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By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor

Donald Trump has been defeated at the ballot box by more than 5 million votes.

But, with more than 48% of the vote, despite a raging deadly pandemic, Trumpism is alive and well. Along with that is the larger host of maladies that birthed it — severe economic inequality, systemic racism, dysfunctional government along with a decaying public sphere, and selfish, unaccountable elites at war with each other.

There are glimmers of hope. Executive action can produce swift, significant change.

The American Prospect has identified 277 policies Joe Biden can enact through executive action contained in the Biden-Bernie Sanders unity task force document. The weekend after Election Day, Biden’s top priorities were revealed: rejoining the Paris climate accords and the World Health Organization, repealing the travel ban on Muslim-majority countries and reinstating Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the program allowing “dreamers,” who were brought to the United States undocumented as children, to remain in the country. Work on other executive actions has reportedly also begun. But legislative action remains less certain, as social divisions may only deepen with continued Republican opposition.

[See Trumpism, p. 13] Real News, Real People, Really Effective

Election Results:

The Local Breakdown of the Numbers

By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor

for Biden to Trump’s 5,822. Voter turnout was 50% and Biden garnered 74%.

In Torrance, 60,179 out of 92,750 registered voters voted. Of those, 36,129 went for Biden, while 21,836 went for Trump. Voter turnout was 65% and Biden garnered 60% of the vote.

In Lomita, 7,411 out of 13,141 registered voters voted. Of those, 4,251 went for Biden, while 2,893 went for Trump. Voter turnout was 56 % and Biden garnered 57% of the vote.

Carson’s first mayoral and city council election since converting to a district based electoral system resulted in City Councilwoman Lula Davis Holmes and City Councilman Jim Dear being the top two vote-getters with neither crossing the 50% threshold to avoid a runoff.

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It’s no surprise that California, with the exception of large, sparsely-populated swaths of Central and Northern California, went to President-elect Joe Biden. The surprises were instead reserved for the ballot initiatives and perhaps to a lesser extent, the Carson mayoral election and Los Angeles Unified School District’s board races.

Of 51,382 registered voters in San Pedro, 27,750 voted in the 2020 Nov. 3 General Election. Of those, 18,098 voted for former Vice President Joe Biden to become the 46th president to President Donald J. Trump’s 8,658. There was a 54.01% voter turnout. Biden garnered 65.22% to Trump’s 31.20%.

Of 20,208 registered voters in Wilmington, 8,175 voted. Of those, 6,133 voted for Biden to Trump’s 1,739. Voter turnout was 40% and Biden garnered 75% of the vote.

In Carson, 25,418 out of 50,153 registered voters, voted. Of those, 18,880 voted

[See Results, p. 8]

COVID-19 cases in the U.S. as of Nov. 11, 2020: 10,599,416 • Deaths: 246,173 • Deaths worldwide: 1,285,312 For local stats: www.randomlengthsnews.com

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Community Announcements:

Harbor Area COVID-19 Rapid Testing Pilot

LOS ANGELES — The County of Los Angeles has the capacity to test more than 21,000 people every day with plenty of appointments available seven days a week. Find free COVID-19 testing near you here, www.covid19.lacounty.gov/ testing/ or call 2-1-1.

Los Angeles city and county announced the collaboration of a project to study the use of inexpensive, rapid-results coronavirus tests among first responders and school-aged children — making LA one of the first metropolitan areas in America to create a large-scale pilot study of rapid tests in people with or without symptoms.

Details: www.lamayor.org/covid-19-rapid-testingpilot

Port of Long Beach Hosts How-to Workshop on Landscape Grants

Learn how to apply for funding for tree plantings and other landscaping projects to help mitigate port-related air quality and noise impacts during a virtual Community Grants Program workshop.

Potential applicants will be taught how to build a strong proposal and the key evaluation criteria that will be used during review.

Guidelines for the program can be found on the port website at www.polb.com/grants.

Time: 10 to 11:30 a.m. Nov. 16 Details: www.polb.webex.com/communitygrants-workshop

Small Business Assistance Grants in Carson

The City of Carson is partnering with the California Community Economic Development Association to provide financial assistance to small businesses impacted by COVID-19. Eligible businesses within Carson are invited to apply.

Details: www.carson.cceda.com

LB Offers Free In-Home Childcare Services to Residents

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LONG BEACH — Free in-home childcare services are being offered to Long Beach residents impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic through a new program launched by city government.

The Long Beach Childcare Program will provide working parents up to 40 hours of free childcare services seven days a week, 24 hours a day, based on a family’s care needs, including support for children with disabilities and special needs. The program will enable Long Beach parents to work days, evenings or weekends while ensuring that their children are being cared for from the safety and comfort of their home.

The city is now accepting applications for the program.

Details: pacific-gateway.org/WorkLBCARES.

Heal the Bay Storm Response Team

After the first rainfall of the season the stormwater creates a major source of pollution for our beaches, rivers and local watersheds.

To mitigate the impacts of this pollution, Heal the Bay is recruiting volunteers to join the Storm Response Team.

The team will remove trash and debris from Los Angeles County beaches during low tide.

Details: www.signup.e2ma/storm-responseteam

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Harbor Area Community Plan Updates

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The Harbor LA Community Plans refer to two Community Plan Areas north of the Los Angeles Harbor that are currently being updated: Harbor Gateway and WilmingtonHarbor City.

Key goals of the community plans update are: • Planning for future land use and development over the next 20 years • Addressing community issues related to land use • Applying the city’s new Zoning Code structure to the Plan Areas Details: www.storymaps.arcgis.com

Distribution of Community Development, Housing Funds Input Sought

The Los Angeles County Development Authority or LACDA invites residents of the [See Announcements, p. 4]

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Three Killed in Three Days in LA Harbor

By Hunter Chase, Reporter

The Los Angeles Police Department Harbor Division responded to three homicide reports within three days. This makes for a total of 14 homicides in Harbor Division in 2020 so far. In 2029 at this time, there were 16.

On the evening of Oct. 24, a man was fatally shot in the head when he stepped onto a dirt road outside his home near Quay Avenue and East Anaheim Street in Wilmington, said Capt.

Jay Mastick of the LAPD Harbor Division.

The incident took place after the victim had an argument with his mother, whom he lived with in an RV. Mastick said the shooter might have been his mother or one of the neighbors, or someone else entirely.

On Oct. 25, a 23-year-old woman was stabbed multiple times near the San Pedro Overlook Community Center on the 3600 block of South Gaffey Street, after she and the man she’d come with had a confrontation with another group. She was rushed to Harbor UCLA Medical Center, where she died. Mastick said the suspects might be gang members, but he did not believe her stabbing was related to gang activity.

On Oct. 26, two members of the Rancho San Pedro gang were shot on the 200 block of West 1st Street in downtown San Pedro. One man died and the other is recovering. Mastick said that this shooting was definitely gang-related.

Mastick said that three homicides in three days were unusual in such a small amount of time for the Harbor Division. He said the three homicides are not connected and that he is confident the division would solve them.

These homicides came on the tail of six

shootings in San Pedro that took place from Sept. 20 to Oct. 17, said Officer Maligi Nua Jr. at the Oct. 20 meeting of the Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council. Mastick said that the three homicides from Oct. 24 to 26 are not related to them.

The first shooting Nua mentioned was an officer involved shooting at Harbor Division Station on Sept. 29, which means an officer fired his or her weapon. In this case, the gun was fired by Sgt. Robin Aguire, who was the on-duty assistant watch commander. Aguire fired at a suspect named Jose Guzman, but did not hit him. Guzman had just allegedly assaulted Officer Anthony Freeman. Guzman punched and tackled Freeman, then stole Freeman’s gun and hit him in the head with it repeatedly, officials said. Guzman fled the station but was caught that night by other officers at Pacific Avenue and 17th Street.

The second shooting took place at 1001 S. Palos Verdes St., where an unknown suspect tried to shoot one car, but instead hit another car with two people in it, Nua said. No one was hit.

The third shooting was at 441 N. Centre St. Two suspects came from an alley and fired into a group, hitting two victims.

The fourth was a shooting in the back parking lot of the Vagabond Motel at 215 S. Gaffey St. on Oct. 1. There were multiple suspects, but they did not hit anyone. Harbor Division’s gang investigative unit is still working on this case, Nua said.

The fifth was at a housing development at 207 W. Santa Cruz St., where one person was

shot. Nua said that while the suspects have not been identified, the police have information that could lead to their identification. The gang investigative unit is working on this case.

The sixth was in the 400 block of West O’Farrell Street. A 16-year-old was shot while on his bike going westbound on O’Farrell from Mesa Street.

“I spoke to that victim, he was doing fine,” Nua said.

In addition, there was an incident of domestic violence at Oliver and Centre streets, where the suspect brandished a handgun, Nua said.

However, no shots were fired.

Nua said he expected three of the six shootings were gang-related, but stressed that this was just his opinion after speaking to gang investigators. He said that it could be related to the Rancho San Pedro gang, and some of the groups within it.

Based on information from gang investigators, the department does not believe any of these shootings are related to recent shootings in Wilmington.

“That’s just an ongoing suspicion when it comes down to gang crime in both areas,” Nua said. Nua said that Wilmington recently had four shootings, and from the investigations of these shootings, the police have recovered six handguns. However, there have not been any arrests or recovered guns from any of the mentioned shootings, except for Guzman, who was arrested.

Despite the recent crimes, San Pedro is [See Killings, p. 3]

‘Smilin’ Jack’ During COVID-19

By Arturo Garcia-Ayala

During the month of October, there is a familiar face at the Phillips 66 Los Angeles Refinery located in Wilmington, California.

