Thanks to a list of people and organizations that I will acknowledge on Tuesday at City Council — the Community Baby Shower was a success.
90 newborn kits were assembled by volunteers who completed the task in 1 hour — filling diaper bags with diapers, hand made blankets and booties, baby clothes, baby wipes (we had […]

Long Beach is one of three cities in California that operates its own public health department. This provides the opportunity for the City to address public health problems that impact all of us — no matter whether or not we have our own private health care coverage.
For instance, in the late 1980’s and 1990’s — […]

I was the lone vote on the City Council against a program to allow local pharmacies to provide free hypodermic syringes and needles to drug users who sign up with the City’s Health Department. The program is legal and authorized by the state of California with the hope it will reduce the number of HIV/AIDS […]

Bright and early this morning, a room full of officials from the State Department of Health Services, the California Environmental Protection Agency (California Regional Water Quality Control Board), Boeing Corporation, Douglas Realty, a representative from the City of Lakewood, a representative from the City of Long Beach Health Department, my chief of staff and I, met […]

More than 25 members of the public have signed up to go on a “field trip” tomorrow, Saturday, June 23 beginning at 10 am, to view first hand the City’s lakes, ponds and wetlands and to review the status of their condition as this task force puts together recommendations on how we can improve conditions […]

Gardasil is the only known vaccine that may help guard against diseases that are known to cause cervical cancer from the human papilloma virus (HPV). HPV also causes genital warts.
It is given in a series of three shots to females ages 9 through 26 to protect them from getting HPV.
The reason I bring this issue […]