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Oct 9, 2024 | 
lbwatchdog.com | Jason Ruiz |Fernando Haro |Jake Gotta |Alicia Robinson
Long Beach Utilities officials are investigating what caused a water main to release a torrent near Orange Avenue and East Wardlow Road late Wednesday morning, creating a muddy mess and leaving some homes and businesses with no water. A water main near the intersection broke, affecting water pressure in the California Heights, Los Cerritos and Bixby Knolls neighborhoods, utilities spokesperson Joy Conteras said, and it may take some time to get service back to normal.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
lbwatchdog.com | Fernando Haro |Jake Gotta |Maya-Claire Glenn
St. Mary Medical Center is seeking the public's help to identify a man who was brought into the hospital at 6:32 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 7. The man was initially found on the floor of the Metro train at the First Street platform, a spokesperson from the hospital said Thursday. Sign in to continue reading. Enter your email address to sign in or create your free account. — or sign in with —
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
lbwatchdog.com | Jackie Rae |Jason Ruiz |Kate Karp |Fernando Haro |Jake Gotta
Housing crisis β 4 min read Iβve written extensively about the housing crisis here in Long Beach and in California at large. I wrote about how Long Beach needs tens of thousands of new homes to address our shortage. I wrote about how San Diego and other cities are already doing exactly that. And then I talked about how the way to get there isnβt with more regulation, itβs by removing the red tape around housing construction.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
lbwatchdog.com | Kate Karp |Caitlin Antonios |Jake Gotta |Jason Ruiz
A big part of my job is attending public meetings. That's meant long nights in city hall, churches (sometimes in their basements), park community buildings and even tents set up in the parking lots of parks to accommodate the overflow crowds who wanted to keep the city’s zoning closer to 1950 than 2018, when the controversial land use element update was adopted. Sign in to continue reading. Enter your email address to sign in or create your free account. — or sign in with —
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Jul 26, 2024 | lbwatchdog.com | Kate Karp |Caitlin Antonios |Jake Gotta |Jason Ruiz
A big part of my job is attending public meetings. That's meant long nights in city hall, churches (sometimes in their basements), park community buildings and even tents set up in the parking lots of parks to accommodate the overflow crowds who wanted to keep the city’s zoning closer to 1950 than 2018, when the controversial land use element update was adopted. Sign in to continue reading. Enter your email address to sign in or create your free account. — or sign in with —
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
lbwatchdog.com | Kate Karp |Caitlin Antonios |Jake Gotta |Jason Ruiz
homelessness — 4 min read Sign in to continue reading. Enter your email address to sign in or create your free account. — or sign in with — Read more Check your email! To finish signing in, click the confirmation link in your inbox. × Subscribe today! Support the Long Beach Watchdog and get cool features like dark mode, the ability to comment and an ad-free reading experience.
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Jul 25, 2024 | lbwatchdog.com | Kate Karp |Caitlin Antonios |Jake Gotta |Jason Ruiz
homelessness — 4 min read Sign in to continue reading. Enter your email address to sign in or create your free account. — or sign in with — Read more Check your email! To finish signing in, click the confirmation link in your inbox. × Subscribe today! Support the Long Beach Watchdog and get cool features like dark mode, the ability to comment and an ad-free reading experience.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
lbwatchdog.com | Kat Schuster |Jake Gotta |Fernando Haro |Anthony Pignataro
Local Democratic officials thanked President Joe Biden for his decades of service following his announcement Sunday to not seek reelection in November. βI believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term,β Biden said in a letter posted on his X (formerly Twitter) account Sunday. He then endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in a later tweet. Sign in to continue reading.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
lbwatchdog.com | Fernando Haro |Caitlin Antonios |Jake Gotta |Jason Ruiz
The Long Beach City Council could soon be asked to overhaul the city’s law governing lobbying activities and it could see city officials be required to maintain public calendars to show who they meet with and substantially lower the bar for when activity is considered lobbying. The Long Beach Ethics Commission unveiled a draft of recommendations Wednesday that it plans to forward to the City Council to consider, something the commission could vote on as soon as August.
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Jul 10, 2024 | lbwatchdog.com | Fernando Haro |Caitlin Antonios |Jake Gotta |Jason Ruiz
The Long Beach City Council could soon be asked to overhaul the city’s law governing lobbying activities and it could see city officials be required to maintain public calendars to show who they meet with and substantially lower the bar for when activity is considered lobbying. The Long Beach Ethics Commission unveiled a draft of recommendations Wednesday that it plans to forward to the City Council to consider, something the commission could vote on as soon as August.
