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New / In Depth / Perspective: Coastal Enviro Group Sues To Stop John Morris'
July 3 "Big Bang" Fireworks, Alleges Toxic Fallout Into Alamitos Bay And Ocean,
Says He Needs Permit But Acknowledges Gov't Bodies Failed To Pursue Issues
Before It Filed Suit



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Viewpoint by Doug Krikorian, Special to LBREPORT.com
New: Squib From Berlin: I Always Will Have A Passion For Berlin, Despite My Now
Being Officially Affiliated With The EU And Being Tracked By An APP Called Luca
Because Of My Presence In The Great City Mr. Krikorian, an award winning
journalist and author of two books, earned multiple awards in his 22 years of
writing for the Long Beach Press-Telegram and 22 years for the Los Angeles
Herald Examiner. He is happily retired.


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New: Man Is Shot/Wounded 2600 block Lakewood Blvd At Willow (CD 4/Supernaw); PD
Investigates As Gang-Related

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New: LB Has Two More Shootings: 1200 block Orizaba + 600 block E. 19th St.

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Sic Transit: Former Vice Mayor/CD9 Councilman Val Lerch Passes Away


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New / Perspective: Amnesia File: How LB's CD6 Could Have Had A Major Community
Center w/ Athletic Amenities Incl. Pools -- But Only Got A Running Track +
Soccer Fields (Now Named For Dee Andrews)



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FURTHER UPDATE: Redistricting Comm'n Votes 13-0 To Approve THIS Final Election
District Map That Will Impact LB Elections For Next Ten Years. City Atty Says
New Council Districts Take Effect Immediately But Subject To A 30 Day Legal
Challenge Period

Commissioners refused to consider changes proposed by coalition of Latino groups
that submitted an attorney-signed letter alleging the map would violate the
federal Voting Rights Act. LBREPORT.com learns former CD5 Councilwoman Schipske
says she's informed there may be residents who will take legal action
challenging reconfigured CD5. The new election district map: Chops CD 5 longtime
ELB district and attaches it to Cal Hts/part of Bixby Knolls. CD 5 incumbent
Mungo says she's considering moving to Cal Hts (where she says she owns a home)
to seek reelection in 2022. Other CD 5 candidates may surface in newly
configured district. Stretches CD 4 (Supernaw) northward taking El Dorado Park
and nearby neighborhoods Unites Wrigley and Los Cerritos but splits part of
Bixby Knolls Gives downtown interests two Council votes (CD 1 for western Port,
CD 2 for entertainment district + QM) but puts CD1 incumbent Zendejas in same
district as incumbent CD2 Allen. If Allen runs in CD1 in 2022 cycle, she would
face Zendejas and challenger Lee Charley, likely a high money race that would
proceed to a runoff between top two initial finishers. Splits Bluff Park
angering neighborhoods along CD 2/CD 3

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Subsequent development above: Here's What City Hall Redistricting Comm'n Could
Do Tonight That Could Impact LB Elections For Next Ten Years

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Editorial: Queen Mary For Adults: What Did City Hall Know And When Did It Know
It?

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New: LBCC Trustee Board Bitterness Revealed In Superior Court Ruling In Favor Of
Trustee Sunny Zia; LBCC Partially Dropped Its "Investigation" Suit Against Her
But Still Sought Atty Fees Alleging She'd Failed To Recuse Herself From Certain
Closed Sessions; Court Finds Zia Already Did So And LBCC's Action Against Her
Was Legally Unnecessary

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New: LBUSD Mgm't "Pauses" Its Minimal COVID Student Testing

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New: Queen Mary Fallout: City Auditor Blames Poorly Written City Lease, Poor
City Mgm't Oversight And Poor Paperwork By Ship's Lessee/Operator/Subcontractors
For Questionable City Payments; Doesn't Mention Mayor Garcia Praising
Transaction Or Council Vote (Price Dissenting) That Approved Enabling Lease

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CD5 Incumbent Mungo Signals She May Move Into Cal Hts In Redrawn CD5 To Seek
Third Council Term

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CalTech's Board of Trustees Voted To Remove Nobel Prize Winning Physicist Robert
Millikan's Name From Its Campus Buildings, Assets and Honors Citing His Role In
20th Century Eugenics Movement. Should LBUSD's Board of Education Take Similar
Or Other Actions Re ELB's Millikan High?

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ELB LCD Officer Involved Shooting Stemmed From Suspect Allegedly Displaying
Firearm...That Turned Out To Be This BB Gun



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Redistricting Comm'n Advances These Two Maps (Clearer Graphics + Data Details)
To Likely Nov. 18 Adoption, If Approved Will Affect LB Elections For Next Ten
Years CD 5 chopped (incumbent Mungo and challengers Schipske and Dobson out),
longtime ELB district now attached to Cal Hts/part of Bixby Knolls CD 4
stretched northward taking El Dorado Park and nearby neighborhoods Wrigley
united while Bixby Knolls split Controversy over Bluff Heights/Bluff
Park/Carroll Park split between CD 2/CD 3 NW NLB neighborhoods split from CD 9





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Long Beach Had Two Shootings Within Roughly 12 Hours, 8th/Chestnut (Nov. 11, CD
1/Zendejas) And Anaheim/Alamitos (CD 6/Saro); Police Find Casings And Evidence
of Shootings But No Victim(s) Hit

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Special event coverage is made possible by John Osborn, II (US Army ret.)

