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Column: Charlie Kirk is dead and more students got shot. Can we talk about gun reform?

As inflammatory rhetoric threatens more violence, not one Long Beach politician called for increased gun control. Despite what Kirk believed, we desperately need it.

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Views | When compassion is just a buzzword: The city’s homeless strategy prioritizes enforcement over humanity

Let’s be honest: “anti-camping” is a sanitized way of saying we intend to criminalize poverty.

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NYT critic reduces Long Beach’s Olympic closing ceremony to a ‘beach party’ — like that's a bad thing?

The 70-year-old critic from Connecticut doesn’t think a beach party featuring Snoop Dogg and other megastars is good enough for the Olympics. I disagree.