Whales, Wings—and Hot Air

Changin’ times are upon us, my friends. Talk to any old-timer of Long Beach and they will regale you with tales of summers long gone.

Gregg LaPenna, at his Lincoln beach shack, Lazar’s Glizzys, will give you memory after memory of how his family started the first beauty parlor here and many more tales of yore.

But things change.

Our City by the Sea incurred heavy debt through the bungling of empty lot use. And now we homeowners have to pay a ten percent tax increase for the failures. Someone back then didn’t step back and see the larger picture of our city’s problem, or did and didn’t care. But this could have been avoided—had they only stepped back for the larger view.

Now, new towers of concrete, steel and glass reach for the sky at Riverside Blvd. Sure tax abatements hurt us, but the spending by new residents will help some.

But there are larger pictures to be seen now too, even more important pictures, involving the survival of Long Beach and the creatures we share it with. We see, way too often, rotting whale carcasses on our shores. It never was that way. But, times are changing.

We can deal with it.

We just have to keep in mind—the step back—for the larger view:

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Be well,

Leebythesea