With about 50 firefighters in the audience Tuesday night, the Long Beach City Council approved, 4-1, a plan to spend $2.1 million to purchase a new ladder fire truck to replace an aging vehicle that …
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By James Bernstein
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5/19/22
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After decades of dealing with financial troubles — a massive lawsuit, mounting debt, a payoff scandal and low ratings from Wall Street — Long Beach officials say they believe the city has …
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By James Bernstein
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5/12/22
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The Long Beach City Council is expected Tuesday to vote on a proposal to spend about $2 million for a new fire truck to replace an aging vehicle that was badly damaged during Super Storm Sandy. But a …
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By James Bernstein
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5/12/22
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Eastholme residents won their case before Long Beach’s Zoning Board of Appeals against Great Neck developer Charles Rafimayeri, who sought to make major changes to a century-old home he owns on …
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By Brendan Carpenter
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5/5/22
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Long Beach community members gathered at Temple Emanu-El last Thursday, April 28, to commemorate Yom Hashoah, also known as Holocaust Memorial Day. Cantor Lisa Kantor sung and the keynote speaker, …
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5/5/22
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Taxes are expected to go up in Long Beach this coming year, after the City Council proposed a budget with a tax rate slightly higher than before.
If adopted, the new budget — at a 4.96 …
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By James Bernstein
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4/28/22
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What should the city of Long Beach like a decade or so from now?
City officials and consultants are trying, once again, to institute a comprehensive plan to guide Long Beach’s development as …
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By James Bernstein
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4/28/22
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The Long Beach City Council has proposed a 2022-23 budget that carries a tax rate of 4.96 percent, lower than last year’s 6.33 percent rate.
The budget proposal was posted on the …
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By James Bernstein
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4/21/22
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The most emphatic voice of opposition to the Long Beach City Council’s proposal to raise beach fees on Tuesday night came from one of its own members, Roy Lester.
During a two-hour public …
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By James Bernstein
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4/21/22
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The Long Beach City Council voted Tuesday night, 4 to 0 with one abstention, to approve a document aimed at settling a decades-long dispute with the developer Sinclair Haberman, who had filed a $130 …
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By James Bernstein
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4/21/22
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