The last time the combination of Long Beach and crime was featured in this space, some of the area's dimmer predatory perverts were doing their part to help NBC's ratings. Now comes better news.
According to the Long Beach Press-Telegram, crime is down in LBC, despite what you might see on Dateline NBC's hidden cameras.
City crime rates dropped for the fourth consecutive year, including the lowest number of murders - 41 - since Long Beach began tracking crime statistics more than 30 years ago
We're re-posting this Oct. 10, 2005, post because:
a) A reader wondered why the Weekly had never connected slime-ball GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff to our smurfin' Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach). As the post shows, Clockwork had (and Moxley will mention it in Thursday's edition).
2) For reasons only the gremlins of cyberspace know, the item, "FOO Fighter," never got transferred over from our old database to our--cough, cough, cough--new improved database.
thirdly) You'll need w
Interesting June 6 election endorsements from the Elections Committee of the County of Orange (ECCO), a political action committee aimed at mainstream (change to:) Democrat Party hacky gay lesbians Democrats:
GOVERNOR
Steve Westley (D) - endorsed
Phil Angelides (D) - acceptable
Arnold Schwarzenegger (D, er, R) - unacceptable
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Rocky "The Liar" Delgadillo (D) - endorsed
Jerry Brown (D) - acceptable
69th ASSEMBLY DISTRICT
Armando "Not My Real Last Name" de la Libertad (D) - en
Early in his political career, Dana Rohrabacher hailed himself as a term-limits champion for federal politicians and spoke passionately about the inherent evils of one person staying in power for an extended period of time.
Fast-forward 20 years: Rohrabacher, the conservative Republican seeking an eleventh term in Washington, D.C., is now mute on term limits.
Several election cycles ago—when the congressman still spoke to (okay, yelled at) me, I asked him for an explanation for his change
Dear Joe the Plumber,
As you well know, you have unplugged many a drain at Casa de Coker over the years and sooner or later you'll be handling that bathroom remodel we talked about years ago. But first, I have a favor. I have started a petition drive where signees will let my bosses know what a good job I'm doing for my reader(s). Yes, I do want your signature, but I also need $5 to help pay for the gathering of more signatures.
The importance of this petition drive is spelled out in a fake ne
Assemblyman Mike Duvall apparently heeded a powerful call for his resignation.Several media outlets are reporting that Assemblyman Michael D. Duvall (R-Yorba Linda) has resigned amid the scandal uncovered last night by OC Weekly and KCBS/KCAL about his inadvertent admissions of adultery with a utility lobbyist.Duvall--vice chairman of the powerful Committee on Utilities & Commerce--trotted onto the state Assembly floor this morning with his game face on. It was the look of a man trying to
"Open Mike" DuvallA day after the Assembly Ethics Committee and Assembly Speaker Karen Bass announced they will not go after disgraced former Assemblyman Mike Duvall, California Attorney General Jerry Brown revealed today he doesn't plan to investigate the Yorba Linda Republican either.In other Duvall news, five candidates have reportedly qualified to run in a November special election for the Assembly seat he vacated.