A Jack-o’-lantern face spanning 80-feet long is painted on a 3.3 million gallon orange storage tank. Known as “Smilin’ Jack” a name recognized by those who live or work in the Harbor Area communities of San Pedro, Harbor City, Wilmington, Lomita and Carson. It has been declared, “the World’s Largest Jack-o’lantern” by Roadside America. This 68-year old Halloween decoration can be seen from Palos Verdes peninsula hilltop.

The refinery’s management has carried on the tradition since 1952, using the same design until this year when it was decided to paint a white medical mask over the black toothy smile as an acknowledgement of the current COVID-19 pandemic.

“It is not meant to be a political statement but a reflection of the times we live in.” said Juliana Moreno, the public affairs and community relations advisor. In this charged social climate, any contentious message post, article, comment, illustration or gesture can be interpreted as “politically offensive.” To those who visited for an up-close look at this recognizable symbol of Halloween, they appreciated this gesture of

“Smilin’ Jack,” an orange storage tank painted to look like a Jack-O-Lantern. Photo by Arturo Garcia-Ayala

levity.

The refinery’s management arranged a drivethrough event on Oct. 30. Hundreds of vehicles lined up along Anaheim Boulevard until they were ushered in by local law enforcement and on-site security guards. Employees gave away caramel popcorn along with other souvenirs from a 6-foot distance using nets adhering to “pandemic protocol.” A total of 8,460 people attended, mostly families with children who were not able to do the traditional door to door “trick-or-treat” candy gathering this year for their health safety. Other restrictions included

wearing face coverings at all times, visitors had to remain in their vehicles and the occupants had to be of the same household. The mood of the visitors as they drove passed “Smilin’ Jack” was predominately joyful. Visitors used their various devices from handheld cameras to mobile phones to record their experiences. According to Juliana Moreno, 2,100 cars with each containing 4 to 6 people on average visited.

The Jack-o’-lantern is only painted on the orange colored tank once a year for Halloween then removed in November.

SP Man Charged With Threatening Activist Group

By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor Last month, a San Pedro man who threatened a group of protestors calling themselves the “Good Trouble Brigade,” was charged with criminal threats by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

Timothy James Carroll, known around town as “Yo” faces six felony counts of criminal threats alleged to be hate crimes as well as one felony count each of possession of a firearm by a felon: .357 Magnum, unlawful possession of ammunition and possession of a leaded cane.

Deputy District Attorney Paul Kim of the Hate Crimes Section said Carroll also faces one misdemeanor count of possessing a controlled substance, hydrocodone.

The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charges last week and is scheduled to return on Nov. 13.

Carroll allegedly threatened the small group of peaceful protestors holding a memorial on a public San Pedro sidewalk this past Sept. 4 and 11, the prosecutor said.

Bail is set at $190,000. If convicted as charged, the defendant faces a possible maximum sentence of more than 12 years in state prison.

[Killings, from p. 2]

Killings

actually down by 12.7% in Part 1 crimes in general for 2020 when compared to the previous year. Part 1 crimes include homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny and vehicle theft. Burglaries are down by 50%, burglaries and thefts from vehicles were down by 25%, and grand theft autos increased slightly.

In the area within the boundaries of the Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council, the numbers look even better. Part 1 crimes are down by 30%, violent crimes are down by 40%, and

Wilmington Waterfront Promenade Breaks Ground

On Oct. 29, Assemblyman Mike Gipson (left), LA City Councilman Joe Buscaino, Harbor Commissioner Lucia Moreno-Linares, Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka and LA Department of Water and Power General Manager Marty Adams put shovels in the ground to mark the groundbreaking of the Wilmington Waterfront Promenade.

The $71 million Wilmington Waterfront Promenade Project, designed by Sasaki, involves both the realignment of Water Street parallel to the existing railroad tracks, and street improvements.

The nine-acre promenade

development will also include construction of a community park adjacent to Banning’s Landing Community Center, along with

other improvements such as irrigation, signage and furnishings such as public seating, bike racks and drinking fountains.

property crime is down by 24%, Nua said.

Nua said that within the council’s boundaries there were 25 incidents of aggravated assaults during September 2020. These do not always involve weapons.

“When we speak of assaults, we’re not talking solely about shootings. We’re talking about domestic violence and just simple assaults that are out on the streets,” Nua said.

In addition, property crimes within the council’s boundaries were down 45% in September 2020, compared to September 2019, Nua said. Grand theft auto was down by 20%, and burglaries and thefts from vehicles were down by 22%.

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November 12 - 23, 2020

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Inconsistency Muddies Transparency:

LBPD Use-of-Force Complaints

By Greggory Moore, Columnist

November 12 - 23, 2020

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How many use-of-force complaints were filed against Long Beach Police Department officers in 2017?

The answer: 31 … or 35 … or 39 … or 104.

Why so many possibilities? Because in the City of Long Beach there is no consistent definition of what constitutes “force” or a “complaint,” so tracking such incidents from the outside is highly convoluted, if not impossible.

A bit of background on my numbers: Each year, the Citizen Police Complaint Commission, or CPCC, a chartered commission which “investigates allegations of police misconduct” in order to “provide feedback and input to the City Manager, Mayor, and City Council,” is required to issue a report generally documenting its investigations and recommendations. Although the CPCC failed to meet this requirement within the past four years, in July 2020 it finally issued the missing reports, along with 2019’s. For 2017, under “Allegation Breakdown for Cases Opened,” we find “Use of Force - 104.” (An additional number, 39, also emanates from the CPCC, but we’ll get to that.)

While the LBPD does not issue annual reports on such items, I obtained their number, 31, via a Public Records Act Request for “the total number of use-of-force complaints filed against LBPD officers between Jan. 1, 2017 and Dec. 31, 2019.” However, a portion of an LBPD document published by The Long Beach Post in August lists the number of “Complaints Alleging Force” as 35.

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Illustration by Brenda Lopez

The year 2017 is no fluke: the same variety of numbers exists every year. Why? From conversations with CPCC Manager Patrick Weithers and four members of the LBPD (Commander Dina Zapalski, Lt. Darren Lance of Internal Affairs, and Public Information Officers Allison Gallagher and Arantxa Chavarria), I came away with a sense that inconsistent bureaucracy is muddying the transparency that the city and its police force promise in the post-George Floyd era.

A snippet of my conversation with the LBPD as I questioned the difference between the numbers they gave me and those printed by The Post:

Me: I’m looking at a row [in The Post article] that says “Complaints Alleging Force.”

Lance: Right. What does that mean?

Me: I think that’s a use-of-force complaint.

Lance: No. To illustrate, he explains that an officer using “improper handcuffing technique […] would result in an allegation of force, because it’s related to our force policy — but it is not an excessiveforce complaint. […] You’re asking [in the PRA Request] about ‘use-of-force complaints,’ so, a complaint about a use of force. That could mean a lot of things. For us, it means: somebody has alleged excessive force.”

Lance himself sees problems with the terminology. “An excessive-force complaint is not a ‘Complaint Alleging Force,’” he repeated.

“That term we are not going to use anymore, I hope, because it’s confusing people.”

“It’s very convoluted,” added Zapalski of the LBPD reporting methodology in general. “It took me 10 months to understand it.”

Linguistic ambiguity aside, to some degree this explains why The Post’s numbers are higher than the ones the LBPD gave me. But then why are the CPCC numbers so much higher than both, even though (as the CPCC notes) “two, independent, concurrent investigations […] take place with every complaint filed[:] the CPCC investigation and the LBPD Internal Affairs (IA) investigation”?

It’s because the LBPD and the CPCC use conflicting, counterintuitive methods for tallying complaints. To illustrate, let’s say I am pulled over for suspicion of DUI, and despite my compliance Officer Krupke tases me, while Officer Mayberry clubs me over the head with his flashlight and then shoots me in the leg. When I file my complaint, the LBPD will count this as a single complaint despite the fact that I’m complaining about the actions of two officers, while the CPCC will count this as three complaints, since I’m complaining about three separate actions (use of taser, flashlight, and gun).

During my initial conversation with the LBPD, both Lance and Chavarria stated that the LBPD’s methodology is state mandated.

However, in response to my request for supporting documentation, the LBPD provided me with the State of California’s Civilians’ Complaints Against Peace Officers guidelines, wherein the only instruction for counting methodology is as follows:

The primary unit of count should be the actual event. An event is defined as an occurrence of alleged misbehavior which has unity of time, place, and behavior. In some circumstances where there are multiple alleged victims, consideration should be given to modifying the counting procedure to account for the number of victims.

In response to my suggesting that this could also be interpreted to mean that during a given incident each officer’s action is “an occurrence of alleged misbehavior” (in my example, Krupke’s tase would be one such occurrence, while Mayberry’s clubbing and shooting would be either one or two more) and asking whether the LBPD could provide me with its rationale for believing and acting otherwise (for example, an opinion from the city attorney), Gallagher replied only that the LBPD’s methodology is employed “[in order] to remain consistent to the greatest extent possible and to remain objective in how we count the numbers.”

Convoluted as all of this may be, considering that both the LBPD and CPCC generate their numbers from the same set of complaint narratives, by boiling the CPCC number down LBPD-style — that is to say, every complaint filed counts as one incident, regardless of how [See Complaints, p. 5]

Community Announcements:

Harbor Area

[Announcements, from p. 2] unincorporated Los Angeles County communities and participating agency recipients to join a virtual Community Meeting to seek input for the county’s 2021-2022 Action Plan. The Action Plan will disperse about $33 million in federal housing and community development funds for projects that improve community facilities and infrastructure, provide childcare programs, services for seniors and homeless individuals.