On-Demand: Enjoy "Virtual" LB Veterans Day Parade (2018 Archival Video Coverage)

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Subsequent development above Last Minute Redistricting Map Proposed By Political
Interests Would Cut Add'l Eastside Area Out Of CD 5, Remove Eastside Voice
Leader Corliss From CD 5 (Along With Previously Removed CD 5 Incumbent Mungo and
Challengers Schipske and Dobson), Shifts Add'l Eastside Populated Area Into CD 4

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Man Is Shot/Wounded 5000 block Garford St. (Apt. Area East of Traffic Circle CD
4/Supernaw)

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Podcast / New / Opinion: Don't Blame John Molina For Milking Taxpayers On
Community Hospital

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Four Shootings Within Roughly Six Hours (Nov 6-7) Including Two Victims Hit Area
PCH/Pacific

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Man Is Shot/Wounded Area 7th St./Chestnut (CD 1/Zendejas)



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City Hall Scrambles To Quash Public Discussion of Community Hospital Operator's
Plan To Close Its ER And Shift Away From Acute Medical Services To Promoting
"Mental and Physical Health" With "Behavioral Health And Wellness Services" And
Other "Medical and Social Programs"

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Man Is Shot/Wounded While He Says He Was Walking In Area of South St./Myrtle Ave
(CD 8/CD 9 border)

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With Possible Tweaks And Diminishing Alternatives, Redistricting Comm'n Chops CD
5 to Reunite Wrigley, Splits Los Cerritos/Bixby Knolls, Attaches Cal Hts To CD
5, Puts El Dorado Park And Adjacent Neighborhoods In CD 4
Action cuts incumbent Mungo and challenger Schipske out of 2022 election unless
they move or Comm'n tweaks map or adopts alternative
Gives CD 1 incumbent Zendejas lucrative downtown entertainment area and Port (as
she seeks 2022 re-election)

Nov. 3 draft advanced map

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Man is Shot/Wounded 5400 block Cherry Ave. (CD 8/Austin)

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Man Is Shot/Wounded Along Artesia Blvd. Corridor (Nov. 1), And On Nov 2 Gunfire
Documented Just North of 91 Fwy (CD 9/Richardson)

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LA County Dept. of Public Health Advises These Thanksgiving COVID Precautions

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City Will Vax Your Kids Ages 5-11 At These Sites

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LA County Dept. of Public Health Offers Framework For Lifting Some Masking
Req'ts; Will LB Follow?

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Should LB Create City Areas For Allowed Encampments As Sac'to Offers Cities Sums
To Use Encampments To Dispense Homeless Services?

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Re Tuesday's City Hall "Holiday"; LB Taxpayer Accountability Project (Continuing
Series) / News In Depth
City Council Didn't Take Separate Public Vote On Creating New Paid City Employee
"Election Day" Holiday (With No Scheduled LB Nov. 2021 Election); They Slipped
It Into New Union Contracts With Politically Influential City Employee Unions
And Also Gave It To Non-Union City Mgm't Staff
No Public Discussion Of Add'l Taxpayer Costs; Councilmembers Effectively Gave
Themselves Add'l Day Off With No Reduction In Their Pay Updated COVID 19
Dashboard


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Nov. 4 Updated Health Order

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Sept. 17 Updated Health Order

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Sept. 9 Updated Quarantine Order

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New: Nov. 7, 2021: Don't Blame John Molina For Milking Taxpayers On Community
Hospital

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June 27: Want More Shootings? Here's How To Keep Them Going


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June 22: Did LB's Homeless Services Bureaucrats, Consuming Millions In Taxpayer
Dollars, Ever Contact Man Pushing His Belongings Around In Shopping Cart?


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June 12: THIS Is What Democracy Sounds Like


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June 9: No Check, No Balance; Inept Repubs Enable One Party Council In One Party
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Long Beach's Future In Space:
A Continuing Series



Latest Long Beach Space Related News

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LB HQ'd Rocket Lab Successfully Launches Satellite for U.S. Space Force

Photo courtesy Rocket Lab

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Relativity Space, LB-Based Firm Using 3D-Metalic Printers To Build Rockets, Will
Take Over Massive Former C-17 Long Beach Plant
Image via Relativity Space

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Virgin Orbit Uses Its Launcher One Rocket (Mounted Under A Wing Of Its Cosmic
Girl Jet) To Put Seven Satellites Into Orbit

Jan. 2021 image via Virgin Orbit

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Long Beach HQ'd Rocket Lab Gets Contract To Design Two Spacecraft For Scientific
Mission To Mars

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Vowing To Change ("Disrupt") Current Space Industry Assumptions, Long Beach
Based Relativity Space Announces Plan To Build "Terran R" Fully Reusable
Entirely 3D PRINTED Launch Vehicle 20 Times Larger Than Its Previous Rockets;
Simultaneously Announces Boosts In Funding And Hiring



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June 5: Another Fully Booked ZERO G Flight Flies From LB Airport; Company Plans
Three From LGB In Feb. 2022; We Explain EXACTLY What It Felt Like on Oct. 2020
Flight; Pix Show Publisher Began As A Clumsy "Spaz In Space" But Learned To Work
Around Weightlessness

LBREPORT.com publisher Bill Pearl (horizontal on ceiling) aboard Oct. 2020 LGB
ZERO G flight.

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Update: LB HQ'd Rocket Lab (Again) Successfully Retrieves Rocket's First Stage
Using Parachute Slowed Spashdown; Computer May Have Shut Down Second Stage,
Causing Lost Mission

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Port of LB Makes Deal With Elon Musk's Space-X To Use Part Of Port's Pier T To
Dock Vessels And Offload Equipment As Part Of Its West Coast Rocket Recovery
Operations

Portion of map accompanying Harbor Comm'n agenda item.

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Long Beach-based Virgin Orbit Plans June Launch Of Satellites For US Dept. of
Defense Space Test Pgm, Royal Netherlands Air Force And Poland Based Firm

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For previous coverage and overview of LB space related firms, click here

Previous Viewpoints By Doug Krikorian

Doug Krikorian Squib from Copenhagen: The Danes Have Tossed The Masks In The
Baltic Sea

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Doug Krikorian Squib From Europe: Long Beach Health Department Bigwigs Kelly
Colopy & Dr. Anissa Davis Would Be Horrified By Maskless Krakow!

