There is no question that Long Beach has had one of the most successful vaccine rollout efforts in California. In fact, we’ve been hailed as a statewide model by the Governor and health leaders from across the country.
WomenShelter of Long Beach is proud to host a variety of events during April 2021, which is National Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). WSLB is collaborating with our community partners on a number of events to honor survivors, raise awareness, and educate the community on how to prevent…
I may live to regret this, but I'm going to talk about the COVID-19 vaccination program again this week.
Vietnam Benches
Imagine an emerald chain of natural parks connected by bike, equestrian, and walking trails, along a revitalized Los Angeles River. That verdant new dawn is what the city of Long Beach promised its park-poor West in 2007 and again in 2015. Visualizations from the RiverLink Plan were dazzling.
A few weeks ago, a wrote a slightly tongue-in-cheek column touting a sticker or button to tell everyone I had received my COVID-19 vaccination.
While COVID-19 most frequently affects the lungs, other parts of the body may also be impacted, such as a loss of taste and smell. For a smaller number of people, instances of hearing loss are emerging, according to the International Journal of Audiology.
For many of us, the growing excitement about improved COVID numbers and the start of in-person instruction for some of our youngest students next week has been tempered by the race-based violence in Atlanta last week, followed by the terrible shootings at a Boulder, Colorado, supermarket. Th…
Easter is, at least for faithful Christians, the most important, most joyous Sunday of the year.
Restore Library Budget
I want to applaud the Long Beach City Council for passing the item to increase the number of Social Equity Brick-and-Mortar retail licenses in Long Beach by unanimous vote.
Transitions are critical to understanding pretty much anything, and we're definitely in a transition period right now.
Loves City App
For the past year, the city’s Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Communications Department has played a critical role in assisting the Long Beach Health and Human Services Department with our COVID-19 pandemic response. We have been focused on assisting health officials with setting up and …
Women's History Month is a time for us to recognize and salute women's contributions that have built and strengthened our society, and continue to enrich lives and spur innovation.
Don't you just love it when a plan comes together?
Mixed-Use Neighborhoods
ADU expansion is a goldfish compared to the Great White Shark of Senate Bills 9 and 10 pending in Sacramento. SB 9/10 increase housing density in single family residence (SFR) neighborhoods from 1 house to 6 units up to 10 with local approval.
I wish I were talking about opening International City Theatre again and not just survival of the theatre — survival of all the arts. It is the arts that feed our souls, our spirits and our minds.
There's a ride in California Adventure called Toy Story Midway Mania. It's sort of a shooting gallery, but you're moving through it, sitting in a car.
City's Homeless Efforts
Editor's note. Pete Brooks was a production manager and occasional music columnist for the Grunion from 1989 to 2001.
I am currently doing battle on Facebook with a group of people who think it is smart to post a video in protest of the current proposal before the City Council to rename the Long Beach Performing Arts Center, the Beverly O’Neill Arts Center. The video and comments suggest that former Mayor O…
Don't look now, but we're coming up on the first of two annual fund-raising seasons.
More On Rights
In this post-election relative calm, it seems a good time to calmly consider a familiar election issue: how we California voters tackle those infamous ballot measures, usually a dozen or more every two years that turn us into unpaid state lawmakers.
We live in a world of instant communication — text messages, email alerts, news from around the world as it happens.
Protect Our Rights
For more than four decades, our nation has taken the month of February to celebrate the many contributions African Americans have made since the very beginnings of our country.
Unless there's another glitch, I'll get my second dose of Moderna tomorrow, Friday.
There is no arguing that the past four years have been difficult for many of us.
Will you be my Valentine? How about be my funny Valentine?
Help Fountain
During the presidential campaign, much was said about the growing student debt crisis and the hope that debt forgiveness/reduction will soon become a reality. For those of us in higher education, it is a conversation we’ve long hoped the nation’s leaders would have as we edge toward a disast…
Passion is an interesting word.
My active senior lifestyle has rarely been punctuated by illness. Until Jan. 4, when I was hospitalized at Long Beach MemorialCare Medical Center, I had not been hospitalized since birth.
I can already hear the cries from City Hall critics as they read the headline on this column.
Over the past 10 months, we have learned a lot about COVID-19, but one sad fact has been consistent since the first cases were reported last March: this virus, which is dangerous to people of all ages, too often proves fatal in older adults.
Despite our low campus population since last March, key Beach personnel, together with external teams, have been working to repair and improve facilities and infrastructure, as well as work on new structures around The Beach. From necessary landscaping projects to construction on our forthco…
When I'm not worried about violent insurrection or less-than-perfect vaccine distribution, it's always fun to try to figure out what the federal bureaucracy was thinking when they do stuff.
Editor's Note: The following letter appeared last week with the wrong author listed.
I have lived on Obispo Avenue for 17 years. Our block is constantly abused by offsite rehab members abusing our neighborhood.
According to Mayor Robert Garcia’s office, a record number of people watched/listened to his State of the City speech, delivered virtually on several online platforms.
Climate Change Natural
I wake up every weekday at 7:45 a.m. and immediately log on to Canvas (the Long Beach school platform) and start my first zoom of the day. I spend the remainder of the day there, provided I don’t have any other engagements.
When I got up on Jan. 1, 2021, things were looking okay.
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