Long Beach, More Roundabouts Please
Here's the thing: I love roundabouts and pretty much hate most traffic signals. And here's why: the former are simply better on all every level possible.
July 18, 2013
As Professional Trucker Pool Dips in Numbers, LBCC Looks to Veterans to Help Fill Trucker Workforce
Following a previous $440,000 grant from the California Community College Chancellor's Office--in addition to $450,000 in industry pledges, mainly headed by the Harbor Trucking Association--Long Beach City College (LBCC) can now add an additional $211,733 from the Department of Transportation (DOT) to help boost its professional truck driving training program.<
July 10, 2013
Housing in Long Beach, Part 2: Income Doesn’t Pay the Rent
This is part two of a series on Long Beach housing. To read part one, which examines Long Beach's migration movements and its ties to housing, click here.
June 26, 2013
Housing in Long Beach, Part 1: How Migrations Created the Most Diverse City in the U.S.
Little is it known that a Long Beach-based organization, the Fair Housing Foundation, played an extensively large part in creating California's current open-housing policies and sale/rental equalities.
June 20, 2013
Long Beach: Abandoned Broadway Property to Become Parc Broadway Lofts & Retail
It's the sadly abandoned building that attempted to be M.C. Escher-like but ended up looking more like a forrest green and maroon mess. And the property that is 245 W Broadway--what was once filled with offices and last occupied, at least in one of them, with a strange artist collective known as 245 West Broadway Productions--has been surrounded by fencing for what seems like forever.
June 18, 2013
Long Beach: City Hall East Closes Escrow; The Edison Lofts Officially Moves In
Built in 1959, the famed Kenneth Wing-designed building between 1st & Broadway--sadly vacant since 2005--has officially closed escrow following the sale of the property by the city to developers Ratkovich Properties for $2.1 million.
June 14, 2013
Opinion: Metro, Don’t Make the Same Mistake Long Beach Transit Did on Electric Buses
Last week, Metro postponed a decision to procure 30 zero emission buses. Despite my support for electric transit, I regard the vote with mixed feelings. As much as we want to say, "Green is green, that is all," that no matter how we go about doing it, increasing zero emissions vehicle usage is a good thing despite the means...
June 12, 2013
Long Beach: The (Brilliant) Idea of Turning Shoemaker Bridge into a Park
The author would like to thank City Fabrick and its team for contributing to this piece.
May 31, 2013
