Les Robbins
Follow the Healthcare Money
It is looking more and more like congress will finally address, seriously, the issue of health care. Perhaps it took the threat of reconciliation to get the ball moving but whatever has happened things seem to be progressing. Reconciliation, which is a legal maneuver that allows legislation to be passed with a simple majority instead of the super majority of 60 votes is long overdue especially with ... more
Randy Gordon
Expansion, Not Elimination
We are in a time of double-digit unemployment rates, significant underemployment, minimal economic diversity, budget deficits, and a record-high of inventory of vacant business and industrial space. Expansion, not elimination of the California Enterprise Zone program that rewards businesses and employees for locating and expanding in economically challenged neighborhoods, including a large portion ... more
Jay Beeler
Beachcombing
Frequent readers of this column will remember prior references to my wife’s childhood home in Conshohocken, Penna., just west of Philadelphia. Her step-father, Hank, who died in 2000, was responsible for the red shag carpet that covered the bathroom walls and linoleum serving as the bathtub shower walls. It was in that same bathroom that her mother died in 2006.
Last week my contractor nephew, ... more
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Farmers Market Comes to Towne
For the past ten years, the Long Beach Towne Center has filled an important niche in Long Beach area shopping and entertainment needs. There’s the theater, more than a few eating places with a wide variety of cuisine and, of course, a variety of window shopping locales.
As of May, get ready for the newest shopping opportunity. According to Harbor ...
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Bus Riders See Rates Rise
A regular bus rider got a surprise when he boarded the 172 headed to Trader Joe's in the Los Altos shopping center the evening of Saturday, Feb. 20.
He deposited the usual $1.10 upon entry and proceeded to take his seat only to have the bus driver yell “It’s $1.25.”
Shocked, the regular bus rider asked, “What do you mean?” The driver pointed ...
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Row, Row, Row Your Boat
The Long Beach Junior Crew, or LBJC, is a rowing club and non-profit organization for high school students in the Long Beach area that has a reputation for producing college athletes and national champions. They are in the middle of their 23rd rowing season and recently qualified to be interscholastic with the Long Beach Unified School District to ...
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Illegal signs being posted throughout city.
Wannabe Prosecutor Breaking City Sign Laws
Despite being warned not to put up political campaign signs on public property, Timothy O’Reilly signs have been illegally placed on public property and private property without the consent of property owners.
By simply driving through the city, numerous “Elect Timothy O’Reilly City Prosecutor” signs can be seen at various locations.
By placing ...
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Illegal Signs
Editor:
You are sure right ! Not only are they on a light pole in parking lot, of Park Crest Center, 3960 & 3962 N. Studebaker Rd. Long Beach, they were attached 12’ off the ground.
Del Johnson
Editor:
I have a deep track record with this matter in local cities.
They lie. The cities do, and so do the police.
I asked each city to ...
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