Time: 1 to 2 p.m. Nov. 14 Details: yourvoicecounts.lacda.org

Garcetti Announces A New RFI For Zero Emissions Truck Program

LOS ANGELES — Mayor Eric Garcetti Oct. 30, announced a new Request for Information or RFI to solicit proposals to expand the use of zeroemission technology at the Port of Los Angeles.

The RFI will help advance the transition of all drayage trucks serving the San Pedro Bay port complex to zero emission by 2035.

The RFI invites the private sector to provide input to the POLA as it explores strategies to accelerate the development and adoption of zeroemission trucks at scale. Responses must be submitted to Tricia Carey at tcarey@portla.org no later than 4 p.m. Jan. 7, 2021.

Details: www.tinyurl.com/pola-rfi-document

LA Housing Element Webinar

Los Angeles City Planning is hosting a webinar to gather feedback on the next phase of The Plan to House LA. These concepts will guide how LA’s housing decisions are made for the next eight years. Webinars will also be broadcast on Facebook on the Los Angeles City Planning Facebook page at, www.facebook.com/ Planning4LA Time: 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Nov. 18 Details: https://register.gotowebinar.com/ register

Register for Community Grants Workshops

The Port of Long Beach is hosting two public workshops to help determine the fiscal year 202224 priorities for the Community Grants Program.

This is in effort to lessen the effects of port operations on the surrounding area.

Potential grant applicants and others are invited to attend. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the meetings will be virtual. You will receive instructions on participating via computer or phone.

Time: 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Nov. 17 Details: www.community-grants-workshop-nov-17. polb.com/grants.

[Complaints, from p. 4]

Complaints

many uses-of-force or officers are named therein — in theory we should still be able to arrive at a consensus for how many complaints are filed during a given calendar year. At least that’s what the CPCC’s Patrick Weithers told me when we first spoke. Weithers is the person who clued me in to the differences between the LBPD’s and CPCC’s tabulation methods, and he was willing to take a deep dive into the CPCC numbers in an effort to retabulate them in the LBPD style, saying that once he did so, “Overall, they should be pretty similar.”

But they’re not. For 2017, he found the CPCC’s number (104) came from 39 total incidents — eight more than the LBPD list. For 2018, he found 54 incidents — 12 more than the LBPD. And for 2019 (data set incomplete for reasons I still don’t understand), 23 — six more than the LBPD. “Unfortunately, I am not sure if the LBPD numbers are accurate or not, as I am unsure how they track their numbers,” Weithers stated when shown that the numbers still didn’t add up. “Looking at the chart [supplied to Random Lengths News by the LBPD] that mentions ‘Excessive Force,’ that could possibly be one of various categories of force that are tracked by them. Again, I am not sure if they may track uses of force in different ways.”

The CPCC’s methodology has its own problems. For example, Weithers says “case opened” is basically synonymous with “complaint filed,” both of which refer to “allegations” as per the CPCC method — and so my Krupke/ Mayberry example would generate three “cases opened”/“complaints filed”/“allegations.”

However, elsewhere in the CPCC annual reports “case” is synonymous with “incident” à la the LBPD methodology — in which case my Krupke/Mayberry example counts as one “case” with three “allegations.”

“They [i.e., the CPCC] classify their complaints, and we classify our complaints,” Lance said. “It’s very subjective. […] If a citizen says it’s excessive force or if they’re complaining about the force that was used, we categorize it as an excessive-force complaint. […] The CPCC gets the same complaint, and they categorize it how they categorize it. We don’t get their

category, they don’t get our category; all we get is the narrative, ‘The complainant says this and that,’ and a phone number to call them.”

While both the LBPD and CPCC say they recognize the convolutions in their methodologies and agree that consistency across investigative bodies would aid transparency, neither seems poised to change. Chavarria says that although she agrees “100%” that consistency would be beneficial, “that is not up to us. […] We follow the [state] mandate. If [the CPCC is] not, that’s something you would need to explore with them, not us.”

Weithers offers a more mixed answer: “Without understanding our processes … [the inconsistency] causes a lot of confusion for people. [But] I don’t see anything wrong with us tracking things in different ways. We are supposed to be independent from the LBPD and therefore have our own processes when it comes to doing things, including tracking.”

For now, at least, the answer to the question of how often citizens complain about the LBPD’s use of force wholly depends on who you ask and the verbiage you choose. Perhaps this is not the best path to increased transparency.

State Files to Join China Shipping Lawsuit

By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and the California Air Resources Board filed a motion on Nov. 4 to intervene in the most recent China Shipping Terminal lawsuit, to protect the local communities from air pollution. That lawsuit, filed by the South Coast Air Quality Management District on Sept. 16, asked for the Port of LA’s newly approved environmental impact report to be set aside, citing a long litany of failures to meet the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act. Becerra’s press release cited two in particular: the failure to include all feasible mitigation measures to reduce environmental impacts, and the failure to provide an enforcement mechanism to implementation— such as incorporating the measures into China Shipping’s lease agreement.

“Far too often, modest income and minority communities bear the brunt of environmental pollution and the resulting health risks,” said Becerra. “That’s why we have laws like CEQA

that require companies to do everything they can to mitigate the environmental impacts of their projects. But without enforceability, these mitigation measures are just words on paper. If we’re going to secure a clean, healthy, and safe environment for all Californians, we need more than words. We need accountability. Today’s action aims to hold China Shipping and the Port of Los Angeles accountable.”

“The City and Port of Los Angeles have allowed China Shipping to tear up the environmental mitigation promises that got them their permits to expand, while doing nothing to stop the company from pumping excessive amounts of pollution into nearby communities,” said CARB Chair Mary D. Nichols. “This must stop.”

AQMD was pleased to have two new parties join their lawsuit. “China Shipping has refused to implement actions that were previously required in a 2008 EIR to reduce their impacts

from air pollution on nearby environmental justice communities,” spokesperson Bradley Whitaker told Random Lengths. “The city’s recent decision to certify a Supplemental EIR not only removed many of those stronger mitigation measures, but again failed to include an enforcement mechanism to hold China Shipping accountable for meeting the mitigation obligations,” he added. “The motion to intervene underscores the significance of our concerns.”

“We are disappointed that the California Attorney General and CARB have joined the lawsuit,” Port of LA spokesperson Phillip Sanfield told Random Lengths. “More litigation likely means more delays in our efforts to usher in one of the cleanest non-automated container facilities in the world — one that clears the way to introduce cleaner equipment while preserving good-paying jobs.”

However, a note accompanying the motion said it “will not impair or impede the prompt resolution of the issues presented in this action.”

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November 12 - 23, 2020

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A National Sigh of Relief The counting may be over but…

By James Preston Allen, Publisher

On Saturday, Nov. 7, they were celebrating in Philadelphia, as well they should. It is perhaps there that the Joe Biden/Kamala Harris ticket got the number of votes needed to push them over the line to win the last of the Electoral College votes needed to win the 2020 election. Has the republic been saved? Temporarily perhaps.

The nation really did need to take a much-needed break from the Trump reality TV presidency — so take a long deep breath. What is Dr. Anthony Fauci going to prescribe to this nation now? Perhaps it is some Post-Trump-Stress therapy and mental deconditioning for all those gaslighted true believers who still think the “election was stolen.”

The damage that Trump has inflicted upon our republic is going to take a long time to cure, heal and then inoculate us from future infections, much like the COVID-19 pandemic and yet no one is working on the political vaccination. Is Joe Biden the cure for what ails America or just a placebo? Whatever he is, he seems undaunted by Trump’s refusal to admit defeat.

While the celebrations are breaking out all across this nation, it’s far too early to be singing “Ding dong the witch is dead” as he and many of his Republican allies have not conceded, nor do I expect him to any time soon. Trump may just burn down the White House before being dragged out by his heels.

And yet the slim majority

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Trump’s unfitness for office would seem readily apparent to all across America. While the coronavirus daily infection rates are spiking — surpassing 100,000 per day —Trump goes golfing while President-Elect Joe Biden organizes the pandemic response team. Trump is replacing career staff at the Pentagon with loyalists, while Biden moves ahead with a transition plan.

Yet some 47.5 % of the voters still believe Trump rather than Biden is the answer to the needs of this nation. This, after all of his lies, deceptions, impeachment and outright corruptions have been exposed. These true believers just couldn’t vote against this con man. It really makes me wonder about the intelligence of nearly half of the country and the media they are consuming. Of course, we all know what Trump thinks of “the media.” All of the mainstream media outlets, including his favorite — Fox News — have called the election for Biden/Harris. This is

the reality even as Trump launches 100 lawsuits to challenge the popular vote.

Even here in the working class, union sympathizing neighborhoods in the San Pedro harbor area, where one would think that Democrats and progressives have a huge advantage, some 8,658 out of 27,750 of our neighbors quietly voted for this idiot-in-chief. While these voters are in the minority — a minority that exists all across this southern region of Los Angeles County —it’s a revelation that still comes as a stunning surprise.

You see, Trump didn’t receive a majority of votes in any precinct from Manhattan Beach to Palos Verdes, and from San Pedro to Long Beach except for one — the City of Rolling Hills — where he won by only 106 votes. Even Rancho Palos Verdes and Rolling Hills Estates each gave Biden 57%. This of course challenges the common misconception that The Hill is a bastion of conservatism. The political demographics may be shifting.

