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SORT OF TYPICALLY, COUNCIL SORT OF DECIDES TO SORT OF BAN POT OUTLETS
LONG BEACH—Faced with proposal to ban medical marijuana outlets that—whatever else its pros and cons—would have finally established a clear City of Long Beach policy on the contentious issue, the City Council talked for two hours Tuesday night and then voted 8-1 to ban some outlets, temporarily permit others and revisit the issue later. Some [...]
MEDPOT VOTE PREP: GREATER LB RADIO’S ‘FOUR GUYS TALKING ABOUT POT’
City Clerk Larry Herrera pulls the winners of Long Beach's lottery for medical marijuana permits from a blue recycling bin because the machine purchased for the event was useless when somebody bought ping-pong balls that were too big for the pneumatic tubes. The Long Beach City Council may vote to ban dispensaries tonight.
NICK SCHOU OF OC WEEKLY TO DISCUSS CONTROVERSIAL LB MEDPOT STORY ON GREATER LB RADIO WEDNESDAY
Award-winning reporter and author Nick Schou, whose current OC Weekly cover story about medpot dispensaries in Long Beach also serves as a disturbing case study of the institutional culture at City Hall, will be the featured guest Greater Long Beach Radio with Dave Wielenga on Wednesday, Feb. 8, at 7 p.m. on KBEACH.org.Schou and Wielenga, [...]
OC WEEKLY STORY ON MEDPOT A DISTURBING LOOK AT LONG BEACH OFFICIALS
After approving medpot dispensaries in 2010 and conducting a fiasco of a lottery to determine their locations, the City Council is on the verge---twice delaying its vote--of outlawing them. Meanwhile, Long Beach collects millions in pot-related fees and fines, simultaneously permitting and prosecuting various dispensaries.
COMMIE GIRL: PROTESTING THE PROTESTERS WHO ARE PROTESTING THE PRESIDENT
It's great that people are pressuring President Obama from the left, but not if these Occupy kids are being co-opted to actively sit out the next election because Obama is just another “bought and paid for” politician. I’m sure President Romney will do just great, and all these kids’ dreams will come true!
Because the Youngs of Occupy LA have apparently never lived to regret their two (2) votes for Ralph Nader votes
COUNCIL VOTES TO SEND CITY’S MEDICAL MARIJUANA ORDINANCE UP IN SMOKE
LBReport.com has learned that in an Oct. 11 closed session, the City Council voted 8-1 (Rae Gabelich dissenting) to direct the City Attorney to prepare an ordinance that, if enacted, will repeal the city’s current medical marijuana ordinance — and ban medical marijuana collectives/dispensaries in Long Beach — with the understanding that the issue may [...]
OCCUPYLONGBEACH AND GREGGORY MOORE WILL OCCUPY GREATER LONG BEACH RADIO TONIGHT AT 7 O’CLOCK
Two representatives of OccupyLongBeach, a spinoff of the social-justice movement that began on Wall Street last month, will be featured guests on Greater Long Beach Radio with Dave Wielenga tonight at 7 p.m. on KBEACH.org, the online radio station at Cal State Long Beach. The program will open with a long-awaited visit from Greggory Moore—yep, [...]
STEAMED: OVERDUE VEGETARIAN EATS SETTLE IN DOWNTOWN LONG BEACH
Although Steamed has been silently serving sensational vegetarian dishes all summer, that was just its getting-comfy period. The heartwarming place with the fresh food and the coffee-shop vibe will threw a big grand-opening party Thursday evening (Aug. 18).
GOOSEFIRE GALLERY BRINGS LONG BEACH ITS FIRST TOUCH OF GLASS
Clinton Roman’s delicate work is famous for his mastery of potion blowing borosilicate glass. It features many archetypal symbols from the world’s myths and religions, including Native American culture, blown from every color of the rainbow.
IS LAKEWOOD STUDENTS’ BILL AN AFFRONT TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT?
Which is worse: Teachers and administrators abdicating their responsibility to use the picketing and protests as teachable moments about the First Amendment, or students and parents with such thin skin, they can’t face issues they find disagreeable or distasteful?
