City of Long Beach

Publisher’s Tribute: Bob Foster in His Own Words

A personal mentor, Bob Foster, across two decades of meetings and interviews with our newsletters, is remembered less as a politician reacting to events than as an authentic, one-of-a-kind, systems thinker insisting on preparedness, institutional clarity, and physical reality. Whether speaking as President of Southern California Edison, Chair of the California ISO, or Mayor of Long Beach, Foster returned to the same uncomfortable truth: modern society depends on infrastructure that must be planned years in advance, paid for honestly, and governed without illusion.

Long Beach’s John Keisler on Post-COVID Economic Opportunities

John Keisler highlights the role of the federal government in safeguarding unemployment assistance for those affected by the virus, as well as opines on the importance of transit for Long Beach’s workforce going forward.

TNCs Challenge 20th-Century City Taxi Regulation: Reinventing Urban Mobility

Bill Rouse and Gabe Klein address changes to the urban ground transportation system that unregulated competition is bringing to cities.

Long Beach’s Robert Paternoster: A Queensway Bay Status Report

Positioning a Great City to be the Architect of its Own Future: Mayor Beverly O’Neil

Long Beach’s Queensway Bay Project Breaks Ground & Catalyzes Downtown