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Nancy Wride (Editor) June 17, 2013 at 01:40 pm
Hi Mark. I'll see if I can find out. Roughly what time and nearest landmark if any?
Mike Ruehle June 3, 2013 at 01:36 pm
Prior to his election as a write-in candidate, Councilman Patrick O'Donnell told the Long Beach…Read More Business Journal on February 28, 2012 the following:*****
LBBJ: If you win the reelection, will you commit to a full four-year term?*****
Councilman O'Donnell: If you run for four, you serve four. *****
LBBJ: So, you're not going to run for Assembly in two years? *****
O'Donnell: Correct. *****
LBBJ: No matter what? *****
O'Donnell: Correct. If you run for four, you serve four. *****
If you can't trust O'Donnell's word, why would anyone vote for him to be their representative for political office? *****
http://www.lbreport.com/news/jan13/odonlbbj.htm
Nancy Wride (Editor) June 3, 2013 at 02:22 pm
And do his supporters care about this, do you think? No doubt others will.
Mike Ruehle June 3, 2013 at 11:43 pm
Regarding, "do O'Donnell's supporters care?", many of O'Donnell's supporters are in…Read More elected and appointed public positions, and their support of O'Donnell includes placing the financial burden of a $150,000 special election on the taxpayers. I would think that a responsible journalist would ask each of them about that issue.
Richard May 31, 2013 at 10:54 am
This opinion piece is so full of self-serving hot air it could float. Two paths will make the beach…Read More look like a freeway? The author clearly hasn't seen too many freeways lately. Speaking of seeing, if the author would care to spend a little time looking at the beach (which I do on a daily basis, as I live overlooking the Bluff) they would realize that the current bike/pedestrian path is the most heavily used and enjoyed segment of the beach from the Belmont Pier to Shoreline Village. On any given day, there will be hundreds of people on the paths, compared with a handful on the sand itself.
The author inadvertently makes that point when he or she writes that the beach "...should be valued for its own recreational value." Clearly, many more people enjoy walking, running or bicycling on the path than on the beach itself. Give the people what they want, and not what a mysterious, nameless, faceless group is trying to block.
Shore Resident June 3, 2013 at 08:37 am
Uh, Richard? Opinion pieces are by nature self-serving and one sided. I'm not saying that is agree…Read More with the opinion, just saying that gordana can have her say.
"In 1990 Acres of Books was designated a cultural heritage landmark by the City of Long Beach. In its long history Acres of Books has served clientele such as Jack Vance, Upton Sinclair, Stan Freberg, Gary Owens, James Hilton, Greg Bear, Tim Powers, Thurston Moore, Mike Watt, Paul Schrader, Fran Lebowitz, Robert Easton, Eli Wallach, Diane Keaton and most notably Ray Bradbury, who immortalized the bookstore in an essay entitled "I Sing The Bookstore Eclectic". Acres of Books closed on October 18, 2008.[1] The owners have sold the 12,000-square-foot (1,100 m2) lot the store is located on to the Long Beach Redevelopment Agency for $2.8 million.[2] Subsequently, the Redevelopment Agency was dissolved by order of Governor Jerry Brown. The site was proposed to be developed as an art exchange, but the project seems to be moribund." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acres_of_Books
Check my profile photo - you just have to zoom WAY in. (To the right spot. ;-)
Had it been a straight pride event with a breeders like myself promoting the sacrament of marriage between a man and woman in a like pose, I would have posted that as well. I will never get in the way of some and their right to voice their opinion, nor censor it in my photos. Too many of our men and women have given their lives for that right, and I will fight to defend and preserve those rights until you pry the camera from my cold, dead fingers. And I apologize for not tendering a retort to your post at an earlier date. It is rare I read the comments unless I have posted one myself.
Anyway if someone wants to be part of the solution vs. part of the problem there are many opportunities to get involved in making Long Beach a better place to live.
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2013/05/newport_beach_police_chief_acc.php http://www.nbpd.org/insidenbpd/history/johnson.asp
I have some photos from the 80's of Belmont Shore (where I lived) packed away and some from the 90's. At one point I was into taking photos of the demolition of the downtown mall and the rebuild of it. I'd have to unpack old hardcopy photos and go thru them which I can do at some point. Also during late 1990's thru early 2000's was into using my video cam for endless beach related photos and homes in Belmont Shores. 2007-2012 I lived in downtown Long Beach and actually loved living in that area. I was taking many photos by digital phone. Many were lost though I have those of the Pike area and Shoreline Village. Anyway TMI probably tho had wanted to write a book about Long Beach and the changes thru the years hence all the photos and have a journal I kept about changes that happened over the years. May not be too interesting tho I enjoyed keeping it. I do love Long Beach!