Over 400 local residents are expected to attend the fifth annual People’s State of the City event. The Daily 49er interviewed James Suazo, one of the speakers and hub coordinator with Building Healthy Communities Long Beach, to discuss issues facing Long Beach right now such as minimum wage and police[Read More…]
Long Beach
Any off-campus news. Events that happen off-campus or news that affect/interest the greater Long Beach community fall under this category.
Girl Scouts join Long Beach Comic Expo for Emet Comics workshop
The Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles not only earned their Comic Artist Badge but gained insight into and knowledge of girl power in the comic book industry at the Long Beach Comic Expo this past weekend. The Girl Scout Comic Artist workshop was created in response to the huge[Read More…]
Violent crime rates escalate in Long Beach
Violent crime escalated in Long Beach, according to a press release in January by the Long Beach Police Department. It increased almost 19 percent since 2014, with 17 of the 36 murders last year being gang-related. This rise was consistent across the country, with some crime statistics as high as[Read More…]
ASI senate recommends Greek life adviser position
The Associated Students Inc. senate approved resolution to officially urge Student Life and Development to create and fill a position for a Greek life adviser during their Wednesday meeting. This position would act as an intermediary between Greek life and other organizations in addition to advising their members. “I’ve been[Read More…]
Kappa Sigma formally suspended after alleged sexual assault at party
The Kappa Sigma chapter at Cal State Long Beach has been suspended from campus, pending a legal investigation into a sexual assault that allegedly took place at the fraternity’s house off-campus. On Monday, an unnamed female student reported she was sexually assaulted in the early hours of Sunday morning after[Read More…]
Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter closed for repeated violations
The CSULB chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon will be closed for “no less than four years,” according to the fraternity’s national headquarters. Sigma Alpha Epsilon headquarters officially suspended the chapter’s charter in late January, according to information released by the organization Friday. The chapter’s closure followed two sexual assault accusations[Read More…]
Student reports sexual assault at Kappa Sigma party
A female student reported that she was sexually assaulted at an off-campus party hosted by Kappa Sigma Fraternity early Sunday morning. The student reported the case to a Cal State Long Beach campus security authority early Sunday morning who then notified university police. University police sent out an email Monday[Read More…]
Long Beach Mayor proposes sales tax increase for June ballot
According to a revised City Council agenda, Mayor Robert Garcia intended to propose a 1 percent increase on sales tax that would be in effect for six years, then decrease to .5 percent for another four years. This was to clarify the mayor’s previous letter to City Council Thursday that[Read More…]
Long Beach medical marijuana initiative couldn’t deliver
The days when you could go from doing yoga on the bluff, ride your bike to pick up homemade hummus from the Farmer’s Market at Cherry Park and swing by one of the 10 marijuana dispensaries lining Broadway before heading back to your studio apartment in the East Village are[Read More…]
Mayor Garcia proposes one-cent sales tax increase
Mayor Garcia, along with former Mayors Bob Foster and Beverly O’Neill, gave the city council a letter asking for a measure to be put on the the ballot to help combat the city’s “two pressing challenges” by raising the sales tax one cent. The two challenges are $2.8 billion in[Read More…]