What annoys me most, however, is that more than 31% of San Pedro voters voted orange and that the only robust debate about the candidates and the issues took place on few Facebook pages like All Politics San Pedro. The page is administered by Scott Carter, a local insurance broker. This page is sort of like the Alamo of Republican Trumpian xenophobia. I had the honor to be attacked by several of their members before the election and then summarily banned from their page when I accused them of slandering me. They often were ranting about censorship by social media and then they banned me — go figure.

On Nov. 5, Mr. Carter writes: Hi Guys and Gals — Facebook is threatening to take down our site or severely restrict it for the following reasons: Please check to see if your information is questionable before posting. Facebook Warning, FYI: “To fight false news, Facebook pushes misleading content farther down in News Feed and provides additional articles on the same topic.

If a group repeatedly shares false news, Facebook may push all of that group’s content down in News Feed, which may mean fewer people visit the group. Facebook may also stop suggesting that people join the group.”

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restrictive social media site in the future and do both places. I will advise you when.

I find it curious that Carter feels no regret at censoring his neighbors like me and others, yet objects when it’s done to him for the very reasons that even Fox News and other more mainstream media are censoring Trump’s misinformation.

Treating outright lies and false information as

equal to fact checked reporting is just wrong.

This false equivalency offered in various media between facts and lies is what has given Trump’s true believers the ammunition to defend the lunacy of the last four years. I’m afraid that it’s not going to end with the election of Joe Biden as a more normal president any time soon.

Affordable Housing:

The Next Step in Ending Homelessness

By Amanda Perez and Molly Duenow

These days, it seems that there is little that people can agree upon. Even in an interwoven community like San Pedro, there exists an undeniable array of thoughts, opinions, and ideologies that the residents perpetuate. Yet in this division, there is still unity; many of these locals find themselves with employment through the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) in the Port of Los Angeles (POLA), which provides 150,000 jobs in the greater Los Angeles area according to the POLA website. In the not so distant past, the ILWU truly believed that “an injury to one is an injury to all,” yet the reality of that statement fails to come into practice locally when it comes to those experiencing homelessness in San Pedro.

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San Pedro also consists of a staggering number of community members who are struggling to have their basic needs met. Los Angeles County data reports that the number of people experiencing homelessness in San Pedro is 622, which rose 24% from last year’s count of 501. In the last year, the San Pedro homeless population skyrocketed, and the sheltered population declined from 118 to 83 people, a 30% drop, suggesting that more people are experiencing unsheltered homelessness. So what can be done to help our struggling community members?

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funded temporary homeless shelters, with two opening this year. While this is an understandable and solid first step, the stumbling block is hiding in plain sight — “temporary.”

Research continues to show that long-term housing assistance reduces homelessness and provides a much more cost-effective option as opposed to shelters and other institutional care.

Long-term, affordable housing is not only the most promising option when it comes to both ending and preventing homelessness, but it is also an effective way to improve the community at large.

A report released by Enterprise Community Partners, Impact of Affordable Housing on Families and Communities: A Review of the Evidence Base, highlights the many studies that show that affordable housing can actually increase property values and tax revenues and improve quality of health, education, and neighborhoods overall — all factors which impact economic mobility.

With Los Angeles County recently taking the reigning title of least affordable market in the nation, improving economic mobility for all is crucial in mitigating homelessness. Longterm, affordable housing can help more people currently experiencing homelessness end the cycle, as well as reduce the likelihood that more at-risk families become homeless, which is especially important considering the upward

trend in San Pedro’s homeless population.

While there are plans in place to transform the long-time vacant San Pedro Courthouse into a mixed-use housing development, only 20% of the units will qualify as affordable housing units and the rest will remain marketrate housing units. If community members want to eliminate homelessness in San Pedro, more affordable housing is the most effective means to do so.

Temporary homeless shelters can be solid safe havens for those experiencing homelessness while they work towards more permanent housing, but the fact remains that more affordable housing is the next essential step. Do not stand idly by. Now more than ever our voices are being heard, and you can use your voice to show your support for affordable housing in San Pedro. Attend a San Pedro Neighborhood Council Meeting.

Advocate.

Write to City Councilman Joe Buscaino, Mayor Eric Garcetti, and Governor Gavin Newsom about the need for federal support for affordable housing. Remind them that there are too many of your community members who are hurting and that “an injury to one, is an injury to all.”

Amanda Perez is a San Pedro native and Master of Social Work candidate from the University of Southern California. Molly Duenow is a San Diego resident and Master of Social Work candidate from the University of Southern California.

RANDOMLetters Trump’s Hubris

Regardless of the election results, the Presidency of Donald Trump will be over by the spring of 2021 if the Democrats win the United States Senate.

Trump was impeached for soliciting aid from Ukraine to debase Joe Biden. He was only saved by a Republican-dominated Senate. He would stand no such fortune in the hands of a Senate controlled by Democrats.

Assuming Trump remains in office either by winning the election or by way of a complying Attorney General Barr, he will be subject to continuing claims of violating his oath of office. An active House might simply impeach him for violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution. On July 25 of this year a US District Court Judge permitted a suit to continue claiming such a violation. Another threat is the New York District Attorney pursuing Trump for possible banking frauds.

It is doubtful that Trump and his inner circle are not aware of the danger facing him, win or lose.

Trump has for four years played to a base that at times seems cultish.

Why Trump never sought to widen his base support that would have protected him from the pending catastrophes he and his family are

exposed to will remain a question that will cause debate by historians for years to come.

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Supporters of Humanity

Love and always read your column and the paper. I don’t live in San Pedro, but I’ve been there and I am a long-time subscriber to Random Lengths. That said, regarding your column of Oct. 29-Nov. 11, 2020: Please don’t give up on the ILWU. I’ve studied the union for 51 years, and I assure you that the overwhelming majority of ILWU members are still supporters of the party of humanity. There may be a few people who complain, but the union is still the best and the most

democratic collective bargaining organization around. It will always be there when the chips are down.

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Thanks From Long Beach

This is long past due … I’m a businessman, 76 yrs old. [I’ve] resided in five European and Middle East countries in my career — and yes — still working.

These past four years have been quite a ride, not knowing sometimes what to say to my long time Middle Eastern, Australian and other clients.

So my Thanks is for your column that my wife and I have looked forward to for some time, a breath of fresh air every week.

Hope all continues well with you and yours, Oscar and Anne Gallo Long Beach

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Election Results

Davis-Holmes received 10,476 votes to Dear’s 9,675 (or Davis-Holmes 32% to Dear’s 30%). Mayor Albert Robles placed third with only 22% of the vote.

In the Los Angeles Unified school board race, Tanya Ortiz-Franklin won handily with 49% of the vote. OrtizFranklin won Carson (54% to 31%), Lomita (48.01% to 28%), Rancho Palos Verdes (44 %to 32%) and San Pedro (43.73% to 38.14%) by wide-margins, while Patricia Castellanos won Wilmington (44.60% to 45.54%) by the slimmest of margins.

Prop. 14

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Authorizes bonds to continue funding stem cell and other medical research.

A “yes” vote supports issuing $5.5 billion general obligation bonds for the state’s stem cell research institute and making changes to the institute’s governance structure and programs.

San Pedro, Torrance and Lomita voted no on Prop. 14, opposing the issuance of $5.5 billion general obligation bonds for the state’s stem cell research institute. But San Pedro’s vote was the closest with 46.11% voting yes and 46.90% voting no. Wilmington, the City of Carson and Long Beach voted “yes” in support of Prop. 14.

Prop. 15

San Pedro (51.57% to 43.11%), Torrance (55.25% to 40.24%) and Lomita (56.16% to 38.66%) voted together to say no to Proposition 15 which would have amended the state constitution to require commercial and industrial properties to be taxed based on their market value, rather than their purchase price.

Prop. 16

San Pedro (52.36% to 41.39%), Torrance

(58.30% to 35.84%) and Lomita (57.63% to 35.76%) voted together to say no to Prop. 16, which asked California voters to amend the Constitution of California to repeal 1996’s Proposition 209, which banned the use of affirmative action in California’s public sector. Wilmington, Carson and Long Beach voted in favor of Prop. 16.

Prop. 17

Allows parolees to vote.

Strong majorities in San Pedro, Wilmington, Carson, Torrance, Lomita and Long Beach voted yes on Prop 17, the ballot measure would amend the state constitution to allow people with felonies who are on parole to vote.

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Prop. 18

San Pedro, Wilmington, Carson and Long Beach voted in favor of allowing 17-yearolds to vote in primary and special elections if they will turn 18 by the subsequent general election. Torrance and Lomita voted no.

Prop. 19

Protection for the elderly and the disabled after wildfires.

San Pedro (47.53% to 45.97%) sided with Torrance (52.67% to 40.50%) and Lomita (49.97% to 42.85%), albeit by comparatively slim margins, said no to Prop. 19, which would have permitted homeowners who are 55, severely disabled, or whose homes were destroyed by wildfire or disaster, to transfer their primary residence’s property tax base value to a replacement residence of any value, anywhere in the state. Wilmington, Carson and Long Beach voted yes.

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Strong majorities in San Pedro, Wilmington, Carson, Torrance, Lomita and Long Beach voted no on Prop. 20, which would have restricted parole for certain felonies.

Prop. 20 would have added crimes to the list of violent felonies for which early parole is restricted; recategorize certain types of theft and fraud crimes as wobblers (chargeable as misdemeanors or felonies); and require DNA collection for certain misdemeanors.

