PODCAST – How to voice your opinion regarding Long Beach redistricting
This week, the Chair of the Long Beach Independent Redistricting Commission, Alejandra Gutierrez, provides insight into how the process works.
Jury begins deliberating in case of ex-LBPD detective accused of leaking police secrets
The jury will now sort through evidence including wiretapped calls, confidential police reports, surprise witness testimony, gang colors and a red dress.
The delta variant is dominating in Long Beach; is a lockdown coming or is this wave different?
The delta variant “is now everywhere,” including in Long Beach. It sent case rates soaring, but—so far—hospitalizations haven’t spiked nearly as much.
Crews begin work on Grand Prix track as race makes its way back from two-year hiatus
Setting the track up will take about 53 days, according to race organizers and a total of about two and half weeks to tear down.
With neighborhoods split in past redistricting, some want a new commission to fix old mistakes
“It was hell,” former Councilwoman Rae Gabelich said, recounting the redistricting process from 2011. “It was absolute hell.”
What election? California Democrats worry over recall apathy
Every California voter will get a ballot in the mail before the Sept. 14 recall contest, but Republicans appear more eager to participate.
The Colonnas list their Park Avenue French farmhouse for $3.175 and head back to the Peninsula
Colonna is happy enough going back to the home at the tip of the Peninsula—moving between the two locations is sort of the luxury version of “out of the frying pan, into the kettle.”
‘Investing in a better tomorrow’: CSULB program helps formerly incarcerated people prepare for academic and professional success
CSULB is one of five campuses that received funding from the state university system to start new chapters of Project Rebound.
More than 2,000 elegant tern chicks rescued at Long Beach Harbor in last month
The chicks, who aren’t quite ready to fly or swim, keep stumbling off into the water from two anchored 180-foot-long barges, according to officials.
How a Long Beach environmental ‘hero’ landed in bankruptcy court facing potential $70 million in debts
Ruben Garcia developed a high-tech bonnet that covered a ship’s smokestack while it idles in port, an innovation that promised to capture as much as 80% of its emissions. But one of his more than 50 creditors is alleging his companies were a kind of Ponzi scheme.