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Reflections and Revelations

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Krikorian Notes: From The Tireless Todd Allen Bringing A Long Vacated Naples
Building Back To Life To The Tireless LB City Employees Getting A ''Holiday''
Day Off Footed By The LB Taxpayers To Everyone Rooting For Dusty Baker And
Against His Astros To One Of Long Beach Good Guys Ronald Eomurian To The
$190,000 Windfall Of Phil Trani's Charity Golf Event To The Raucous Insanity Of
SoFi Stadium To My Long Delayed Trip Across The Pond

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The Irrepressible Don Rodriguez Is Walking 50 miles This Weekend In Still
Another Fund-Raising Coup In A Ceaseless 18-Year Stream---More Than $50
Million!--For His Long Beach Boys & Girls Clubs That Are Thriving And That Soon
Even Will Have A Phil Trani Gym On One Of Its Properties In Honor Of One Of Its
Many Benefactors

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Krikorian Notes: From Draconian Covid-19 Vaccination Mandates Violating
Constitutional Freedoms Of Those Deciding Not To Take It To The Passing Of The
Patriarch Of The Celebrated DiMarzo Clan Don DiMarzo To Big Mike O'Toole's
Historic 24-Hour Saloon Trifecta To The Passing Of The Pine Ave. Shoe Shine
Fixture James Brown To The Dodgers Destined To Ruin My Beloved Giants' Fairytale
Season To Jim Michaelian And The Long Beach Health Department Doing Stellar Work
At The Acura Grand Prix Of LB

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A Tranquil Early Morning Walk Reminds Me Once Again What An Extraordinary City
Long Beach Is Despite The Bureaucratic Ignoramuses Governing It

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From Acura Grand Prix Of Long Beach's Jim Michaelian Oozing Optimism For His
Upcoming Event To Mayor Robert Garcia Hoping President Biden Saves Him From That
Embarrassing Harry S. Truman Post To Ousted USC Football Coach Clay Helton
Proving Nice Guys Don't Finish Last For A Job Poorly Done In Financial Buyouts
($10 Million!) To LB's Connoisseur Of Lost Causes Ben Goldberg Turning To
Triples To Survive Larry Elder's Beatdown

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Ben Goldberg: Connoisseur Of Lost Causes With The Latest Being Campaigning For
Larry Elder To Replace Gavin Newsom As The New California Governor

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What A Life For Angelo Marciuliano Of Angelo's Italian Deli Fame: From Growing
Up Humbly In The Southern Italy Region of Basilicata To Serving Anthony Quinn As
A Waiter At The Legendary Savoy Hotel In London To Being A Private Chef For
Generals And Other Military Brass When He Was In The Italian Army To Creating
The Famous Italian Torpedo Sandwhich

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Yes, Honestly, There Are Actually A Couple Of Positives To Emerge From The
Covid-19 Pandemic In Long Beach---An Outdoors, Champs-Elysee-Like Dining
Experience Throughout The City For Restaurant Patrons Because Of The Popular
Parklets And An Upscale Covid-19 Belmont Shore Testing Place Called
SAMEDAYHEALTH That Is A Thriving Operation In The Midst Of Second Street's Spate
Of Business Exoduses

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Krikorian Notes: From The Long Beach Health Department And Its Braintrust, Kelly
Colopy And Dr. Anissa Davis, Going A Step Further Than Their LA County Shot
Callers To The Notorious Ballot Harvesting Gimmick Certain To Rescue Gavin
Newsom To The Memorable Alamitos Bay Weekend Water Polo Festivities To The
Naples Wedding Party Bash For Ravishing Rick Paap And Deena Deardurff-Schmidt

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Krikorian Notes: From Suzie Price Snubbing Many Of Her Third District
Constituents To Vote Against Throwing Gavin Newsom Out Of Office To The LBUSD
Depriving Kids This Summer From Using Its Schools Vacant Playgrounds To Guinness
Book Of World Records Candidate Tommy O'Toole Attending San Diego State To
Dodger Zealot Big Ben Goldberg Coming Clean About His Team's Tainted 2020 World
Championship (60 Regular Season Games!) To Mystery Mayoral Candidate Greg
Magnuson (Who In Tarnation Is He?)

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Did Long Beach City Manager Tom Modica Make The Right Call In Shutting Down the
Long Beach Sprint Nationals After A Tragic Boating Accident?

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Long Beach Leaders Robert Garcia, Tom Modica, Mary Zendejas, Cindy Allen, Suzie
Price, Daryl Supernaw, Stacy Mungo, Suely Saro, Al Austin, Rex Richardson And
Roberto Uranga: These People Have No Shame Or Guilt For The Role They've
Collectively Played In Daily Shootings And Soaring Crime Rates

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Of Course, That Darling Lady Out Of Smith College & Duke University, Long Beach
Health Czar Kelly Colopy, Goes Right Along With The Idiotic L.A. County Indoor
Mask-Wearing Edict Even Though She Could Have Spared LB Such Anguish

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Krikorian Notes: From Ol' Blood And Guts Robert Garcia To Give Give `Em Hell
Harry Truman To The Daily One Mile Alamitos Bay Swim Of Dr. Mark Hoffer, 86, To
The Daily 15-Mile, Five-Hour Walk Of Earth Man Jeff Yount To Connor McGregor's
Latest Con Job To Former Long Beach State and NFL player Russ Bollinger Relating
Hilarious Bill Belichick Tale To The Belmont Shore Bridge Eyesore

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A Thrilling Evening In Long Beach When The Skies Above Alamitos Bay Became A
Dazzling Palette Of Exploding Rockets In Front Of 30,000 Witnesses Who Savored
What Will Become Part Of The City’s Sacred Lore

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Krikorian Notes: From Ann Cantrell Voicing Disapproval Of Long Beach's Most
Popular Summer Event---The Big Bang On The Bay---To John Morris Taking Strong
Exception To Ms. Cantrell's Stance To Bad Stu Ledsam's TWO Life-Saving Rescues
To Bill (Bozo) Caplan's Zany Antics To The Phoenix Suns' Blessed Fortune To LB's
Scary Rising Crime Rate To Those Two Laughable City Hall Figures Tom Modica And
Robert Garcia

