By Steven Piper
Editorial Intern
The end of August concluded the California legislature’s law-making season, and a bill (AB1955) that would have stringently regulated elected officials’ income levels died while in the Senate– only weeks after Los Angeles Times reporters exposed the criminally large salaries that certain employees in the City of Bell had been earning.
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Signal Hill city manager explains councilmembers’ complicated salaries
September 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Employment, News
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Water Replenishment District working to ensure reliable supply of groundwater in So Cal
September 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Environment, News
By Nick Diamantides
Staff Writer
(Part two of a two-part series)
If not for the work done by the Water Replenishment District (WRD), residents in the Long Beach-Signal Hill area and surrounding cities would be paying much more for water, and they would not have as much of it available to them.
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Long Beach native competing on CBS reality show Survivor
September 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Entertainment, News
By Brett Ashley Hawkins
Editorial Intern
As television viewers evaluate the shows they wish to watch this fall, one of Long Beach’s own will grace the small screen as one of the latest castaways on the 21st season of CBS’s Survivor. Appearing on Survivor: Nicaragua will be Na Onka Mixon, a 27-year-old elementary-school physical-education teacher and YMCA [...]
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SH Council approves EDCO truck terminal, Clearwire antenna plans
September 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Environment, News
By Nick Diamantides
Staff Writer
As expected, during its Tuesday (September 7) night meeting, the Signal Hill City Council formally approved EDCO’s plan to construct a truck terminal and office facility on an approximately 2.5-acre site on the south side of 27th Street between California and Myrtle avenues.
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LB Fire, Police departments to salute September 11 fallen
September 10th, 2010 · No Comments · News
The Long Beach Fire and Police departments will conduct a ceremony honoring those who lost their lives during the attacks of September 11, 2001. This year marks the ninth anniversary of the tragic events that unfolded that day.
The event will take place on Saturday, Sept. 11 at 9am on Chestnut Avenue, south of Broadway in [...]
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