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A Clockwork Orange

The Sky IS Falling: Videos Capture Tornadoes, Floods, Whirlpools and . . . Surfing in Long Beach?

By Matt Coker, Thursday, Jan. 21 2010 @ 8:59AM
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Categories: Long Beach, Wacky Vids
The winter storms pounding the region have produced more than floods, tornadoes and heavy surf. They have also spawned YouTube videos capturing the deluge.

The first video should boost the Sink the Breakwater campaign . . .


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[UPDATED:] Breaking: Tornado Warning Issued for OC and Long Beach

By Matt Coker, Tuesday, Jan. 19 2010 @ 1:18PM
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Categories: Breaking News, Long Beach
UPDATED WITH TORNADO WARNING EXTENDING TO ORANGE COUNTY . . .
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ABC News reports the tornado warning previously issued for Long Beach and south-central Los Angeles County now includes the Orange County communities of Seal Beach, Huntington Beach, Westminster, Garden Grove, Irvine, Fullerton, Costa Mesa and Anaheim.
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Carnival Scratches "Cougar and Cub" Cruises

By Matt Coker, Tuesday, Jan. 12 2010 @ 2:28PM
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Categories: Long Beach
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"Here, cubby, cubby, cubby."
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"Ain't we got fun?" used to be the motto of Carnival Cruise Lines, which has ended the fun for boatloads of "cougars" hoping to snare willing "cubs."
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Tale of Three Port of Long Beach Realities

By Matt Coker, Wednesday, Jan. 6 2010 @ 8:04AM
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Categories: Long Beach, OC Media
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"Ports Celebrate Clean Truck Program Anniversary"
Long Beach Press Telegram

"Port Trucking Company Fights Economy, Environmental Fee"
89.3 KPCC

"Backroom Deal Leaves Long Beach Truck Program in Hands of Polluting Industry"
Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club via PR Newswire


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Bike Boxes Open in Long Beach

By Matt Coker, Tuesday, Jan. 5 2010 @ 1:30PM
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Categories: Long Beach
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Bicyclists feel boxed in--and safer--at this Long Beach intersection.
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Long Beach is inviting two-wheelers to check the city's first bike boxes along Second Street at Bayshore and Marina Drive.
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Daredevil Travis Pastrana Rings In New Year With Long Beach Stunt

By Matt Coker, Thursday, Dec. 31 2009 @ 6:30AM
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Categories: Long Beach, Sports
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Before the clock strikes midnight on the East Coast tonight, Travis Pastrana will try to accomplish what's billed as "the first ever ramp-to-ramp car jump over water," with the Queen Mary in Long Beach as his backdrop.
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Dude, Where's My VW Bus That Was Stolen 35 Years Ago? Oh, There It Is

By Matt Coker, Friday, Nov. 6 2009 @ 7:08AM
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Categories: Crime & Sex, Long Beach
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You never know what will turn up in a container at the Long Beach port. Sure, the vast majority are filled with legal products bound for store shelves all across this great land. But every so often inspectors will find smuggled guns, drugs, humans . . .

. . . a Volkswagen Bus that was reported stolen in Washington more than 35 years ago.

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Off Gerrie Schipske Goes Into the Wild Blue LBC Yonder

By Matt Coker, Wednesday, Sep. 16 2009 @ 2:45PM
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Categories: Long Beach, Politics

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Gerrie Schipske
Gerrie Schipske
vaulted from the delivery room at Long Beach Naval Hospital in 1950 to a degree in history from UC Irvine in 1973 to successful careers as a registered nurse, attorney and teacher of women's studies, political science and public administration at Cal State Long Beach to her election to the Long Beach Community College Board of Trustees in 1992 to razor-thin losses as the Democratic nominee to Republican Assemblyman Steve Kuykendall in 1996 and Congressman Steve Horn in 2000 to an under-funded campaign against Dana Rohrabacher in 2002 to, finally, election to the Fifth District seat on the Long Beach City Council in 2006.

With her new book, Schipske is aims higher--much, much higher. 

Early Aviation in Long Beach (Arcadia Publishing, $21.99) is a pictorial history of manned air flight in the LBC. Sure, you know about Long Beach Airport, the old Douglas Aircraft plant and Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose winding up there. Schipske takes readers back further.

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After Hurricane Jimena, It's Aquarium of the Pacific's Turn to Make a Big Baja Splash

By Matt Coker, Tuesday, Sep. 8 2009 @ 7:49AM
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Categories: Long Beach, Main
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Hurricane Jimena caused quite a splash in Baja California last week.

Aquarium of the Pacific hosts a Baja Splash of its own this weekend.

The eighth annual, family friendly Baja Splash Cultural Festival, which helps celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month and Mexican Independence Day, will be presented at the Long Beach attraction from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 12-13.

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Union's Hotel Boycott Wins Support . . . in the Future

By Matt Coker, Friday, Sep. 4 2009 @ 2:39PM
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Categories: Long Beach

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The Unite HERE Local 11 union's call for a boycott of the Hilton Long Beach hotel has already paid dividends.

Maybe . . . in four years.

The United Church for Christ has announced it will honor the boycott and move an event to another hotel.

"If a labor dispute is in effect as we come closer to our event date, it is most likely that we would . . . be unable to use the Long Beach Hilton as a General Synod hotel," United Church for Christ representative Edith Guffey tells Los Angeles Business Journal.

Score one for Unite HERE Local 11?

Uh, not yet, Norma Rae.

The church event is not scheduled until 2013, according to Hilton officials.

A battle to unionize the at the the 397-room hotel has been going on for more than a year--with charges and counter charges. Unite HERE claims hotel management has harassed workers who showed interest in joining the union. The hotel counters that in pushing for card-check voting, the union is denying workers the right to a secret-ballot election.

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