuit of happiness
Discussion and disagreements regarding the disease basically involves politics vs. science vs. business, and in terms of the public’s acceptance of Newsom’s mandate, politics and business have trumped science.
Column: This year we’ll do Thanksgiving the Health Department way
My wife, daughter Hannah and I sitting at one end of the 12-foot bar and our son Ray at the other, all of us bound up in winter coats and masks while the sibling dogs Annie and Jasper beg and bark piteously for scraps.
During pandemic East Long Beach homes are selling quickly and above list prices
Houses are virtually flying off the shelves in the East Long Beach real estate market, according to area Realtors, who are seeing homes sell quickly, and often for more than their listing price.
Opinion: Where’s Assemblyman Patrick O’Donnell? We’ve looked aloha the place
Who’s going to fault a state lawmaker for taking a break from the grueling job of doing whatever it is he does on the mainland for a few days at Wailea Beach?
With threat of curfew and stricter COVID-19 rules, businesses brace for long, painful winter
“It’s a tough spot where you don’t want to go out of business but you also don’t want to kill people,” one business owner said.
Opinion: Put on a giant pot of coffee for tonight’s marathon City Council meeting
Just one meeting a month—one for November and one for December—is too cavalier of a pace for a city that is, like all American cities, in the midst of a very serious financial and health catastrophe.
Alex Trebek’s leisurely drive in the 2009 Grand Prix’s Pro/Celebrity race
Trebek, the popular host of the long-running “Jeopardy!” game show died last Sunday at the age of 80. We remember his trip to the Long Beach Grand Prix.