Posts Tagged as "community"

Long Beach to Ban Pay Day Loans

Nov. 24, 2012 / By
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By CSULB Student Reporter Mitch Atkinson..

California has highest poverty rate in the U.S., new Census Bureau report reveals

Nov. 20, 2012 / By
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From 89.3 KPCC

 

The US Census Bureau is testing a new way to measure poverty – and the new measurement indicates that California has the highest poverty rate in the nation...

Mobile Voices (VozMob)

Nov. 16, 2012 / By
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Mobile Voices (VozMob) is a platform for immigrant and/or low-wage workers in Los Angeles to create stories about their lives and communities directly from cell phones...

Eating Locally This Thanksgiving

Nov. 16, 2012 / By
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When Jimmy Ng introduced the process of planting and growing food to elementary students in North Long Beach, he was dumbstruck when they could not answer the question of where a piece of fruit came from...

LA Project, LB Problems: The SCIG Continues

Nov. 10, 2012 / By
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Scores of Long Beach children raised homemade frown-face signs to express their frustration with port officials at a special meeting held by Council Member James Johnson at Silverado Park Wednesday night...

Television’s New Name in Long Beach: PADNET

Nov. 2, 2012 / By
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In a city without it’s own local television station and only one Long Beach-based radio station, local media coverage is sparse...

Making the Case for Voting in Long Beach

Oct. 31, 2012 / By
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By VoiceWaves Guest Writer Tonia Reyes Uranga

I want to stress the importance of voting in this very important election this November 6th...

Khmer Girls in Action Makes Voting Easier

Oct. 26, 2012 / By
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Hoping to help voters make decisions that support a healthy Long Beach, Khmer Girls In Action created a voter guide...

Litter: The Ecological Degradation of North Long Beach

Oct. 25, 2012 / By
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By CSULB Senior Seminar Reporter Candace Marquez

Once a white working-class neighborhood, North Long Beach is now home to many ethnicities including African-Americans, Latinos, Samoans, and Tongans...

The Long Beach Community Database

Oct. 15, 2012 / By
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The Long Beach Community Database was developed as a community service by ReThinking Greater Long Beach to provide a publicly available common set of statistical information about Long Beach, California, for those interested in making Long Beach a better place for all residents to live and work...

A Path Less Pedaled in Long Beach

Sep. 21, 2012 / By
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Last week’s 11th bi-annual Pro-Bike, Pro-Walk (PBPW) conference came at a dynamic time for transportation in Long Beach...

Preventing Violence Through Park Activities

Sep. 7, 2012 / By
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The Summer Night Lights Program at Admiral Kidd Park came to an end the night of Aug...