COMMIE GIRL: MANNERLESS CHILDREN WHO STEAL BEER AND WON’T SHARE DRUGS
Here’s the thing, children: If you are at a party, and you are holding, and you do not want to share, you have to hide somewhere while you do your drugs. The gracious way to behave is to pass it cheerfully to the left-hand side. Don’t worry. It will come your way again!
COUNCIL WRESTLES BEFORE ADDING RESTRICTIONS TO MEDPOT ORDINANCE
In a lengthy item marked by multiple motions and divided (and in one case reconsidered) votes, the Long Beach City Council on Tuesday night voted 6-3 (Andrews, Johnson, Gabelich dissenting) to approve amendments to its medical marijuana ordinance. If approved on a second council vote, the amendments will expand allowed hours of operation, require surveillance [...]
DOG GONE, BUT WHAT A WEEKEND FOR DEE AND HER BLUETICK COONHOUND!
“This is the biggest moment in my dog-showing career,” Dee Gunter reflected quietly after her Bluetick Coonhound won Best of Breed at the AKC National Championships. “Fifty years I’ve been waiting for this. I started when I was 10½ and I’m almost 62 years old. Yes, I am.”
VECTOR CONTROL: BRIAN GIMMILLARO’S RISE CAN BE TRACED TO HIS FOLLICLES
Have you ever seen Long Beach State women's volleyball coach Brian Gimmillaro’s hair? Like the Grand Canyon, it changes hues and appearance at different times of the day. Like the waters at Lourdes, it has been known to give help and hope to many. It is magnificent.
SOMETHING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO BUYING CALIFORNIA’S ELECTIONS
After gaining a little perspective---the win by Jerry Brown over Meg Whitman, the loss of Prop 19, the win of local Measure D---I am no longer as freaked out about the Citizens United ruling as I first was. I don't necessarily correlate big campaign spending with winning elections. That does not mean I do not think there is reason for concern.
COMMIE GIRL: MY GRAD-SCHOOL SOCIOLOGY CLASS THINKS I’M RACIST!
It started innocently, with me being surprised to learn that “assimilation” is a racist goal. I moved to insensitive with a remark regarding standard English. Then I got all raw and itchy about whiteness in general, which is held up as something frankly evil. Everybody thinks it’s like that Eddie Murphy "White Like Me" skit.
ALL WRITEY!! A SAMPLING OF YOUR COMMENTS / CRITICISMS / LOVE NOTES / WITTICISMS
“MAYOR’S WIFE USES HER FACEBOOK PAGE TO PUSH LB CITY COUNCIL FOR TOUGHER MEDICAL MARIJUANA ORDINANCE,” Nov. 8 [ By Dave Wielenga ] It’s real easy for someone who has all of their needs addressed to dictate to those who don’t. I wonder when she sleeps on her twenty mattresses if she can still feel [...]
MAYOR’S WIFE USES HER FACEBOOK PAGE TO PUSH LB CITY COUNCIL FOR TOUGHER MEDICAL MARIJUANA ORDINANCE
The Long Beach City Charter doesn’t give her an official voice and she isn’t registered with City Hall as a lobbyist, but Nancy Foster is the wife of Mayor Bob Foster—and on Monday night she leveraged whatever influence comes with that connection to support additional restrictions to Long Beach’s medical marijuana ordinance. Three city council [...]
WANT TO VOTE THE PROPOSITIONS LIKE COMMIE GIRL? HERE’S HOW!
The initiatives that gave California its first and greatest reputation for wackiness back when we enshrined our Voter Anger (or “initiative process”) right there in the state Constitution. And now what are we using it for? Wacky tobacky. That, my friends, is the Circle of Life.
PASSAGE OF PROP. 14 MEANS THE (THIRD) PARTY MAY BE OVER IN CALIFORNIA
Proposition 14, which passed in June, bans all but the top two finishers in the primary election from appearing on the November general election ballot---basically, eliminating Greens, Libertarians, Peace & Freedoms and American Independents. The ostensible goal was to get more moderates elected, but a very real consequence will be giving voters even less choice.
VECTOR CONTROL: SUJA LOWENTHAL—BUDGET CUTS AND … MONKEY BUTLERS?
Oh, there is just something so deliciously twisted, so utterly Marie Antoinettish about Long Beach councilmember Suja Lowenthal discussing cuts in basic city services while in a luxurious palace being served exotic fruits by ... please let it be ... a monkey butler.
