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Tim Grobaty

September 12, 2018

Aquarium chief Jerry Schubel explains our ocean is a mess, but you can help a little bit on Saturday

by Tim Grobaty in Commentary

You can clean up local beaches on California Coastal Cleanup Day on Saturday. Then you can worry about the problems plaguing the ocean as a whole. Aquarium of the Pacific's CEO explains that it's a mess out there.

Commentary

Tim Grobaty

September 4, 2018

The political boycott: shopping made impossible

by Tim Grobaty in Commentary

Stores that sold Ivanka Trump products, such as Macy's and Nordstrom, were heckled and bullyragged by Democrats into dumping those products, which prompted Trump to call for a boycott of the same stores, which further had the effect of...

Commentary

Tim Grobaty

August 27, 2018

Business and pleasure collide at Saturday’s Beach Streets

by Tim Grobaty in Commentary

The event drew a relatively small crowd. And while participants no doubt had a grand time at the event, some restaurant owners were, as is always the case when Shoreline is shut down, angry about what they termed a...

Commentary

Tim Grobaty

August 23, 2018

Senate bill would allow drinking until 4 a.m., but we think you’ve had enough

by Tim Grobaty in Commentary

In Long Beach it would pretty much pertain only to bars at or near the Convention Center, and not in Belmont Shore or Bixby Knolls or anywhere else you’ll find places that regularly serve alcohol.

Filming

August 21, 2018

VIDEO: Stuntman zips across Broadway as part of filming for ‘Lethal Weapon’

by Tim Grobaty in Filming

Traffic will impacted on Pine Avenue and Long Beach Boulevard, as film crews will be stopping motor vehicles intermittently throughout the day through Wednesday.

Commentary

Tim Grobaty

August 20, 2018

My long-ago would-be molester had a long history of abusing kids

by Tim Grobaty in Commentary

Shuttling a priest accused of such abuse was the common and quiet way for the church to shield itself from the onslaught of accusations that would decades later swamp Catholicism's priests, bishops and the Vatican itself.

Commentary

Tim Grobaty

August 19, 2018

An in-house confession that went a sin too far

by Tim Grobaty in Commentary

My mom would never, ever, give up a chance to have a priest stay the night in our house, especially one as relentlessly Irish and convivial as Father O.

Commentary

Tim Grobaty

August 16, 2018

The media as ‘your enemy’ is perhaps Trump’s biggest lie

by Tim Grobaty in Commentary

Now, more than ever, the media has to keep an extraordinarily vigilant watch over the actions and words of the leader of this country. In happier times it didn’t need to be said that a free press is essential...

Commentary

Tim Grobaty

August 13, 2018

East Long Beach is once again confronting the enemy that is change

by Tim Grobaty in Commentary

A Seal Beach-based company is toying with the idea of building residences on the LBCC-owned land between Los Coyotes Diagonal and Palo Verde Avenue in Council District 5.

Arts & Culture, Life

Tim Grobaty

August 9, 2018

It’s Book Lovers Day. Here are 9 Long Beach authors, past and present, to love

by Tim Grobaty in Arts & Culture, Life

In 1968, while still in his 20s, Leonard wrote a book set in Long Beach called “Crybaby of the Western World,” a strange and zany work of speculative fiction in which the city was termed “a kind of strip-mining...