Melissa Evans
Managing Editor at Long Beach Post
Melissa Evans is the CEO of the Long Beach Post and LB Business Journal, and a journalism lecturer at Cal State Long Beach. Contact me: [email protected]
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4 days ago |
lbpost.com | Melissa Evans
Doing Good in the LBC is an occasional newsletter where we share about giving back in our city. Subscribe at lbpost.com/newsletters. Close to 1,000 people gathered in the grand ballroom at the Long Beach Convention Center on Friday as part of the YMCA’s nearly six-decade tradition of bringing politicians, businesses, nonprofits and others together on Good Friday. It’s one of the who’s-who events in Long Beach, with prayer and a praise band.
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1 week ago |
lbpost.com | Melissa Evans
Long Beach and a large swath of Southern California felt shaking shortly after 10 a.m. Monday when a significant 5.2 earthquake hit near San Diego. The U.S. Geological Survey initially reported the earthquake as a 6.0, but downgraded it to 5.2 shortly after it struck at 10:08 a.m. A ShakeAlert notice was sent to cell phones throughout much of Southern California. The earthquake was centered in the city of Julian, just east of San Diego.
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2 weeks ago |
lbpost.com | Melissa Evans
Doing Good in the LBC is an occasional newsletter where we’ll share about local residents doing good for Long Beach. Sign up for it at lbpost.com/newsletters. Every year I used to order our columnist, Tim Grobaty, to write something about locals leaving town during Grand Prix weekend. Now that he’s retired — partly; he still writes on Wednesdays — he’s earned the right to ignore me with impunity.
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3 weeks ago |
lbbusinessjournal.com | Melissa Evans
Long Beach, among the largest trade hubs in the world, is again finding itself at the center of global economic upheaval as the Trump Administration this week announced steep new tariffs on most imports to the United States. In 2018, during Trump’s first term, the Administration imposed tariffs on various products from China, the largest customer of the Port of Long Beach.
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4 weeks ago |
lbbusinessjournal.com | Melissa Evans
A group of Downtown business leaders have been working for over a year to bring the community together and breathe new creative life into the urban center of the Long Beach, which has struggled to fill storefronts and draw visitors.
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I love what @kdoctor said about this incredible recognition: It was a huge win for community journalism. Yes indeed! And so proud of @FernandoAHaro and his work in contributing to this. https://t.co/gTpg523wuO
Please watch this beautiful video by @Artscphoto about one of last living masters of Cambodian ceramic art, and the local woman who is hoping to keep the art alive: https://t.co/w8NKtOAdt0
RT @jeremiahdobruck: Yep, that was a tiny little baby earthquake that just hit Long Beach. https://t.co/LnBj5IVrE3