DOWNEY PLANNING COMMISSION UNANIMOUSLY OPPOSES MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARIES
The City of Downey moved closer to prohibiting medical marijuana dispensaries from operating in the city when the Planning Commission on Wednesday agreed with city administrators that the benefits of marijuana collectives to residents are “far outweighed” by the violent crime that oftentimes besiege the clinics. The Commission unanimously approved a resolution that formally recommends [...]
DOWNEY PLANNING COMMISSION MAY REQUEST MARIJUANA DISPENSARY BAN
During its meeting this evening, the Downey planning commission will consider asking the City Council to revise the city charter to permanently bar medical marijuana dispensaries from operating in the city. The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall. Citing federal law that still makes it a crime to grow, use or possess marijuana, city [...]
562CITYLIFE.COM SAYS NEW MAGAZINE IS RIPPING OFF ITS NAME, AND LOTS MORE
Amid the still-settling fallout from The District Weekly’s demise in March, an updated, downscaled version of an oldtimey newspaper war may be breaking out in Long Beach—between a newsy/artsy social networking website and a monthly culture-and-entertainment magazine that hasn’t even published its first issue yet. The owners of 562CityLife.com, a three-year-old hub of information and [...]
VECTOR CONTROL: FROM HERE, BIG DRUG BUST MEANS END OF LB BUDGET PROBLEM
Here's the way it goes: we seize the drugs, we sell the drugs back into the drug community, and then we seize the drugs again to sell them again. A perfect machine, as it was when Ronald Reagan first developed the scam in the ‘80s.
VECTOR CONTROL: ROLLING ON A RIVER, TOWARD EVER-TOUGHER TIMES
Some people view the Los Angeles River as a kind an oxymoron---you know, like “Compassionate Conservative.” But its entire 51 miles are navigable, if treacherous, and let's pause to remember those vessels that didn't make it.
‘UP IN SMOKE” AT ART THEATRE TONIGHT: HELP DISTRICT WEEKLY’S UNPAID FREELANCERS WITH A HAZY TRIP DOWN MEMORY LAME
How did 420—otherwise translated as April 20 or 4/20…or more to the point, today—become known internationally as the day to celebrate the healing/relaxing/inspiring/cotton-mouthing/squinty-eying/Snoop-Dogging characteristics of cannabis? Why do we so anxiously await Fatty Tuesday? Contrary to many myths, 420 has nothing to do with police code for pot-smoking, the number of active chemicals in marijuana, Hitler’s [...]
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THEATER REVIEW: GOOFY-DOES-IT AT FOUND THEATER’S HOPEFUL, DOPEFUL SATIRE OF MEDPOT–AND TELETHONS
The Found Theatre does goofy. If you go there, you’re probably looking for a simple, good time. When the production is a satire, it’s going to be soft-hearted and silly. Hope Dope Is on the Way:The Medical Marijuana Telethon is a sort of a double-satire—part on the medical marijuana movement, part on telethons. Each is an [...]
ALL WRITEY!! A SAMPLING OF YOUR COMMENTS/CRITICISMS/LOVE NOTES/WITTICISMS
A selection of snippets and full-on blasts from the feedback received from readers this week: MARCH 30, “MARCHESE ACCUSED OF TRYING TO GET NON-PROFIT WETLAND GROUP’S MAILING LIST FOR HIS CITY COUNCIL CAMPAIGN” The timing of Don May’s well-orchestrated letter, and the past and current actions of the LCWLT Board, should cause people to wonder [...]
OWNER OF FORMER COMPTON POT SHOP GETS 6 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON
A man who ran half a dozen medical marijuana dispensaries in the greater Los Angeles area, including one in Compton, has been sentenced to six years in federal prison. In a March 22 sentencing, U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson said that Virgil Edward Grant III used his licensed clinics to earn a profit selling [...]
QUESTION IS, WHY IS MIKE HEDGES RUNNING FOR LONG BEACH CITY COUNCIL?
Mike Hedges had three days to prepare for the question he knew was coming at Monday night’s Long Beach Press Club debate between the candidates for the city council’s 5th District seat. But when reporter Darcy Richardson of the Grunion Gazette asked Hedges about discrepancies in his campaign financing that have attracted the attention of [...]
