A friend sent the following about why people read certain newspapers across the U.S. — thought you’d find it enlightening and funny…
The Demographics of American Newspapers
1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country .
2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country.
3. The New […]

I found an interesting development today in City Council. Take a look at the Council agenda and try to find how many items of the 39 items on the agenda that were placed there by a member of the City Council.
Look hard.
There was only three: a travel report from Councilwoman Tonia Uranga, a report on the Federal […]

Bill Pearl, web gruru for LBReport.com, got us good this time. Yep. The City Council was asleep at the wheel over AB 1430.
How could we have missed that bill? It guts the City of Long Beach’s Prop M law.
Let’s recap. The City of Long Beach enacted campaign finance reforms with the passage of Prop M. […]

Ah, it’s time to examine one of the new “themes” in organizational theory and behavior being batted around in public administration — “we need to get departments out of their ’silos.’” Let’s examine this concept and make sure everyone is on the same page.
Silos are very interesting things. In reality they are storage structures for storing […]

Tonite I cast three votes that I think need explaining.
Vote 1 –taken in closed session and annouced by the City Attorney in open session. The vote was 8-1. I voted against a proposal to remove Acting City Manager Chris Shippey from her position because it was argued that while she remained in that position, it […]

She indeed will be missed in the Democratic Party.