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The Many Memorable Characters I've Befriended Across The Decades, Including The
Appropriately Named Preposterous One In Long Beach Known Far And Wide As Bad Stu
Ledsam

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Krikorian Notes: From No-Bail Insanity To Government Handout Insanity To City
Auditor Laura Doud's Exhaustive Investigation Of The Latest Queen Mary
Bankruptcy Suitor Urban Commons To K-5 Kids Still Having To Wear Masks And
Having Their Temperatures Taken To Novak DJokovic Being The GOAT Of Tennis


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Krikorian Notes: From Long Beach East Division Commander Chad Ellis And Naples
Crime Buster Katie Rowe Teaming Up At Colonnade Park Gathering To Discuss Canal
Congestion And Patio Thievery To My Earning a Five-Cent Film Residual To Earth
Man Walking 14,650 Miles To The Belmont Shore Bridge Still Not Fixed To The
Yokel LB Politicians Still Drooling Over The Queen Mary To Former LBSU Pitching
Star Kevin Lamp Praising The Late John Gonsalves

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With Encouragement From Long Beach's Very Own Universal Man, Rick Bryson, Wilson
High-LB State Grad Torey Edwards Is On The Threshold Of Qualifying For The U.S.
Open, Not Impossible For The Only Amateur Golfer In History To Shoot Two Rounds
Of 58

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For additional previous Krikorian columns, click here


Shooting Crime Scenes Jan 1, 2021 Forward
For June 1-Dec 31, 2020, click here.
Red = Homicides. Blue = Persons hit. Yellow = Casings found or vehicle or bldg
hit


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Special Report / In Depth / Amnesia File: Long Beach Had But No Longer Has An
LBPD Field Anti-Gang Unit. How'd That Happen?

MORE News
On LBReport.com

Neighbor Dispute Over Parking -- 100 block Bennett in Belmont Shore -- Becomes
Three-Person Stabbing w/ Small Knife, Superficial Wounds

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Suspect Is Arrested; Man Drives Vehicle Into Crowd, Six Taken To Hospitals, 1300
block Orange; Police Say It Began As Domestic Violence b/w Man And Woman, Driver
Flees

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Man Is Shot/Wounded, 2 a.m. Hour Area 3rd St/The Promenade

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LBPD Officer Responds To Audible WLB Neighborhood Gunshots, Encounters Man Who
Points This Paintball Pistol At Officer; Officer Involved Shooting Follows;
Suspect Later Says He Was Suicidal

LBPD released image

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Two Persons Shot/Wounded 500 Block E. PCH (Near Linden/Atlantic)

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Drive-By Shooting 1100 block E. 59th St (CD 9/Richardson, NE of Obama Library)
Misses Hitting Woman, PD Finds Evidence Including Strike Marks Indicating
Shooting Occurred

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DA Charges Former School Safety Officer With Second Degree Murder. What's That?

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Washington Middle School Neighborhood Homicide: Man Is Shot To Death In 200
block W. 15th St. (CD 1/Zendejas)

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Signal Hill PD Belatedly Confirms Mass Thefts By Bicyclists @ Food For Less

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Guest Op-Ed Crime Prevention in Long Beach -- A Proactive Approach
by Jerry Shultz
South of Conant Neighborhood Watch *
* Mr. Shultz is a retired LA County Deputy Sheriff and former CD 9 Councilman
(1994-2002). He created and operates the South of Conant Neighborhood Watch

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NLB Homicide: Man Is Shot To Death, 6200 block Downey Ave. (CD 9/Richardson
bordering Lakewood)

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LB Taxpayer Accountability Project (Continuing Series) / News in Depth: State
Lands Commission Report Shows Total $15+ Million Will Be Drained From State
Tidelands For Four Long Beach Shoreline Concession Stands, Including $9+ Million
At Alamitos Beach Alone.
Long Beach City Council Sought The State Tidelands Money; Lt Governor, State
Controller + Governor Appointee OK'd It.

Alamitos Beach concession stand. Image source: March 5, 2019 city staff
agendized report

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Starting Sunday Oct 24, You'll Have To Insert Area Code "562" (Mobile Calls) And
"1-562" For All Landline/Wireline Local Calls And You May Have To Make Other
Digital Connecting Changes

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Midnight Hour Drive-By Type Gunfire 200 block of Golden Shore

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NW NLB Gunfire Into Inhabited Dwelling, Orcutt/69th St.

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DA Charges Former School Safety Officer With Second Degree Murder. What's That?

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Woman Robbed At Gunpoint At Alamitos Beach

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LBCC Board of Trustees Votes 5-0 To Require Proof of COVID Vax For Staff and
Students

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Editorial: We Believe The City of Long Beach Is Violating Newly Enacted State
Law By Preventing You From Speaking On City Council Agenda Items Remotely By
Telephone Or Computer. Here's How To Fix That.

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Granddaughter's Go Fund Me Page For Former Vice Mayor/CD 9 Councilman Val Lerch
Raises Sums For His In-Home Care


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David Pearl (LBCC Kinesiology Major) Joins His Dad, LBREPORT.com Publisher Bill
Pearl (Battling Cancer) For Wild Yet Ethereal Experience On Zero G Weightless
Flight



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Midnight Hour DTLB Drive-By Shooting, 500 block E. 1st St. (CD 2/Allen)

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North Long Beach (CD 9/Richardson) Had Two Shootings In Area Of Artesia Corridor
On Saturday Oct 16, Latest One Was a Homicide

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City Atty Parkin To Retire, Ass't City Attorney Dawn McIntosh Hires Political
Consultant And Is Endorsed By Parkin, Mayor Garcia, former Mayor Foster, Council
Incumbents Price And Allen And Other City Hall Figures

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Follow-Up: City Quietly Attempts To Avoid Allowing Public's Right Under Newly
Enacted AB 361 To Speak At Council Meetings Via Teleconference (Remotely By
Computer Or Phone)

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Council Votes To Invoke AB 361 That Allows Public To Speak At Council Meetings
via Computer/Phone

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Subsequent development above LBCC Board of Trustees To Vote Oct 13 On Whether To
Require Proof of COVID Vax For Staff and Students

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Outpouring Of Prayers & Support As Former Vice Mayor/CD 9 Councilman Val Lerch
Battles Returned Cancer


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Man Is Shot/ Wounded At MLK Park (CD 6/Saro) (1950 Lemon Ave.)

