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BLACK, WHITE & SEEING RED ALL OVER? IT’S THE MEDIA MOGUL MAYOR!
BY TINA VASQUEZ / The Downey Patriot The photo of the City of Downey’s emotionally moving memorial to fallen police officers that DowneyBeat.com editor John Zander posted March 5 on the online newspaper’s Facebook page didn’t move everybody’s emotions equally. Zander’s heart swelled for the Downey police officers who risk their lives in the line of [...]
OVER 6,000 CELEBRATE NATIVE CULTURE, HISTORY AT PUVUNGNA POW WOW
BY ARIELLA RAMS and ALISON TRUAX / Daily 49er The booming of drumbeats, jingling of ornate Native American costumes and smells of fresh fry bread filled the air Saturday and Sunday as the Cal State Puvungna Pow Wow was observed on the Tongva people’s sacred land at Cal State Long Beach for the 43rd consecutive [...]
KARL ROVE TO CALIFORNIA GOP: “GET OFF YOUR ASS!”
[ This lead-and-link appears with the permission of the Sacramento Bee, in accordance with GreaterLongBeach.com policy, which is based upon respect for the work of journalists and a belief that the source of a story is part of that story. ] BY TOREY OOT / Sacramento Bee SACRAMENTO—In their latest effort to rebuild and rebrand, California Republicans [...]
HAVE-A-GREATER-WEEKEND: A PATCHWORK OF INK, IRON AND ECO TRIPS
Have-A-Greater-Weekend? It's not just a command----it's a weekly strategy, a service of GreaterLongBeach.com that's guaranteed to make all the workin' you do for the weekend totally worth it.
FORMER CSULB STUDENT BODY PREZ EARNS PURPLE HEART IN AFGHANISTAN
By ALFRED PALLARCA / DAILY 49ER A former student body president at California State University/Long Beach will receive a Purple Heart award after incurring a serious combat wound during a United States Marines mission in Afghanistan. Mark Andrews, who served as CSULB’s president of Associated Students, Inc., during his senior year of 2008-2009, suffered a [...]
BEYOND GREATER: BRUTALISM’S BACKSTABBERS … ET TU, LONG BEACH?
A New York government building designed in the Brutalism style of archetecture---just like the Long Beach Civic Center (above)---is being considered for demolition ... a frequent topic for this building in Long Beach. Why? Among other things, people hate it.
KINDE DURKEE: THE QUESTION ISN’T IF SHE DID IT, BUT WHERE SHE PUT IT
BY AMANDA BECKER / RollCall.com Kinde Durkee’s plea of guilty Friday to five counts of mail fraud against her clients—translation, to embezzling more than $7 million from the campaign bank accounts of California political candidates—did not answer the question that’s been asked most since since she was arrested in September: Where did the money go? [...]
WAGES & BENEFITS: DO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES HAVE IT BETTER? IF SO, WHY?
A resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute believes public-sector employees have it better than those in the private sector. In this interview with RollCall.com, Andrew Biggs explores why and what might be done about it
SPANISH-LANGUAGE MEDIA ON A MISSION TO MOTIVATE VIEWERS TO VOTE
The nation's top two Spanish-language media networks, Univision and Telemundo, have launched separate get-out-the-vote efforts ahead of this fall’s elections so as to capitalize on their broad reach into Hispanic households and to mobilize viewers. They don't influence how viewers vote, just that they should.
EXCLUSIVE! LOWENTHAL EXPLAINS WHY HE SEEKS NO SALES TAX ON SHIP FUEL
At the request of GreaterLong Beach.com, state Senator---and Congressional candidate---Alan Lowenthal explains his thinking in introducing SB 1243, which would permanently exempt large ships from paying California sales tax on fuel at the same time that California residents are being asked to raise their own taxes
HAVE-A-GREATER-WEEKEND: SEE “THE ARTIST” AT THE ART BEFORE CINEMATHEQUE’S OSCAR PARTY
[Editor's note: This spontaneous Have-A-Greater-Weekend recommendation comes from a regular GreaterLongBeach.com reader who calls him/herself by the initials DWR in the comment sections. Such submissions are always appreciated. Also, for the record, GreaterLongBeach.com is the media sponsor of the Long Beach Cinematheque's current membership drive.] By DWR I saw The Artist at the Art Theatre [...]
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