This Michelle person is an idiot! [Beachcombing, above] There is no handicap parking on Broadway, I have reported this to ADA and filed a formal complaint with them about the City of Long Beach and not giving a crap about the disabled in the city.
You see them hanging around the post office in Los Altos or pushing shopping carts full of junk up and down Bellflower Boulevard or camping in our parks and other places around town. They are the transients who usually do not have a job but instead have signs asking for free money.
It is no surprise that after three decades, Mitsubishi Motors of America has decided to relocate its North American headquarters from Cypress to Tennessee. California is hostile to business and welcoming to illegal aliens. The real surprise is that Mitsubishi waited this long to move.
After a meeting with the Broadway Corridor Association, who determined I would be president again after founding it in 1992 and serving as president for 16 years, I am again president.
I read the article Kirt Ramirez about the “Road Diet Upsets Many” in the May 10 edition of the Beachcomber with no surprises being revealed in the context of the story.
There are several reasons for the homeless problem. About one third are mentally ill and should be treated in mental facilities but because of miss management of taxpayer money such as the train to now where, multi billion pension obligations to the public sector unions, special interests etc.
I read the interview by Art Levine with Jerry Schubel, Aquarium of the Pacific director. Allow me to sum up what was supposed to be a two-way conversation. Schubel never directly answered questions asked by Al Levine. All he did was pitch talking points.
I really enjoyed your [Long Beach’s First Power Woman] piece for several reasons, not the least of which it reminded me of my great grandparents: Jake and Phoebe Davies. He was the first marshal of Long Beach (and the town drunk).