Being Black means you’re more likely to be stopped, searched by Long Beach police, new data shows
Despite making up only about 13% of Long Beach’s population, Black motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists made up 24% of the LBPD’s traffic stops in 2019.
Scooters have begun to re-appear in nearly every city—why not Long Beach?
Long Beach and Miami are the only two cities in the world where Lime and Bird’s e-scooter fleets have not been redistributed. The city is working on allowing scooters again.
‘I have no choice’: Protesting during COVID
Protests run in opposition to what has been ordered by public health officers: do not gather. So why are protesters doing it?
City Council to consider plan to block numerous streets to auto traffic for street dining
More than 25 streets are proposed to be blocked to vehicle traffic in all 9 council districts to increase dining space for restaurants.
Construction start for 42-acre San Pedro Public Market pushed to 2021
Developers of the 42-acre San Pedro Public Market, the project taking over the area’s famed waterfront, have announced that they will push the groundbreaking to 2021 and an anticipated opening to 2022, following the continuation of the COVID pandemic.
‘You can’t disentangle them:’ City’s top health official discusses protests and COVID
The mass protests come at a diametric opposition to what the social mantra of the COVID pandemic has been: Stay inside as much as possible and certainly do not gather.
‘We can’t watch our neighbors go down,’ so they banded together to protect them from looting
There was an awful moment Sunday for Leocadio Vazquez-Lopez when his happiness with the anti-police brutality protest suddenly turned to deep anxiety.