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Man Is Shot/Wounded PCH/Newport (One Block East of Redondo, CD4/Supernaw)

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Subsequent development above LB Health Officer Urges Protecting Public By
Allowing Remote (Teleconferenced) Council Meeting With Public Testimony By
Telephone/Computer); Gov Newsom Vetoed AB 339 That Would Have Required Allowing
Public Remote Council Testimony With Fewer Limits On Public; Instead He Signed
AB 361 Letting Council Decide Whether To Allow Meetings With Fewer Limits On
Public Or Continue In-Person Meetings With Current Limits On Public

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LA County Public Health Says It's Ruled Out A Point Source Or Permitted Business
As Source of Carson Area Stench And Found "Very Low Levels" Of Hydrogen Sulfide
East of Dominguez Channel
AND
UPDATE: Carson Mayor tells LBREPORT.com hydrogen sulfide pipeline(s) RULED OUT
as cause of Dominguez Channel stench.

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LB School Board Votes To Terminate Employment Of School Safety Officer Involved
In Sept. 27 Spring/Palo Verde (Now Fatal) Shooting, Alleges Violation Of
District's Use of Force Policy

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Drive-By Shooting Area South/Linden (a block south/a block west of Michelle
Obama Library, border CD 8/9)

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Pasadena City Council, No Longer Willing To Accept Increased Shootings, Votes To
Deploy ShotSpotter Gunfire Location System (First LA County City To Do So). Long
Beach -- Amid Ongoing Shooting Surge -- Is Overdue
Amnesia File: In 2011, Then-LB Councilman/Vice Mayor Robert Garcia Proposed --
And Council Approved -- Funding ShotSpotter But LBPD Mgm't Refused Deployment
And Favored Spending Money For Police Overtime; In 2012, Garcia Reversed
Himself, Sided With Mgm't And Moved To Defund ShotSpotter

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Cong. Lowenthal Calls For Phasing Out All Existing Offshore Oil Drilling
Immediately And Banning Future Offshore Production In Fed'l Waters Along CA's
Coasts In Wake Of Huntington Beach Oil Leak/Spill

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Mayor Garcia & Councilwoman Mungo Open El Dorado Park Artificial Turf Field
Without Mentioning Its Artificial Turf Or Its $3.1 Mil Council Budgeted Cost;
Former CD5 Councilwoman Schipske (Now 2022 Council Candidate) Joins Grassroots
Taxpayers In Opposition, Homemade Signs Say "Mungo Must Go"; Public Works Dir.
Says Bids Received Were Lower Than Budgeted Amount, Producing $2.7 Mil Full Cost



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Woman Is Shot/Wounded, Multiple Vehicles Struck By Gunfire, 2000 block Poppy St
(CD 9/Richardson)

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Man Is Shot To Death, Dies In Roadway 14th St/Olive (CD 6/Saro)

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LBUSD School Safety Officer Who Fired At Fleeing Auto (Gravely Wounding A
Passenger) Was Hired Less Than A Year Ago

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UPDATED: Woman Is Shot/Robbed Near ELB Traffic Circle (PCH/Ximeno, CD4/Supernaw)

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Oct. 2, 10:00 a.m.: Pushback Expected As Councilwoman Mungo Unveils $3+ Million
El Dorado Park Artificial Turf Soccer Field; Former Councilwoman Schipske +
Neighborhood Groups Plan In Person Protest

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He "Should Be In Jail Right Now" Says Lawyer For Mother Whose Daughter Was
Struck In Head By Shots Fired By LBUSD School Safety Officer At Allegedly
Fleeing Car With Daughter As Passenger, Calls On DA Gascón To Prosecute And
Urges Hospital NOT To End Life Support But Keep Her Alive If Any Chance Of
Recovery

Att'y Luis Carrillo at Sept. 29 candlelight vigil. Screen save from Jerlene
Tatum livestream

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Subseuent update above LBPD Says Woman Shot/Critically Wounded At Palo
Verde/Spring By LBUSD-Employed School Safety Officer Is 18, Was In Physical
Altercation With 15 Year Old Girl; Detectives Believe They Were Known To Each
Other, Motive Under Investigation
PD Says shooting occurred when female suspect plus a male adult And male
juvenile (the males' participation level under investigation) tried to flee in a
4-door gray sedan

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Editorials / Op-Eds /Perspectives

Guest Op-Ed: Say Goodbye to the 5th District If You Live in the Ranchos, Plaza,
Eldorado Park Estates, Imperial Estates, El Dorado Park South: GerrieMandering
at Its Finest
By Gerrie Schipske *
* Ms. Schipske, RND/JD, was CD5's Councilmember 2006-2014

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Editorial: Twelve Years Gone, Remembering Melody Ross



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Action Editorial: Tell Council To Restore Public's Right To Speak At Council
Meetings By Telephone/Computer

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Editorial: Here's What City Hall Offers Taxpayers In Response To Seemingly
Homeless Man, Possibly With Drug Items, Along 2nd St/Glendora Ave.

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Editorial: LB Media as Sheep....and the Silence of the Lambs

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Save This Page. It Shows Willingness Of Long Beach Mayor Garcia To Put Political
Sycophancy Above Real Lives Lost And Grim Future For Others

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Biden Admin Blocked Weeks Of Independent Press Access To Now-Closing Long Beach
Convention Ctr. Migrant Minor Facility And Mayor Garcia's Tweets Helped
Legitimize It

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Editorial: End Double Standard Applied To Homeless Vagrants/Transients Who
Refuse COVID Vax

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Editorial: Want More Shootings? Here's How To Keep Them Going

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See Supporters of State Senator Gonzalez Who Applaud This Record. Remember Them
When They Endorse Others Or Seek Your Votes For Themselves



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Cindy Allen is with Megan McGuiness Kerr and 3 others: Robert Garcia, Lena
Gonzalez, Herlinda Chico
"Out here with great friends supporting the amazing Lena Gonzalez. We are so
lucky to have her representing our city."

