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Column | Newspaper Wars
The following is the final part in the Signal Hill Checkered Past series. The quotes in this piece do not reflect the views of the Signal Tribune Newspaper and are based off…
OP-ED: A Future for a Sustainable Industry
Cannabis taxes are a joke, but it’s not a laughing matter. The Long Beach Collective Association has been advocating for safe access and fair industry policy since 2010…so much and so little…
Column | Interesting Elections
The following is Part 3 in a new series by historian Claudine Burnett titled ‘Signal Hill’s Checkered Past’. In October 1959, Long Beach Independent reporter Bob Wells described how the 4500 residents…
Column | The Flintstone
The following is Part 2 in a new series by historian Claudine Burnett titled ‘Signal Hill’s Checkered Past’. In June 1962 an excited, pretty incoherent woman, called Long Beach Independent reporter Bob…
Column | The “Boss” of Signal Hill – Part 2
The following is a continuation of Part 1 of The “Boss” of Signal Hill. EDS NOTE: The following piece contains language that some might find offensive which has been censored as [expletive].…Loading…
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Column | The “Boss” of Signal Hill
The following is Part 1 in a new series by historian Claudine Burnett titled ‘Signal Hill’s Checkered Past’. Up until the mid 1980s, Signal Hill was described by many as the last frontier in this part of the Old West. The 2 ½ square mile town was an oil town whose inhabitants included roughnecks, gamblers,…
Commentary | Taking action to protect America’s nursing home residents against COVID-19
Nursing homes have become ground zero in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, with outbreaks causing high rates of illness and death among vulnerable residents living together in close quarters. That’s why the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has taken a series of aggressive actions over the last several months to protect nursing…
Column | Murder at the Hollywood Bowl: Remembering Long Beach’s Anthony Wilkins
On August 2, 1974, the life of Anthony (Tony) Wilkins’, a Black man from Long Beach, ended at the Hollywood Bowl. Wilkins was shot and killed by an off-duty Los Angeles police officer moonlighting as a security guard. Why? Wilkins had been attempting to prevent some of the Long Beach youth he was chaperoning from…
Column | Signal Hill Police: The Ron Settles Story
In September 1981, more than 200 demonstrators protested in front of a boarded up Signal Hill civic center over what many called “the murder” of Cal State University football running back Ron Settles. Settles, an African-American man was found hanged with a mattress cover in his cell June 2, about two hours after he was…
Commentary | Time for Cal State System to Stop Violating Sacred Native American Land
Last June, Governor Gavin Newsom took the bold step of owning up to California’s shameful history of “violence, maltreatment and neglect” against the Native American people who were the first to call California home. Months after Governor Newsom made his pledge to provide redress for the genocide and ethnocide native peoples have suffered under Western…Loading…
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