Stephen Downing was extraordinary. His presence in Long Beach and in the pages of the Beachcomber left a mark far deeper than the years between his birth and his passing last week.
Donna Reckseen is president emerita of the Memorial Medical Center Foundation, where she worked from 1980 to 2005. In recent years she has gained my attention for being a very funny person while writing in social media.
After 25 years of publishing a newspaper – following 25 years of writing corporate news releases – I can confirm why we did not run the item that you recently sent to the Beachcomber. Following are the top ten reasons your “news” will not get used.
As a young LAPD recruit, the first thing I learned when I pinned on a badge was simple but profound: power must always be visible and accountable. A nameplate, a badge number, an agency insignia – those aren’t just pieces of metal and cloth.
Last week we learned that two Long Beach Starbucks locations would be closing. One is at Palo Verde and Stearns; the other is in the Marina Pacifica Shopping Center in the 6300 block of Pacific Coast Highway.
As a former LAPD Deputy Chief, and before that a captain in South Central Los Angeles, I have lived through the history of police officers being assigned to schools.
Mental illness is a curse in our society. We see it every day with the political assassination of Charlie Kirk and with tyrants like Vladimir Putin as he continues his senseless war against Ukraine.
They say that the happiest days in a boat owner’s life are the day that they buy it and the day that they sell it. After 35 years of using commercial office space, that saying applies to Beachcomber as well.
