Redondo Beach Mayor Brand still the citizen-activist after a decade in office
Despite eight years on the council and two years as mayor, Redondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand continues to advocate like a political outsider.
On Local Government – Public safety and other services
The dominance of public safety in the budgets of our local governments indicates its importance to the people they serve. It also emphasizes the influence police and fire departments have over those governments. That influence can produce confrontative situations, making structural reform nearly impossible. For example, nobody can determine the number of police officers that […]
On Manhattan Government – Elections and the ‘Bridge to nowhere’
by Mark Burton Here are a few of the 2020 and beyond challenges facing the Manhattan Beach City Council: Storm water pollution: Storm water pollution will be a significant challenge for the City Council because of a federal mandate to keep storm water trash and pollution from entering the ocean. In 2020, the City Council […]
Letters to the Editor 1-2-2020
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South Bay Community Calendar 1-2-2020
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Volvo’s S90 T8 R-Design puts you in the lap of performance luxury
Beach Wheels Time for full disclosure: I am a big, big Volvo fan. I owned an S70 GLE for number of years and nearly wept the day I donated the dang thing to a charity. It’s funny how people get emotionally attached to their cars — especially here in L.A. I know that I do. […]
Coffee cart stolen from non-profit amid holidays
ICAN, the Redondo Beach-based non-profit that teaches job and life skills with people with developmental disabilities, is seeking to recover after a coffee cart and trailer — valued at nearly $20,000 — was stolen from their forthcoming new home in Torrance. “Our clients are super sad, some were crying when they found out,” said ICAN […]
RBPD rallies behind cancer diagnosis
Earlier this month, Redondo Beach Police Captain Jon Naylor received a request from his 11-year-old daughter Cait — she wanted him to shave her head. Getting home from a shift, he found out that a chunk of her hair had fallen out. Cait was near the end of her first month of chemotherapy to treat […]
Rosen MVP in Mustang Holiday Tourney win
Mustangs improve to 7-5 going in to Bay League play
In a season already filled with peaks – third place in the Pac Shores tournament – and valleys – a one-point overtime loss to El Segundo – the Mira costa boys basketball team was staring directly at the possibility of reaching a new low a week ago Friday night. The Mustangs trailed winless South Torrance […]
Astronaut Danny Olivas launches ‘Space for Everyone’
Danny Olivas was 248 miles above the Earth. As an astronaut and crew member on the STS-117 Space Shuttle Atlantis mission in 2007, Olivas was among the select few—562 out of the 108 billion people who have ever lived, to be exact—to ever see our earthly home whole, in truly full view, a blue […]
The last of the great patróns
The many lives of Pancho’s patriarch E. Abbott Lawrence E. Abbott Lawrence purchased Pancho’s restaurant on the corner of Highland and Rosecrans in North Manhattan Beach in 1975. The building had already endured a storied history. It was built in 1924 as a BBQ joint and fruit stand and survived through various iterations as […]