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Watch Daisy on YouTube, https:// tinyurl.com/DaisyPlay

An image from the Daisy ad made for Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidential campaign and broadcast on Sept. 7, 1964. Inset: Devid Nevell as Tony Schwartz, the ad’s creator, in Daisy, a virtual play directed by caryn desai.

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attack ads that didn’t feel like a slippery slope.”

“What we do is going to play on 8 million televisions across the country. Not only is the opportunity unprecedented, but so is the responsibility.”

By design, Daisy is a play without either a moral center or a bad guy. All of the characters are ambitious, but none is amoral. All have blind spots, yet all have some idea what they’re doing. Devine deserves credit for this, as well as for not trying to provide answers for the unanswerable. “The best we can do is make choices for an imperfect world,” Schwartz says.

As an online production, although Daisy is a decent first stab for ICT — and you definitely feel like you’re watching a real play and not simply a video exercise masquerading as such — it’s a bit puzzling why it isn’t a bit better. Although this is an archived live performance, it contains no less than mid-scene five edits, three or four of which are noticeable glitches. And that doesn’t include a flubbed line so obviously wrong in a nontrivial way that there’s no excuse for leaving it as-is, since they’re doing edits, anyway.

Perhaps a tougher nut to crack is the stasis. Because Devine’s script is innately static, this was going to be a shortcoming even were ICT staging Daisy in its usual Beverly O’Neill Theater digs, and so the problem of having actors isolated from each other in their own rectangular boxes doesn’t hurt as much as it might for a script with more physical action and interaction. Still, it doesn’t seem like director caryn desai has quite yet figured out how to turn the limitations of virtual theatre into inspirations. (I’m not saying I have, either, but I’ll know it when I see it.)

What cannot be denied is that Daisy is a timely choice for this election year, where the Republican in the race ain’t got nothing on Goldwater, and the cerebral sophistication of the Daisy spot is a far cry from today’s political milieu and the attacks that even relatively sober candidates routinely unleash on each other. So if you feel like ruminating on the road that got us here, Daisy is not a bad place to start.

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f you don’t know The Beatles, you cannot possibly understand the genesis of rock ’n’ roll. But in both politics and advertising, the Daisy spot is even more seminal, more original. Sean Devine’s Daisy, which makes its California premiere online in International City Theatre’s first COVID-era production, dramatizes the creation of the 60-second spot that revolutionized political campaigning and whose reverberations still move us today.

Aaron, Sid and Louise (Matthew Floyd Miller, Alex Dabestani, and Erin Anne Williams, respectively) are star ad execs at Doyle Dane Bernbach, which has just been hired by the White House to create an ad campaign for Lyndon Johnson’s 1964 presidential run. Although television may have been a big part of the prior three races, LBJ’s election committee wants something new, something more aggressive — especially after the Republicans nominate extremist Barry Goldwater, who has publicly professed his willingness to use atomic weapons in Vietnam and elsewhere.

Enter Tony Schwartz (David Nevell), an agoraphobic sound designer who’s ahead of his time. He knows that combining the right sonic elements in the right way can “bring to the surface what’s already deep inside,” just as Louise knows a killer ad idea when she hears it — in this case, the juxtaposition of a little girl counting flower petals, followed by an ominous countdown preceding a nuclear explosion.

Despite never mentioning Goldwater, from the moment of its one and only TV broadcast on Sept. 7, 1964, the Daisy spot was considered the first attack ad. Daisy is a meditation on the Pandora’s box it opened, with characters taking turns questioning and justifying their actions in language that at times is a bit too on-the-nose: “Tell me, where is the ethics in attack ads?”

“Tell me that when Cliff [an LBJ adviser played by Phillip J. Lewis] was talking about

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hanksgiving, as we observe it today, doesn’t have much in common with the original feast of 1621. The temperature of the vibe between the Pilgrims and Wampanoag was above comfort level at the dinner table, with some participants arriving ready to rumble.

Come to think of it, maybe today’s Thanksgiving table hasn’t strayed too far, being notable for bringing together people from warring political tribes to break bread together, with notoriously mixed results. And this election year, especially, it seems like only social distancing measures might be able to keep apart drunk family members ready to get angry and sloppy.

There was no pumpkin pie, because butter and flour were unheard of or sorely missed, depending on ones’ affiliation, but wild fowl was likely on the menu, which leads me, among others, to conclude there was stuffing.

Historians point to their evidence, while I point to the simple fact that both Pilgrims and Indians are human beings, and human beings know how to cook. And cooks don’t let an empty body cavity go unstuffed, especially during a 3-day feast.

Unfortunately, we seem to take this for granted in today’s America, where we think nothing of passing around side dishes filled with savory bread pudding called “stuffing” that has never seen the inside of a bird. That’s the fight I’ll pick this year.

Technically, this never-stuffed material is “dressing,” not “stuffing.” The reason this distinction is important is because the stuff that comes out of the bird is so much better than the side pan, even if the same went into both

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Birds:

It’s For the Stuffing

By Ari LeVaux, Flash in the Pan columnist

Seafood stuffing, Photo by Ari LeVaux

vessels. The juices from a baked bird impart an unmistakable, irreplaceable joy to the stuffing.

On the east coast, the local diet was heavy on seafood like clams, scallops, seaweed, oysters, mussels, eels and fish. I grew up in coastal Massachusetts, where we would sometimes dig a hole in the beach and fill it with ingredients like those above, and hot rocks, and have a clambake.

Somewhere along the way, in my Thanksgiving ruminations and experimentations, I decided it would be a good idea to stage a clambake inside a bird.

In order to make it taste more like stuffing, I add breadcrumbs, herbs, lemon and aromatic veggies: onions, carrots and celery. This recipe depends on a diversity of quality seafood. It’s good to have at least one with the shell on, like clams or mussels, because that makes it seem more like a real clambake. Scallops and shrimp work great too. I must have a jar of oysters, like you can get at the seafood counter of many stores. And I really like imitation crab, like what you get in a California roll. It soaks up the juices like a thirsty sponge.

Chickens, ducks and turkeys all work

fantastic. Rabbit tastes like chicken, so that should work too. But whatever bird you are able to stuff, large or small, you might find yourself with more stuffing than you can possibly cram into your bird.

The easiest thing to do is to stuff it around the bird, along with the potatoes, and let it melt in the pan juices. Although not literally stuffed, it sucks up enough of the juices to potentially rule out gravy, and tastes like all the flavor and fat it absorbs.

Another option for too much stuffing: pull the skin away from the bird and stuff it on up between the skin and bird. If basted properly, this layer of stuffing can help keep the bird moist. The skin might split, especially if you cram shells up there, but the crusted stuffing becomes a new skin, absorbing as many bastings as you care to pour.

And finally, we can do the almost unthinkable: bake that excess stuffing in a side pan. Put it in a pan as if you are making a dish of dressing. Put a bunch of chicken wings on top, and cook it until they melt into the dressing.

And just like that, after all of my huffing and puffing, I have figured out a way to make it taste like stuffing.

But my favorite part of this fishy bird dish is the clam juice brine. You’ve probably heard of clam juice as a mixer, adding deep umami notes from earth and sea to your Bloody Mary.

And we can thank James Beard for nationalizing the idea that you should brine a chicken before baking it, because the salt gets in the meat, and salty meat absorbs more water than non-salty meat, so it stays moist.

My salty clam brine combines the two concepts and brings them deep into the meat.

It flavors the stuffing via the fat, and adds delicious authenticity to the feast. It may not dissolve the animosity at the table, but perhaps it will at least help keep everyone’s mouths too stuffed with food to talk. And that, my friends, is the true point of Thanksgiving.

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Since chicken tastes good with lemon, and seafood tastes good with lemon, I add a lot of lemon.

Some clam juice is salty, some isn’t.

Sometimes the salty ones don’t mention salt in the ingredients, but it will show up in the RDA values for sodium. I’ve seen it with zero grams, 40 grams and 100 grams of added sodium, with different bottle sizes. So the salt can be a little tricky. Taste your clam juice, and if it’s really salty, reduce the added salt by a teaspoon or two.

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BIG NICK’S PIZZA

BUONO’S AUTHENTIC PIZZERIA

Conrad’s reflects the cuisine of Oaxaca with a focus fresh on local, seasonal ingredients for breakfast,

The Happy Diner #1 in Downtown San Pedro isn’t your average diner. The selections range from Italian- and Mexican-influenced entrées to American Continental.

Happy Diner chefs are always creating something new—take your pick of grilled salmon over pasta or tilapia and vegetables prepared any way you like.

Dine al fresco or call for takeout. Hours: Mon.-Wed. 6 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Thurs.-Sat. 6 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. and Sun. 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Happy Diner #1, 617 S. Centre St., San Pedro, 310-241-0917, www.happydinersp.com

HAPPY DINER #2

Built on the success of Happy Diner #1, Happy Diner #2 offers American favorites like omelets and burgers, fresh salads, plus

HAPPY DELI

The Happy Deli is a small place with a big menu. Food is made-to-order using the freshest ingredients.