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Publisher's Perspective: On Same Day Long Beach Had Three More Shootings, Mayor
Garcia Held June 18 Fundraiser For His "2026 Lt. Gov." Committee. His
Contributors Applaud This Record


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Perspective / Op-Ed: Veteran Professional Planner/Designer/Former Central CA
Councilman Deconstructs Claims By LB-Area State Senator Gonzalez And Her Sac'to
Colleagues On SB 9, Explains What It Will Really Mean For Single Family Home
Neighborhoods In Long Beach And Statewide

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Op-Ed: Into the Bowels of the Queen Mary
by Geraldine Knatz, Ph.D *
* Dr. Knatz was Exec. Director of the Port of Los Angeles (2006-January 2014)
prior to which she held management positions dealing with planning and
environmental issues at the Port of Long Beach.

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Editorial: From Long Beach to Pomona, Reporters Faced Federally-Desired,
Locally-Enabled Block That Manipulated Media Coverage Of Migrant Minor Detention
Facilities. That's Not OK.

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Open Letter to Long Beach Council: I'm Leaving Long Beach Because You've Let
Parts Of 1st Council District Descend Into Gunfire Ridden, Trash Filled, City
Enabled Squalor
by Emily Mastren *
* The author, a young woman with an infant daughter, lives in the neighborhood
just north of 7th St. west of Alamitos/MLK Ave. in the 1st Council district
represented since December 2019 by Councilwoman Mary Zendejas

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Editorial: Council Can And Should Tie Public/Press Transparency String to
Aquarium Operator's Request For $5 Mil Loan

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Editorial: LBCC Trustees Should Publicly Release Benchmark Investigations Report
And Stop Further Billable Legal Fees In Political Vendetta Against Trustee Sunny
Zia

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Outrages of the Year, 2020
Opinion Outrage of the Year: Cindy Allen's Campaign Contributors. They Funded
Candidate'a Evasive Responses On Major Matters Meriting Meaningful Answers
-------------- Follow-Up See Cindy Allen Campaign's Website-Listed Endorsers

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Opinion / Follow-Up To 2020 Outrage of the Year Runners-Up For 2020 Outrages Of
The Year; We Have Several, In Detail

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Ooops, We Nearly Forgot To Include THIS 2020 Outrage: Runners-Up For 2020
Outrages Of The Year; "Long Beach State Senator Lena Gonzalez Votes To Kill SB
640 That Would Have Allowed Intervention To Treat Severely Mentally Ill
Homeless."


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LB Elections: Follow the Money

Measures A & B: LBREPORT.com Seeks District Attorney Review Of Long Beach
Mayor/City Council Feb. 18 Actions re Measure B
Publisher raises issue of using public resources at that meeting to promote
ballot measure

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Measures A & B: Garcia-Run Campaign Has Spent Over $380,000 Since Jan 1 For
Gen'l Fund ("Blank Check") Tax Measures A & B...And Some LB Arts-Related
Entities (That Could Receive Ongoing Sums If Voters Approve Measure B) Recently
Contributed Nearly $20,000

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8th Dist: Dollar Donnybrook: Organized Labor Spends Large Sum For Thrash-Ntuk;
Business Interests Spend Big to Re-Elect Austin; Reform Ticket Challenger Ovalle
Uses Contribs Mainly From Grassroots Residents

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2nd Dist Deluge: Over $120,000 Spent Since Jan. 1 To Put Cindy Allen On City
Council ($70k+ From These Contribs + $50k+ From Two Indie Committees); Reform
Ticket Candidate Robert Fox (Using Mainly His Own Money) Has Spent $60k+; Pearce
Endorsee Lara About $10k, Barrera About $5.5k

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8th Dist + 6th Dist. These Five Entities + One Individual Just Added $42,500 To
Indie Campaign Seeking To Re-Elect Council Incumbents Andrews And Austin

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8th Dist: In 8th Dist., UniteHere! Union Adds $50,000 (Producing $125,000) For
Organized-Labor Indie Campaign Seeking To Elect Thrash-Ntuk

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Follow the Money: Carpenters Union PAC Adds $10k To Garcia-Run Pro-Measure A
Sales Tax Campaign; It's Collected Over Half A Million To Date From These
Entities To Spend Against Grassroots Taxpayers Relying On Bare-Bones Individual
Efforts

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2nd Dist: These Persons / Entities Gave These Sums To Elect Cindy Allen To LB
City Council (2nd Dist.)

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6th Dist: Three Unions Just Gave Nearly A Quarter Million Dollars To L.A. County
Labor Fed'n Which Is Allocating Estimated $40,000 In Indie Effort To Elect Suely
Saro In 6th District (South Wrigley/Central LB/Cambodia Town)

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Mayor Garcia: See Who Gave Maximum Sums To Mayor Garcia's 2026 Lt. Governor
Committee (That He's Used Thus Far As A Slush Fund To Support Other Campaigns)

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Subsequent coverage above: These Five Entities Just Gave $170,000 More --
Producing Total Now Nearly Half A Million -- For Garcia-Run Campaign To Continue
Imposing Measure A Gen'l Fund (Blank Check) Sales Tax

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Subsequent cverage above: 8th Dist: $75,000 Labor-Backed Indie Campaign Surfaces
In 8th District Backing Thrash-Ntuk

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Subsequent coverage above 6th + 8th Dists: These Entities Funded Indie Campaign
Supporting Re-Election Of Andrews in 6th, Austin In 8th

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Subsequent coverage above Measure A Sales Tax: LB Firefighters Union Adds
$125,000 to $200,000 From Police Officers Union To Fund Garcia-Run Campaign To
Permanently Impose "Measure A" (Blank Check) Sales Tax

RecentlyA Few Weeks AgoFurther Past Subsequent update above Multiple Persons
Fighting @ Palo Verde/Spring Bring Millikan School Safety Officer; He Approaches
A Vehicle; It Speeds Off; He Shoots, Critically Wounding A Woman

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Councilwoman Mungo To Unveil $3+ Million El Dorado Park Artificial Turf Soccer
Field Oct. 2, 10 a.m.

