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Port of Long Beach

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2012

    Long Beach Cops Find House Filled With Pot, Shrooms, Peyote, Boa Constrictors, Tarantulas and a Scorpion

    Livin' the dream in the LBC! This place makes Animal House look like a sober-living facility: Long Beach police raided a home on Caspian Avenue last night that was fully stocked with more psychedelics and exotic reptiles than a Mojave Desert trailer park. Here's all the loot that cops pulled from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2012

    Steve Saggiani, Longshoreman at Long Beach Port, Crushed to Death by Container

    A man died in a freak container accident while on the job at the Port of Long Beach yesterday evening, City News Service reports. The coroner has identified the victim as 47-year-old longshoreman Steven Nicholas Saggiani. A Facebook profile that appears to belong to Saggiani lists him as a San Pedr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2011

    Occupy L.A. Port Protest Causes "Minimal" Disruption

    ​Several hundred Occupy L.A. demonstrators picketed this morning outside the Port of Long Beach, as part of a coordinated effort to shut down the West Coast ports.At least two people were arrested near the south entrance to Pier J. The Port of Long Beach diverted traffic to another gate."It was a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2011

    Occupy Ports: L.A. Occupiers to Halt Sea Commerce for 'Day Without Goldman Sachs'

    Though they've arguably got bigger things to worry about right now -- like where in the world they're going to live, come LAPD eviction -- Occupy L.A. organizers are chattering about another big day of action on December 12: Occupy Ports. (And they'll have to recuperate by January 2, when they plan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2011

    Villaraigosa's 'Clean Truck' Plan for Port of Los Angeles Fails in 9th District Court of Appeals: Greenwashing Failed to Impress

    Sparkling clean truck: Los Angeles greenwashing almost worked.​Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's controversial "clean trucks" plan to squeeze independent truckers out of the Port of Los Angeles as a favor to the Teamsters -- a green-washing plan he sold as merely a wholesome effort to r ... More >>

  • LA Life

    May 19, 2011

    Jesse Marquez: Thorn of Industry

    Sparkling clean truck: Los Angeles greenwashing almost worked.​Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's controversial "clean trucks" plan to squeeze independent truckers out of the Port of Los Angeles as a favor to the Teamsters -- a green-washing plan he sold as merely a wholesome effort to r ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    May 13, 2010

    Liz Larner and Catherine Opie at Regen Projects

    Sparkling clean truck: Los Angeles greenwashing almost worked.​Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's controversial "clean trucks" plan to squeeze independent truckers out of the Port of Los Angeles as a favor to the Teamsters -- a green-washing plan he sold as merely a wholesome effort to r ... More >>

  • Columns

    November 5, 2009

    Writing the Trains: Graffiti on Freight Cars

    Sparkling clean truck: Los Angeles greenwashing almost worked.​Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's controversial "clean trucks" plan to squeeze independent truckers out of the Port of Los Angeles as a favor to the Teamsters -- a green-washing plan he sold as merely a wholesome effort to r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2009

    Secret criminal billionaires: Big-rig cargo thefts worth $$$ are hitting L.A.'s port

    Huge big-rigs are quietly vanishing from the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach regularly, their cargo whisked away by sophisticated crime teams using regional leaders, fencers, "lumpers" and drivers who hijack the entire big-rig container, each stuffed with goods worth between $12,000 -- in ... More >>

  • News

    July 2, 2009

    Envirowimps: L.A.'s Big Green Groups Get Comfy

    Activists leave the street-fighting to the little guys

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Slain Pardo Victim Now a Deadbeat Renter Death may take a holiday, but not the landlord, as relatives of Alice Ortiz have discovered, according to an L.A. Daily News story. Ortiz was among nine Covina family members murdered by Bruce Pardo on Christmas Eve and now that the mourning's over, Ortiz's l ... More >>

  • News

    July 26, 2007

    A Heavy Load

    The ports say they have a plan for cleaner, safer trucks. But do they have a plan for the truckers?

  • LA Life

    May 10, 2007

    Jerilyn Lopez Mendoza

    Port in a Storm

  • News

    February 22, 2007

    The Town the Law Forgot

    An L.A. ’burb is mired in gangs, cartels and south-of-the-border-style politics

  • News

    June 1, 2006

    Wake Up and Vote

    L.A. Weekly endorsements for next Tuesday’s primary

  • News

    April 6, 2006

    Dirty Air Deals

    Smog fighters are about to cave to Big Business — again

  • News

    September 22, 2005

    Ports of Cough

    What it will take to clean up the mess caused by ships and trucks

  • News

    September 22, 2005

    Stench of Politics

    Industry money to the “Mod Caucus” fouls the fight for clean air

  • News

    September 22, 2005

    Solving Smog

    Our suggestions for ways out of this mess

  • News

    December 16, 2004

    Kissing Up to Arnold

    A blatant picture of influence peddling in the Governor’s Office

  • News

    July 10, 2003

    The List

    A blatant picture of influence peddling in the Governor’s Office

  • News

    March 27, 2003

    Port in a Storm

    Dealing with the polluting ways of world trade

  • News

    August 22, 2002

    Letters

    Dealing with the polluting ways of world trade

  • News

    May 27, 1999

    Shore Wars

    Will Long Beach bring back its breakers?

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