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Oh, the lengths governors around the country will go to in order to avoid raising the gas tax.

Stick around after the debate is over for a brief chat with each of the candidates.

As everybody gathered in the middle of Crenshaw Blvd. for a group photo at the end of the King Day parade, an African-American freelance photojournalist came out to where I was positioned with my camera.

Anyone that's met Veronica Hernandez knows that our former intern doesn't do anything half-way. When we asked for her help to plan our social media expansion, she readily answered the call. Part of the project was designing logos for the SoCal Streetsblog TV and SoCal StreetsTube. In typical fashion, she gave us two logos: one uses the Live Stream colors and the other the Streetsblog colors. Yesterday morning, I picked the Live Stream color scheme one because, well, because it arrived in my inbox before the other one.

After fighting to maintain reasonable funding levels in the transportation bill – and for the inclusion of dedicated transit funding in the first place – the Federal Transit Administration now finds itself up against almost certain funding cuts that imperil rail and bus expansion projects, as well as the agency's own staffing.

(Images by our old friend Veronica Hernandez.)

The first time he shot somebody, he says, another gang member helped him hold his hand steady as he aimed the gun out the window of the car they were sitting in.

The racial and economic disparities amongst the bicycling communities in Long Beach is not one to be understated. In fact, a friend of mine pointed this out while we were doing the cover photoshoot for the Long Beach Post's Person of the Year, the Bicyclist: "Wow, this crowd is overwhelmingly... white."

Do you live in or travel through Watts? Are you stymied by the potholes there? 15th District Councilman and Chairman of the City Council’s Public Works Committee Joe Buscaino  plans to come to your rescue.