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Relay for Life Of Greater LB Teams/Volunteers Raise $55,000+ For American Cancer
Society (And Yes You Can Still Contribute)

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Overnight Shooting Wounds A Man, Anaheim/Magnolia, Same Area Where Woman Fatally
Shot And Female Juvenile Wounded In Dec. 2020

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LBPD Arrests Four Suspects On Suspicion Of Murders In 1400 block Cedar (June 24)
And 900 block Daisy (June 25)
LBPD says its detectives believe murders were gang-related and arrestees "may be
responsible for add'l shootings around same time frame"

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VIDEO; Pressburg Parkway (South St @ Jaymills ) Is Dedicated With Current/Former
Community Advocates + Reps Of Current Congressional, Assembly, Council Electeds
Attending To Honor Decades Of Volunteer Works By Dan Pressburg


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Subsequent coverage above Relay for Life Of Greater LB Teams Walk Round The
Clock To Support American Cancer Society At POA Park, 7390 E. Carson St., 9 a.m.
Sat Through 8 a.m. Sun With Multiple Events...And You're Invited

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Documents Show LB Animal Care Services Criminal Investigations Lieutenant
Concluded Two Dogs Owned By Urangas Were Maintained In Such A Way As To Cause
Needless Suffering And Requested Complaint; Urangas Denied Allegation (A
Misdemeanor) And DA Gascón's Office Agreed To Divert Case From Criminal
Prosecution

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LBUSD Will Leave 90% Of Unvaccinated Students (Includes All Those Under Age 12)
Untested For COVID-19 Each Week

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Cong Lowenthal (D, Long Beach) Says $3.5 Trillion Biden-Sought Infrastructure
Bill Will Cost Zero. Read His Twitter Reasoning (Retweeted by Mayor Garcia)

UPDATE: And now state Senator Lena Gonzalez (D, Long Beach-SE LA County)
enthusiastically joins in.

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FDA OKs Third Shot As Booster For Pfizer Vaccine, Applies To Persons 65+ And
18-64 If At High Risk Of Severe COVID-19 Or With Frequent Job Related Exposure
(Incl. Teachers, Grocery Workers, Homeless Shelter Workers)

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Perspective: Latest LB Health Order Contains COVID-19 Warnings Shrugged By Some
At Their Peril And Risks To Others

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Signal Hill Police Officer Shoots/Kills Knife Wielding Suspect After Stabbing
Outside Signal Hill Market

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Gunfire 600 block Magnolia (Barely 5 Blocks From LBPD HQ, CD1/Zendejas); Casings
Found, Parked Vehicle Hit

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Impassioned Effort To Recall LA County DA George Gascón Fails, Falls Short On
Signature Gathering, UPDATE: Leaders Form New Committee, Say They'll Gather
Necessary Financial Resources Before Starting New Signature Gathering

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Suspect Arrested -- In Iowa - ID'd by LBPD Detectives For Sept. 4 Double
Homicide 900 Block Park Circle; LBPD Chief Luna Puts Human Face On Victims,
Displays Their Photos (And Scorns Speaking Suspect's Name) At News Conference

Homicide victims Juan Guizar-Gutierrez and Maricela Honorato

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DA George Gascón's Office Used This Procedure To Let Urangas Avoid Possible
Criminal Prosecution In Alleged Animal Cruelty Case Do You Want Your Child In A
Roomful Of Unvax'd Children Not Tested For COVID For Over Two Weeks? LBUSD
Thinks That's OK, Announces "Pause" In Weekly COVID Tests With No Date For
Resumed Testing Pending "Consultation With Health Officials"

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Earthquake, Sept. 17 @ 7:58 p.m., 4.3 mag, epicenter 1 km ESE of Carson..

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Man Is Shot/Wounded While Walking With Woman In Alley, 1600 block Junipero

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Two Days After Avoiding Recall, Governor Newsom Signs Housing Density Boosting
SB 9 and SB 10 Into Law
Eastside Voice President Corliss Lee urges voters CDs 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 to replace
their Council incumbents in 2022, all of whom shrugged months of pleas by
neighborhood groups to agendize Council opposition to the bills (pending since
Dec 2020)

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Subsequent development above Council Votes 4-5 NOT To Support Belated Request By
Austin/Mungo/Price That Governor Newsom Veto SB 9 (Requires Cities To Allow 4
Units On Single Family Lots) and SB 10 (Allows Council To Approve 10 Units
Single Family Lots) With No CEQA Public Input And No Add'l Parking Required
Within Half Mile Of Transit.
Since Dec. 2020, Any Council Incumbent Could Have Agendized Item "On Any
Tuesday" To Oppose The Bills...And None Did. Council action comes despite
Council-recited "State Legislative Agenda" that says City would oppose bills
threatening local control on issues including land use; in Council discussion,
city staff admitted City remains "neutral"

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Newsom Recall Fails; Margin Voting "No" Is Nearly 2 to 1 Statewide, Roughly 70%
in LA County And In Political Stunner Majority Of Orange County Voters Voted
Against It

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Subsequent development above. Perspective: After Failing For Months To Agendize
A Council Item To Oppose SB 9 and 10, CD 5 Councilwoman Mungo (With
Councilmembers Price and Austin) Re-Agendize Last Week's Brown-Act Blocked Item
To Urge Governor To Veto The Bills
AND
Perspctive: After Failing For Months To Agendize A Council Item To Oppose SB 9
and 10, CD 5 Councilman Austin (With Councilmembers Price and Mungo) Re-Agendize
Last Week's Brown-Act Blocked Item To Urge Governor To Veto The Bills

