Distractions and Main Attractions By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor
The Long Beach Bayou Festival kicks off the summer music festival season on June 24-25 at Rainbow Lagoon Park.
Top Secret: The GOP Senate Health Care Attack p. 8 Bayou-Fest Headliner Louis Beltran Cruz and Music p. 9 p
The Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre.
[See Distractions, page 10]
China Shipping Moves To Long Beach By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor
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simultaneously by POLA Executive Director Gene Seroka at the port’s board meeting on June 15; the announcements left a familiar air of distrust and confusion in their wake. “This project is a long-standing example of how the port undermines the trust of the community,” said Kathleen Woodfield, vice president of the San Pedro Peninsula Homeowner’s Coalition, a plaintiff in the original China Shipping lawsuit. “Does POLA and C[hina] S[hipping] skate out of doing the mandatory court case settlement mitigation?” asked Jesse Marquez, founder of Coalition for Safe Environment, in an email, citing
signals of what was to come. “[The Natural Resources Defense Council] took the position of being patient and wait for the POLA to come with a plan to fix things. Now, we may get nothing.” Not so, NRDC senior attorney Melissa Lin Perella told Random Lengths News. “The CEQA document attaches to the permit or the lease,” she said. “It doesn’t move with the tenant.” Still, there are troubling unanswered questions. “What’s really going on with the move to begin with?” And “What are the consequences?” “China Shipping, and its future companies,
June 22 - July 5, 2017
hina Shipping is moving its operations to the Port of Long Beach, leaving the Port of Los Angeles which was the subject of a landmark lawsuit settled in 2003. The lawsuit forever altered how environmental reviews are done under the California Environmental Quality Act. But the underlying lease agreement remains. POLA has just released a supplemental environmental impact report, or SEIR, to compensate for 11 mitigation measures that were never implemented from the original EIR approved in September 2009, along lines set out in the settlement. These two announcements were made almost
Dance, Opera and Tall Ships Combine for Beyond the Waterfront p. 16
The Local Publication You Actually Read
In America, the holidays celebrating mother and fatherhood serve to bookend the end of spring and the beginning of summer. Love of nation and family motivated the establishment of these commemorative holidays. The United States first celebrated Mother’s Day in 1908, when Anna Jarvis hosted a memorial in honor of her mother, Ann Jarvis, a peace activist who cared for both Union and Confederate soldiers in the Civil War. Father’s Day was founded shortly after Mother’s Day and with a similar storyline. Sonora Smart Dodd wanted to honor her father, Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, a single parent who raised six children. This year, Father’s Day took on a greater significance with the grand reopening of Ken Malloy Harbor Regional Park and Councilman Joe Buscaino choosing his father to swear him in for his second term in office — a one-time-only 5-and-half-year term, no less. There is a sense that torch is being handed off, both locally and nationally. With everything happening in politics, the nation needs a break —
[See China Shipping, page 5]
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