Breakfast burritos and breakfast sandwiches include a small coffee. For lunch or dinner select from fresh salads, wraps, buffalo wings, cold and hot sandwiches, burgers and dogs. Order online or call for takeout or delivery. Hours: Mon. - Sat. 6 am. to 8 p.m., Sun. 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Happy Deli, 530 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro, 424-364-0319, www.happydelisp.com

SAN PEDRO BREWING COMPANY

A micro brewery and American grill, SPBC features handcrafted award-winning ales and lagers served with creative pastas, BBQ, sandwiches, salads and burgers. Order your growlers, house drafts and cocktails to go (with food purchase)! Open daily 12 to 8 p.m. for al fresco dining, takeout and delivery through Grubhub, Postmates and Doordash. San Pedro Brewing Company, 331 W. 6th St., San Pedro, 310-831-5663, www.sanpedrobrewing.com

TAXCO MEXICAN RESTAURANT

We are proud to serve our community for almost four decades with generous plates of traditional Mexican Call in your order for pickup or order online for delivery at Doordash.com. Hours: Tues.-Sat. 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Sun. and Mon. 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Taxco Mexican Restaurant, 28152 S. Western Ave., San Pedro, 310-547-4554, www.taxcorestaurantpv.com

WEST COAST PHILLY’S

Welcome to West Coast P h i l l y ’ s Cheesesteak and Hoagies where authentic Philly cheesesteaks meet the waterfront in San Pedro. Along with serving the classic cheesesteak, West Coast Philly’s puts its unique twist on its cheesesteaks and hoagies. Also on the menu are subs, burgers, wings and salads. Order online or call for pickup in the rear parking lot or delivery via Postmates, Doordash and Grubhub. Hours: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. West Coast Philly’s, 1902 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro, 424-264-5322, www.westcoastphillys.com

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pasta and Mexican dishes are served. Order online for delivery or call for curbside pickup. Hours: Mon. - Sat. 6 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., Sun. 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Happy Diner #2, 1931 N. Gaffey St., San Pedro, 310-935-2933, www.happydinersp.com

Family owned and operated since 1965, Buono’s is famous for awardwinning brick oven baked pizza.

Buono’s also offers classic Italian dishes and sauces based on tried-and-true family recipes and hand-selected fresh ingredients. Takeout, delivery and patio dining.

Hours: Sun.-Thurs. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Fri. and Sat. 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Buono’s Pizzeria, 222 W. 6th St., San Pedro, 310-547-0655, www.buonospizza.com

lunch and dinner. Now Conrad’s features Peruvian dishes, as well as an inventive Mexican vegetarian and vegan menu. Dine outdoors or order online for curbside pick up and delivery.

Hours: Mon.-Sat. 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. S. Conrad’s Mexican Grill, 376. W. 6th St., San Pedro • 424-264-5452, www.conradsmexicangrill.com

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Tradition, variety and fast delivery or takeout—you get it all at Big Nick’s Pizza.The selection of Italian specialties include hearty calzones, an array of pastas and amazing signature pizzas. We are taking all safety precautions to protect our diners and staff.

Follow us on Facebook and Instagram to stay updated on new developments. Call for fast delivery or to place a pick up order. Hours: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Fri.-Sun. Big Nicks’ Pizza, 1110 N. Gaffey St., San Pedro, 310-732-5800, www.bignickspizza.com

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developed through both instructorled classes and workshops.

Details: www.angelsgateart. org/3D/made-onsite

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ART

Nov. 12 Gallery Conversations: Raised as Roosters Angels Gate Cultural Center presents Gallery Conversations: Raised as Roosters with artists Abel Alejandre, Guerra and curator Kristina Newhouse via live webinar. The conversation, followed by an open Q&A, will discuss the artists’ processes and reflect upon the themes of Xicano identity, masculinity, and traditional Mexican visual motifs in AGCC’s exhibition.

Time: 6:30 p.m. Nov. 12 Cost: Free Details: www.angelsgateart.org

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Made Onsite This virtual tour explores the rich body of work developed by the artists of Angels Gate Cultural Center’s community classes.

These classes have been ongoing for the past 20 years with the goal of bringing together artists of different backgrounds, ages, and practices. Ranging in media from ceramics, collage, painting, and drawing, this exhibition showcases the breadth of art

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DANCE Nov. 12

Grace @ 20 Grace is an ode to God’s grace and is dedicated to the legacy of Alvin Ailey. The dance weaves the story of a goddess’ journey to Earth to spread grace among humans, ultimately welcoming them to heaven, set to a score that includes works of Duke Ellington, Roy Davis Jr. and Fela Anikulapo Kuti.

Time: Online 7 p.m. Nov. 12 to 14 Cost: Free Details: online.cap.ucla.edu

Nov. 21

Family Art Workshops The large world of small puppets will be the subject of AGCCs family art workshop this month.

Create your own hand and rod puppet. Together you will create a character, practice pantomime, and explore your unique voices.

From the grounded to the absurd, all folks are welcome. Register on eventbrite for the Zoom link and a list of supplies. Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

Time: 3 to 5 p.m. Nov. 21 Details: www.eventbrite.com/e/ virtual-family-art-workshop

EDUCATION Nov. 12

Living Books The Living Library invites visitors to virtually connect with Living Books. This year’s Living Library will take place virtually on Zoom.

Living Books may be “checked out” for 20-minute one-on-one conversations with guests of honor who are donating their time as “Living Books.” Library card not required. Virtual Living Library is a collaboration between the El Segundo Public Library and El Segundo Museum of Art. Time: Nov. 11, 12, 13 & Nov. 18, 19, 20 from 4 to 5 p.m. via Zoom Details: www.tinyurl.com/ LivingBooks2020

COMMUNITY Nov. 14

Latino Leaders Speak Students, parents and educators: Join this educational presentation about Latino leaders who aren’t in the history books. There will be a free Zoom presentation sponsored by the Latino Leaders Network and the California Global Education Project at CSU Long Beach.

Time: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov 14, from Details: www.docs.google.com/ forms/latino-leaders-speak

Serves 6 1 4-pound bird 1 10-oz bottle clam juice 6 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 cups minced onion 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 cup chopped celery 1 cup chopped carrots 1 apple, red or green, chopped 1 teaspoon black pepper 3 tablespoons chopped fresh sage 2 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme 1 tablespoon chopped fresh rosemary 2 pounds seafood (for example; 1 pound mussels or clams on the shell, 1 10-oz tub of oysters and their juices, 6 ounces scallops, 6-oz imitation crab) ½ cup white wine 1 cup crouton-sized breadcrumbs 3 lemons, cut into quarters 4 potatoes, quartered, to surround the bird Rinse the bird, take out any giblets stashed in the cavity, and brine the bird in the clam juice with the salt and two cups of water.

Push down on the bird hard, so the body cavity fills with brine. Turn it occasionally, and marinate for at least four hours in the fridge.

Rinse the bird, pat it dry, and put it in a roasting pan. Add the oil to a fry pan and saute the onions, garlic, carrots, celery and apple with the black pepper, thyme, rosemary and sage on medium heat. After 10 minutes, add the seafood, wine and lemon juice and squeezed lemons, and cook a few minutes longer, but don’t try to cook all the seafood. Add the breadcrumbs, stir it all together and stuff it into the bird.

Place the potatoes around the bird, along with extra stuffing if you go that route.

Cover with foil and place in the oven preheated to 350. After 90 minutes remove the foil. The skin of an extra-stuffed bird will have receded like the tide, leaving a bunch of mussels clinging to the bird like it’s a beach rock. The stuffing on top, including the seafood, will hold the baste like a sponge. Turn the oven down to 300 degrees. Baste every 15 minutes until done. After about an hour, use a meat thermometer to make sure the bird’s internal temp is at least 165 degrees. Rest, serve and eat.

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Board of Harbor Commissioners Approves Harbor Community Benefit Foundation Grants

SAN PEDRO — The Port of Los Angeles approved grants totaling $209,169 to local organizations under the Harbor Community Benefit Foundation, or HCBF, grants program.

The community and environmentally focused programs approved by the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners Nov. 5 will directly serve and benefit the harbor communities of Wilmington and San Pedro.

The four grant recipients are: Los Angeles Walks ($75,000): The pedestrian advocacy organization will implement the Safe Streets Community Promotora Education Program in partnership with Best Start Wilmington. The program will train community members to serve as educators on the built environment and safe street infrastructure to help improve local air quality and make communities safer for pedestrians and for non-vehicular users.

Wilmington Community Clinic ($34,169): The grant will go toward personnel support for the Wilmington Community Clinic’s asthma program.

South Bay Center for Counseling (SBCC) ($60,000) - SBCC will use its grant to convert a vacant lot to an urban community greenspace.

Sharefest Community Development Inc. ($40,000): Sharefest will develop a portfocused service-learning course engaging youth from a local continuation high school.

Applicants for the 2020 HCBF grants included community-based, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions and schools, as well as training and career centers.

The port received a total of 37 responses from its request for letters of interest.

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Democratic representatives Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib speak about Donald Trump’s Twitter attacks against them in Washington, D.C. in 2019.

in the words of a 1967 book, The Political Beliefs of Americans, that first identified the phenomena. Thus, economic extremes can have broader, stronger support than more “centrist” alternatives, regardless of what elite leaders may think.

That’s why, for example, Trump appealed to the GOP base in 2016 by saying he’d never cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid, unlike his establishment opponents. It’s also why his supporters believe he’ll preserve coverage for pre-existing conditions, despite the fact he’s arguing to end Obamacare completely in the Supreme Court this week, with no plans at all for restoring that protection.

While some progressive policies are not so widely popular — or even well-known — many of the most significant ones are, which is why California Rep. Ro Kahana told Democracy Now! “We have to take the fight to the Senate. We have to have bold policies that are popular, and make it very clear that Mitch McConnell either has to do what the American people want or he is the person standing in the way.”