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Surrounded by Dem Party Insiders At LBCC Event, President Biden Urges Voters To
Reject Newsom Recall, Praises Mayor Garcia On COVID And Garcia Praises Biden;
Outside Fence Opponents Jeer Biden; At Legends In Belmont Shore, Larry Elder
Tells Mainly Maskless Crowd He's Going To Win

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Sept. 12: Woman Is Shot/Wounded, Anaheim/Pine (CD 1/Zendejas), Same Area Two Men
Fatally Shot Aug 5

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First (Again) on LBREPORT.com: "Invitations" To Attend Biden LBCC Anti-Recall
Event Sent To Dem Party Activists And Partisans By Intermediary For Mayor Robert
Garcia, Asks For Their Position In Leadership Of Dem Party Group(s) And Seeks
Personal Info For Entry Decision To Be Made By Unnamed Persons

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President Biden Sept. 13 Anti-Recall Event Will Be At LBCC ELB Campus...And A
Councilwoman Says It Will Be By Invitation Only

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In case you missed it: On 9/11, LBREPORT.com carried a livestream of NYC Ground
Zero ceremony. The names of each of 2,977 men, women and children who perished
in the Al Qaeda-launched terrorist attacks at the WTC, the Pentagon and aboard
United Flight 93 were read. The 911 Ground Zero ceremony is now available
on-demand (use Facebook link below.)


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Two Shootings Within Six Hours In CD8/Austin (no person hit) and border of
CD6/Saro/CD1/Zendejas (woman hit/wounded)

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Sac'to Dem Backed Bill That Could Prevent Courts Statewide From Applying
Sentencing Enhancements Passes...With Ass'yman O'Donnell and state Senator
Umberg Recorded As "No Vote Recorded"

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LBPD Chief Luna To Retire in December
Despite Shootings And Mayor/Council Failure To Restore LB's Thinned Officer
Level, City Hall Release Quotes Luna As Thanking Mayor, Council, City Mgm't

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AUDIO: Councilmembers Mum As President Of Eastside Voice, Corliss Lee, Cites
Their Inaction As SB 9 (Four Housing Units And Potentially More On Single Family
Lots) And SB 10 (Letting Council OK Up To 10 Units On Single Family Lots) Near
Final Passage
She's Cut Off (Hits 3 Minute Limit) As Tries To Say L.A. Council Will Consider
Opposition Today (Aug. 18) Council Votes 6-1 (Supernaw Dissenting, Uranga
Absent, Mungo Vanished On Vote But Reapparing Minutes Later) To Oppose Newsom
Recall

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Midnight Hour Armed Robbery Hits Palo Verde/Atherton 7-11 (Border CD 3/CD 4
Price/Supernaw)

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On-Demand LBUSD Video Webinar On Independent Study Offers Details; LBUSD Staff
Proposes Independent Study Policy With Undefined "Opportunities" For Synchronous
Teacher Interaction At Various Grade Levels, Less Specific Than LAUSD's Policy

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Four Long Beach Councilmembers - Richardson, Allen, Zendejas, Saro -- Agendize
Aug. 17 Council Item To Oppose Newsom Recall

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Special Remembrance: As Afghanistan Falls To Taliban, LBREPORT.com Recalls Long
Beach Servicemembers Who Perished In That Fight





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Man Is Shot/Wounded In 1400 block LB Blvd (CD 1/Zendejas)...Less Than Six Hours
After Shooting A Mile Due East (14th/Gaviota/CD 6/Saro)

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Man Is Shot/Wounded In LB's Cambodia Town. 1400 block (CD6/Saro), 2 Parked
Vehicles Also Struck By Gunfire

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FDA OKs Third COVID-19 Vax Shot For Certain Immunocompromised Individuals...But
Not For Persons Who Aren't Immunocompromised

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Subsequent development above:LA School District Offered Parents This Online
Learning Hybrid As Alternative To Reopened Classrooms. Thus Far LB Schools
Won't...Unless LB School Bd Votes To Do So

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Subsequent development above:LA Schools Will Require All Teachers To Be Vax'd.
Thus Far LB Schools Won't...Unless LB School Bd Votes To Do So

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LBUSD Mgm't Plans To Reopen Schools Without Offering Online Learning Option;
Policy-Setting School Board Skeds Special Meeting Aug. 17 On Reopening Health
Safety Matters AND Independent Study

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LBPD Officers Safely Defuse Very Dangerous Situation: Responding To Shots Call
Area 4th/Orange, Non-Compliant Suspect Allegedly Shoots Toward Officers; LBPD
Sets Up Containment, Negotiates With Suspect And SWAT Takes Him Into Custody
With No Persons Injured

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AUDIO SPECIAL: In Their Words: Hear What Supporters Of "Peoples Budget" Said In
Demanding Council Defund 25% Of LBPD's Budget. They Said They Speak For The
"Community." Do They Speak For You?

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Aug 11 Shooting at Mid Afternoon In Willmore City Historic District (CD
1/Zendejas) Gunfire Strikes Multi-Unit Residence And Parked Unoccupied Vehicle

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LBPD Details On CD6/Saro Broad Daylight Shooting 20th/Pacific In Wrigley
District

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City Councilmembers Signal They Support Mayor/Mgr. Proposed FY22 Police Budget
That Won't Restore Any Of Roughly 230 Officers Erased By Prior/Current Councils

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Three-Time USA Water Polo Gold Medalist And All-Time Olympic Games Goal Scorer
(56!) Maggie Steffens Wows 'Em In Belmont Shore
by Doug Krikorian
Special to LBREPORT.com

USA Water Polo Star Maggie Steffens shows off the gold medal she and her
teammates won over the weekend at the Tokyo Games. Seated next to her at Legends
is the Naples Gondola Gateway's Big Mike O'Toole.

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