Column: When Long Beach sunk the plan to ship the Queen Mary to Japan
In mid-May 1997, after two hours of discussion, the council torpedoed the Queen’s adventure to Japan.
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Opinion: Remembering George Floyd
As a Latino, I cannot pretend to understand what it is like to be a Black man in America but I can relate with the feeling of total helplessness during an interaction with law enforcement.
Column: New bridge name voting is over. We have a ‘winner’
The name that you shall call the bridge henceforth: Long Beach International Gateway Bridge.
Column: Dollars to doughnuts—using freebies to lure people into getting their lives saved
Here in Long Beach, you can be entered into a drawing for a Nintendo Switch or a couple of nights in one of the city’s fine hotels. The catch? To be eligible you have to get a vaccination that will prevent you from dying a slow and miserable death.
Editorial: Violence in Long Beach then and now
What’s the story behind the latest surge in shootings?
Column: Why Southern Californians throw a ‘the’ in front of freeway names and numbers
Many of the weak-of-heart who have over the years abandoned the southern part of the the aptly-named Golden State, have kept the “the,” so you’ll hear it now and again in some of the lesser western states. But it remains, by birth, a Southern California thing.
Editorial: How are the migrant children being treated at the Long Beach Convention Center?
Sanctuary without accountability is unconscionable.
Editorial: ¿Cómo se trata a los niños migrantes en el Centro de Convenciones de Long Beach?
Santuario sin responsabilidad es inconcebible.
Editorial: Thoughts on the Chauvin trial from the Community Editorial Board
Members of the Long Beach Post’s Community Editorial Board shared their thoughts on the Derek Chauvin trial before the verdict was announced Tuesday. Here’s what they had to say about the larger issue of injustice.
Opinion: Long Beach’s dirty secret
Beyond the political rhetoric about sustainability lies the truth: Long Beach is an oil town.
Column: Recalling the Cinerama Dome. Twice.
I did manage to see one film at the Cinerama Dome. It was my birthday, Jan. 12, 1969 and I asked my parents to drop me and my best friend off at the theater to see Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
List: How you can help combat homelessness
The following is a list of ways you can help combat homelessness, including contacting local leaders, supporting groups and resources to understand the issue and help others.
Editorial: To confront homelessness, we need new thinking, not entrenched politics
Permanent Supportive Housing is the best model that we have for individuals experiencing homelessness to be able to establish long-term independence.
Opinion: What does homelessness mean to you?
Lack of access to education, lack of access to living-wage jobs, lack of access to mental health services and other health services, mass incarceration, and systemic racism, are some examples of the systemic barriers that create homelessness.
Editorial: Make green space not development the priority on the LA Riverfront
City parks are essential to the quality of life, health, resilience, and overall well-being of our communities.
Editorial: LBUSD debe apuntar a las ganancias inesperadas del alivio de la pandemia a los estudiantes que se quedan más atrás
Exigimos que los miembros de la junta escolar recuperen su poder para garantizar la transparencia y el gasto equitativo para reducir las disparidades educativas.
Opinion: The unspoken costs of pandemic education
Re-empowering educators to do what they do best
Editorial: LBUSD must target pandemic-relief windfall to students falling further behind
We demand school board members reclaim their power to ensure transparency and equitable spending to narrow educational disparities.
Editorial: To the mayor and City Council: Who are you trying to help?
We have a historic opportunity to invest in our children, at-risk youth, senior citizens, and those disadvantaged communities most devastated by the pandemic. But only if our elected leaders make the right choices.
Opinion: Trump asks us to remember what he’s done to combat COVID. How could we forget?
Without getting tangled up in the intricacies of medical science and the whole messy business about how viruses work, Trump nearly a year ago put the threat of coronavirus in terms that a layperson could understand: “It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”