Childhood cancers make up less than 1 percent of all cancers diagnosed each year, yet over 10,000 children in the United States will be diagnosed with cancer in 2015, according to the American Cancer Society. The Tour of Long Beach on Saturday helped raise funding for research on pediatric cancer[Read More…]
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Mayor Garcia plans to provide every homeless vet with a place to live
Mayor Robert Garcia has made it his goal to sleep veterans in beds rather than on Long Beach’s hard concrete. “No veteran of the American armed forces should ever be without a home,” Mayor Garcia said in a public address on April 29. “Every single veteran deserves a place to[Read More…]
Smart meters reporting water wasters
People can now be fined for watering their lawns. The Board of Water Commissioners declared an Imminent Water Supply Stage 3 Shortage this week, limiting the number of days that residents and businesses can water landscape in Long Beach. “We have been using smart meter technology to take action on[Read More…]
‘Water’ those smells?
Some Long Beach residents have experienced unpleasant odors in their tap water, and the Long Beach Water Department is blaming it on hydrogen sulfide. The LBWD acknowledged the problem in a statement released Monday, which said that some of the local wells treated by the Groundwater Treatment Plant have low[Read More…]
Blacklists and bong hits
Medical marijuana users may be ineligible for organ transplants, depending on the vote of the California Senate. Assembly Bill 258, passed with a 52-8 vote on Thursday, now awaits the senate’s verdict. The bill, introduced by Assemby Member Marc Levine in February, explicitly states that hospitals or physicians cannot deny[Read More…]
Long Beach offering opportunities in the job market
Employment opportunities may be more easily attained in Long Beach compared to other cities in California. The city of Long Beach unemployment rate has improved to its lowest level since the early months of the past recession, according to a press release from City Hall Tuesday. “The jobs [created] were[Read More…]
Port of Long Beach Receives Backlash from Environmental Groups
The Port of Long Beach, known as “The Green Port” for its environment friendly policies, is facing serious criticism as it goes ahead with plans to export dangerous carbon material. Earthjustice, a non-profit public interest organization, has criticized the port’s recent decision to continue with two export agreements involving coal[Read More…]
Airport drills put Long Beach’s emergency crews to the test
A signal flare and fake smoke indicated to first responders that the drill had begun, and dozens of fire trucks and ambulances lined up to treat volunteer actors. To better prepare for a worst-case disaster scenario, Long Beach Airport held Emergency Training Drills on the night of April 24 in[Read More…]
Long Beach introduces new smart parking meters
The process of replacing old coin-based parking meters in Downtown Long Beach with over 1,000 “smart ones” to meet meter needs officially began on Monday. The new smart parking meters will accept coins, debit and credit cards. The organization projects the overall installation will take a four-week period by installing[Read More…]
Mayor Robert Garcia sees a Silicon Valley in Long Beach’s future
To push Long Beach’s notability, Mayor Robert Garcia said that he intends to add the city to the list of growing tech hubs in California, according to an L.A. Times article. To change Long Beach into a “startup” city would mean changing its entire composition, Dr. Burkhard Englert, the chair[Read More…]