Steps away from the eastern border of Long Beach sits a fairly new building at the corner of Pioneer Avenue and Carson Street. The sign says “The Gardens Casino” but in reality, it is a card club – one of the 76 in California that the Tribal casinos would like to shut down.
I must have been around nine years old when I asked my mom if we could have a cat. She responded, “absolutely not.” When I asked “why” she gave me that look that said she didn’t want to talk about it and neither should I.
The general public’s first exposure to TigerText, a cell phone text messaging application, occurred this past July when mainstream media reported the app was at the center of legal wrangling between Shari Redstone’s National Amusement company and CBS CEO Les Moonves.
On Sept. 4, Michael McHale, president of the National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO) published an open letter to Nike’s chairman, president and CEO to “condemn in the strongest possible terms” his selection of Colin Kaepernick for Nike’s “Just Do It” ad campaign.