It’s also the case that trusting the middle coalition is what got us into this mess in the first place. The idea for the North American Free Trade Agreement came from Ronald Reagan and was negotiated under George H.W. Bush, but it was Bill Clinton who rammed it through Congress in 1993, with Democrats opposing it 156-102 in the House. That vote was a major reason that Democrats lost control of the House the next year, for the first time in 40 years — and did not regain control again until 12 years later.

Most notably, in the 3 rust belt states Trump won in 2016, but lost this time — Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin — Democrats voted against NAFTA 25-0, while Republicans voted for it by 17-2. It was precisely Clinton’s widely heralded “move to the center” that fueled Donald Trump’s eventual election 23 years later and Democrats have yet to recover from that fatal error. It’s hard to imagine that repeating it can bring about anything good.

There is one final possibility to consider: that Democrats win both Georgia Senate run-off elections on Jan. 5. The Senate would then be split 50-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote to give Democrats control and make Chuck Schumer majority leader. And, Schumer has already said that, “if we don’t do bold change, we could end up with someone worse than Donald Trump in four years.”

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to become the final universal model, putting an end to all but minor political skirmishes.

Instead, Goldstone argued that revolutions were born from demographic factors which societies failed to respond to properly, and that hadn’t changed. Societies don’t just need to work for a moment in time; they need to reproduce themselves for successive generations; they need to be understood in terms of resource flows — which is where things periodically break down.

“The causes of revolutions were organizational failures,” Goldstone said. “When things are bad enough for a large portion of the population, they are much more easily recruited to movements that say, ‘We gotta get rid of everything.’” In this situation, “Donald Trump has followed the typical dictators playbook.”

He didn’t create the situation, but he has made things significantly worse. The maladies mentioned above — severe economic inequality, systemic racism, dysfunctional government, a decaying public sphere, and selfish, unaccountable elites at war with each other — have only intensified.

“The most important person for the future of America has been and will be Mitch McConnell,” Goldstone said. “If Mitch McConnell is willing to say. ‘Hey, I want to keep America safe. I want the moderate center of American politics to flourish and be rebuilt.’ If he is willing to work with the Democrats to pull us back from the edge of a cliff, we can start to move away from the danger spot we’re in.”

But there’s nothing in McConnell’s record as GOP Senate leader to suggest that he’ll do this.

Indeed, he’s still pushing ahead to confirm more Trump judges.

“We’re going to run through the tape,” McConnell told conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt. “We’re going to fill the 7th Circuit, and I’m hoping we have time to fill the 1st Circuit as well.”

“We’re going to end up having an election in 2024 that makes 2020 look relatively united,” warned Gladstone, if McConnell continues in this vein.

Goldstone sees McConnell and Biden working together as strengthening the centrist wings on both sides.

“If the middle left and the middle right can work together, they keep the extremes marginalized,” he said.

This might be true of political systems generally, but America has long been an anomaly in one crucial respect. Economically progressive policies have popular support across the spectrum, creating an “almost schizoid” split between conservative free-market ideology and progressive big government policy attitudes,

LONG BEACH — Well over a month after the soaring Gerald Desmond Replacement Bridge opened to vehicular traffic, cyclists and pedestrians are still waiting for access to its vaunted Mark Bixby Memorial Bicycle Pedestrian Path. They may be waiting for a while.

Some portions of the route are still in the early phases of construction. While certain portions of the path may appear complete, like the main span segment, they are unfinished. Consequently, the entrances have been blocked for all but construction vehicles. Weekly updates will be provided for more information on accessibility to the bikewalk path.

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Most notably, in Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins won 50.6% of the vote, well ahead of Trump’s 43.4%, even though she had repeatedly betrayed her long-time moderate, pro-choice brand with lock-step support for Trump whenever the chips were down, and had trailed Maine House Speaker Rep. Sara Gideon consistently in polls since February.

Democrats only chance to control the Senate — just barely — rests on winning two run-off elections in Georgia in January. Democrats also lost seats in the House, rather than gaining another dozen or so, as most forecasters had predicted. Centrist Democrats have been quick to blame progressives for these losses — whether it’s Black Lives Matter protests calling to defund the police, or the four progressive female representatives known as “The Squad” whom Trump has repeatedly vilified. But it’s a deflection of responsibility that doesn’t stand up to close scrutiny.

Black Lives Matter protests helped drive surges in voter registration, and activism, which helped drive turnout in three urban centers — Milwaukee, Detroit and Philadelphia — that were crucial to taking back the rust belt states Trump won in 2016.

Even after months of demonization by Trump, they retain majority support — which has always eluded Trump.

“Progressive policies do not hurt candidates,” Squad member Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez told The New York Times the weekend after Election Day. “Every single candidate that co-sponsored Medicare for All in a swing district kept their seat. We also know that co-sponsoring the Green New Deal was not a sinker. Rep. Mike Levin was an original cosponsor of the legislation, and he kept his seat.”

Levin was one of four Democrats to win GOP seats in Orange County in 2018. Another, Katie Porter, gained fame for her devastating questioning of corporate bigwigs and Trump administration lackeys.

She was re-elected handily, leading by 7 points, 53.5-46.5, with 96% reporting as we go to press.

Meanwhile, the other two—Harvey Rouda and Gil Cisneros—are trailing in their races, despite heavy TV ad spending touting their bipartisan approach.

Blaming the Squad is even more ridiculous, as Squad member Rep. Ilhan Omar pointed out on MSNBC Nov. 8.

“The president isn’t a symptom of me,” Omar said. “He has been in office longer than I have been in Congress. He is a symptom of something larger and you know we have to figure out what the process is to heal the divides in our nation. How do we get over the cultural wars that we are in? How do we get in the process of speaking to people?”

These are not mere platitudes for Omar.

“I asked for leniency for a person who’s currently incarcerated for threatening to kill me,” she noted.

“Hate is too big of a burden to carry. I work and lead my life with love and compassion and empathy.”

Perhaps it’s because she knows the cost so well, as a refuge of Somalia’s civil war.

“I was uprooted from my home country at the age of 8 because of violence because of divisions, because of what happens when people don’t see each other as neighbors as friends, as family and turn on one another,” she said. “So, my mission in life has been to work towards creating solidarity between people.”

The parallel with countries like Somalia is an apt one according to Jack Goldstone, author of the 1991 book Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World. His book appeared in the midst of post-Cold War euphoria, when the supposed “end of history” was being celebrated, on the mistaken assumption that Western liberal democratic capitalism was about

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These experts will have the option of taking clients to a Mental Health Urgent Care Center for compassionate, effective treatment. The approach intends to ease the burden on law enforcement officers and paramedics who typically lack proper training for these assignments.

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Attachment 3 NOTICE OF INTENTION TO PURCHASE REAL PROPERTY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that it is the intention of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles, State of California, to purchase the following described Real Property, located in Los Angeles County, State of California, from the named vendors at the designated prices. It is

the intent of the County to use the Real Property to provide housing units for individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness.

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SELLER: Texas Hotels Inc. a Texas Corporation PRICE: $20,500,000 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the purchase of the Real Property described above will be consummated by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles, State of California, on October 27 th , 2020, at 9:30 a.m. at the regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors.

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Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

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18 Speedo bunch?

19 Org. 20 “Classic Concentration” puzzle type 22 Word before Moines or Plaines 23 Target of crunches 25 “Charlotte’s Web” author White and namesakes 26 In ___ (actually) 27 Voicemail message opener, if you know someone well 30 Georgia airport code 31 One-named comedian and host of “Celebrity Fit Club” 32 “What’ll break if I break up with you” response, for a thuggish couple?

37 Where letters are sent to the mil.

38 Futuristic van Damme flick of 1994 39 Sweet suffix 40 Vegetarian’s “Duh!” response to why they hate their formerly vegan pal?

43 Brit or kiddie follower 44 Actress Jillian

45 Illegal lighting 46 Early gay rights advocate AndrÈ 48 Campus comedy with a cameo

by George Clinton 49 Wind dir.

50 Mass ___ (Boston thoroughfare, to locals) 51 Play cowritten by Mark Twain and Bret Harte 53 Prepare the day before 57 Drink Mencken called “The only American invention as perfect as the sonnet” 60 Library’s attempt at copying milk ads?

62 Like leftovers 63 Ripken’s team 64 He’s a little froggy 65 Keep in check

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9 Not-quite-ready-to-fold remark 10 Tayback who played Mel on “Alice” 11 Lang. that doesn’t really contain that many words for “snow”

12 Forest floor growth 13 Blurry area, maybe 14 Witherspoon who played an angel in “Little Nicky” 21 Confidential phrase 24 Outdo in 26 Pt. of ESL 27 “If ___ be so bold ...”

28 Shat this clue has 29 Took on, as a burden 30 Redundant-sounding cash dispenser 31 Dominant figures 33 “___ of Me” (1993 PJ Harvey album) 34 Auction grouping 35 Capital home to a Viking Ship Museum 36 Ultra-bright 41 Go quickly 42 Muscle that makes things stand upright 46 Entire range 47 Trump’s ex 48 Dashboard 49 Annoy your bedmate, in a way 52 Composer Stravinsky 54 Part of a reversal, maybe 55 Actor Ed in a famous “Tonight Show” tomahawk-throwing stunt 56 Pigsty 58 Phone line invasion 59 Lance of the O.J. trial 61 Leave change on the table

LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE INVITING BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Long Beach, California, acting by and through the City’s Board of Harbor Commissioners (“City”) will receive, before the Bid Deadline established below, Bids for the following Work: ON-CALL SERVICES FOR UNDERGROUND WET UTILITIES at THE PORT OF LONG BEACH LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA AS DESCRIBED IN SPECIFICATION NO. HD-S3110 Bid Deadline:

business-opportunities.

Copies of all Port insurance endorsement forms, SBE/ VSBE Program forms, Harbor Development Permit Applications and other Port forms are available at www. polb.com/business/permits.

NIB -2 Pre-Bid Questions.

All questions, including requests for interpretation or correction, or comments regarding the Contract Documents, must be submitted no later than December 8, 2020 at 5 p.m. Questions received after the pre-Bid question deadline will not be accepted.

Prior to 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 15, 2020 Bids shall be submitted electronically via the Port of Long Beach PlanetBids (PB) System prior to 2:00 p.m.

Bid Opening: Contract Documents Available:

Electronic Bid (eBid) results shall be viewable online in the PB System immediately after the Bid Deadline.

Download Contract Documents from the Port of Long Beach PB System Vendor Portal: www.polb.com/sbe Click on the POLB Vendor Portal 1. Register and Log In 2. Click “Bid Opportunities” 3. Double-click on respective bid Project Title 4. Click on Document/Attachments tab 5. Double-Click on Title of Electronic Attachment 6. Click “Download Now” 7. Repeat for each attachment For assistance in downloading these documents please contact Port of Long Beach Plans and Specs Desk at 562-283-7353.

Pre-Bid Meeting:

None

Project Contact Person:

Joseph Gunaranjan, joseph.gunaranjan@polb.com

NIB -1 Contract Documents. Contract Documents may be downloaded, at no cost, from the Port of Long Beach PB System Vendor Portal website. Bidders must first register as a vendor on the Port of Long Beach PB System website in order to view and download the Contract Documents, to be added to the prospective bidders list, and to receive addendum notifications when issued.

NIB -3 Mandatory PreBid Meeting and Site Visit.

There will not be a pre-bid meeting or site visit for this project. Site images are provided with the documents for reference. Any site photographs, videos, or maps included in the Contract Documents do not constitute a complete visual depiction of the site and should neither be

NIB -6 Contractor’s License. The Bidder shall hold a current and valid Class “A”, California Contractor’s License to construct this project.

NIB - 7 Contractor Performed Work. The Contractor shall perform, with its own employees, Contract Work amounting to at least 30% of the Contract Price, except that any designated “Specialty Items” may be performed by subcontract. The amount of any such “Specialty Items” so performed may be deducted from the Contract Price before computing the amount required to be performed by the Contractor with its own employees. “Specialty Items” will be identified by the City on the Schedule of Bid Items. The bid price of any materials or equipment rental costs from vendors who are solely furnishing materials or rental equipment and are not performing Work as a licensed subcontractor on this

The combined SBE/VSBE participation goal for this Project is twenty-seven percent (27%) of total bid value. The combined SBE/VSBE participation goal shall include a minimum five percent (5%) of total bid value as VSBE. POLB expects all Bidders to achieve the combined SBE/VSBE participation goal.

Award of the Contract will be conditioned on the Bidder submitting an SBE-2C Commitment Plan demonstrating the Bidder’s intent to meet the combined SBE/VSBE participation goal. If the Bidder’s Commitment Plan does not demonstrate intent to meet the combined goal, the Bidder shall demonstrate that it made an adequate good faith effort to do so, as specified in the Instructions to Bidders. The Port’s SBE Program staff is available to provide information on the program requirements, including SBE certification assistance. Please contact the SBE Office at (562) 283-7598 or sbeprogram@polb.com.

You may also view the Port’s SBE program requirements at www.polb.com/sbe.

NIB -9 Prevailing Wage Requirements per Department of Industrial Relations. This Project is a public work Contract as defined in Labor Code Section 1720.

The Contractor receiving award of the Contract and Subcontractors of any tier shall pay not less than the prevailing wage rates to all workers employed in execution of the Contract. The Director of Industrial Relations of the State of California has determined the general prevailing rates of wages in the locality in which the Work is to be performed. The rate schedules are available on the internet at http://www.dir. ca.gov/dlsr/DPreWageDetermination.htm and on file at the City, available upon request. Bidders are directed to Article 15 of the General Conditions for requirements concerning payment of prevailing wages, payroll records, hours of work and employment of apprentices.

This Project is subject to compliance monitoring and

Contractors and Subcontractors must furnish electronic Certified Payroll Records (CPRs) to the Labor Commissioner’s Office, and in addition, hardcopies or electronic copies shall be furnished to the Port of Long Beach.

NIB -10 P r o j e c t L a b o r Agreement. This project is not covered by a PLA. NIB -11 Tr a d e N a m e s and Substitution of Equals.

With the exception of any sole source determination that may be identified in this paragraph, Bidders wishing to obtain City’s authorization for substitution of equivalent material, product, or equipment, are required to submit a written request for an Or Equal Substitution using the form included in Appendix A together with data substantiating Bidder’s representation that the non-specified item is of equal quality to the item specified, no later than fourteen (14) calendar days after City’s issuance of Notice to Proceed (NTP). Authorization of a substitution is solely within the discretion of the City.

NIB -12

Bonds shall be on forms provided by the City.

NIB -14 C o n d i t i o n a l Award of Contract and Reservation of Rights. The Board, acting through the Executive Director, reserves the right at any time before the execution of the Contract by the City, to reject any or all Bids, and to waive any informality or irregularity.

The Conditional Award of the Contract, if any, will be to the responsible Bidder submitting the lowest responsive and responsible Bid. If the lowest responsive responsible Bidder fails to submit the required documents including insurance forms, bonds and signed Contract within thirty (30) calendar days after Conditional Award of Contract, the Board reserves the right to rescind the Conditional Award and Conditionally Award the Contract to the next lowest responsive and responsible Bidder.

NIB -15 Period of Bid Irrevocability. Bids shall remain open and valid and Bidder’s Bonds and other acceptable Bid Security shall be guaranteed and valid for ninety (90) calendar days after

the Bid Deadline or until the Executive Director executes a Contract, whichever occurs first.

NIB -16 Substitution of Securities. Substitution of Securities for retainage is permitted in accordance with Section 22300 of the Public Contract Code.

NIB -17 Iran Contracting Act of 2010. In accordance with Public Contract Code sections 2200-2208, every person who submits a bid or proposal for entering into or renewing contracts with the City for goods or services estimated at $1,000,000 or more are required to complete, sign, and submit the “Iran Contracting Act of 2010 Compliance Affidavit.”

Issued at Long Beach, California, this 13th day of July, 2020.

Mario Cordero, Executive Director of the Harbor Department, City of Long Beach, California Note: For project updates after Bid Opening, please contact p l a n s . s p e c s @ polb.com.

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NIB -13 B i d S e c u r i t y, Signed Contract, Insurance and Bonds. Each Bid shall be accompanied by a satisfactory Bidder’s Bond or other acceptable Bid Security in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the Base Bid as a guarantee that the Bidder will, if Conditionally Awarded a Contract by the Board, within thirty (30) calendar days after the Contract is conditionally awarded to the Contractor by the City, execute and deliver such Contract to the Chief Harbor Engineer together with all required documents including insurance forms, a Payment Bond for one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price, and a Performance Bond for one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price. All

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Divorce $159-$289 + Filing Fee Bankruptcy $695 + Filing Fee Living Trust $375 Will $175 • Probate $299 Basic Prices for Simple Cases

NIB - 5 Contract Time and Liquidated Damages. The Contractor shall achieve Affidavit of Final Completion of the Project within two (2) calendar years as provided in Paragraph SC - 6.1 of the Special Conditions, from a date specified in a written “Notice to Proceed” issued by the City and subject to adjustment as provided in Section 8.2 of the General Conditions. FAILURE OF THE CONTRACTOR TO COMPLETE THE WORK WITHIN THE CONTRACT TIME AND OTHER MILESTONES SET FORTH IN THE SPECIAL CONDITIONS, INCLUDING THE ENGINEER’S APPROVAL OF AFFIDAVIT OF FINAL COMPLETION, WILL RESULT IN ASSESSMENT OF LIQUIDATED DAMAGES IN THE AMOUNTS ESTABLISHED IN THE SPECIAL CONDITIONS.

NIB - 8 SBE/VSBE. This project is subject to the Port of Long Beach (POLB) Small Business Enterprises (SBE)/ Very Small Business Enterprises (VSBE) Program.

enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

No Contractor or Subcontractor may be listed on a bid proposal for a public works project unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5 (with limited exceptions from this requirement for bid purposes only under Labor Code Section 1771.1(a)). No Contractor or Subcontractor may be awarded a contract for public work on a public works project unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5.

For the link to the Port of Long Beach PB System and for information on this Project and other upcoming Port projects, you may view the Port website at www.polb.com/business/

Questions must be submitted electronically through the PB System. Emails, phone calls, and faxes will not be accepted. Questions submitted to City staff will not be addressed and Bidder will be directed to the PB System.

NIB - 4 Summary Description of the Work. The Work required by this Contract includes, but is not limited to, the following: repairs of existing water, sewer, and storm drain systems on an on-call basis. Refer to Technical Specifications.

project shall also be deducted from the Contract Price before computing the amount required to be performed by the Contractor with its own employees.

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Please refer to the Port of Long Beach PB System for the most current information.

considered nor are warranted as such. The City makes no guarantee that existing construction and site conditions matches construction depicted on record reference documents. It shall be the Bidder’s responsibility to identify existing conditions. Note that downloading all available documents can be used to satisfy a portion of a Bidder’s good faith efforts to meet the SBE/VSBE participation goals listed below.

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