Redondo Beach City Council taps Joe Hoefgen to City Manager job
After a lengthy closed session meeting, the Redondo Beach City Council has chosen Joe Hoefgen as their permanent City Manager. Hoefgen has been the city’s Acting City Manager since April. Hoefgen, who had previously been the city’s community services director, was named to the interim position after the most recent city manager, Bill Workman, was […]
CA 51 Killer Whale family returns to South Bay
A pod of orcas, known by the name of its matriarch CA 51, has returned to the South Bay.
Gladwell argues deterance won’ stop rebels
The deterrence theory, Gladwell explained, holds that people rebel when the benefits outweigh the risks. “The problem with the deterrence theory,” he said, “is too often it doesn’t explain behavior.”
Manhattan Beach developer sentenced for fraud
William Warren Geary, 72, of Manhattan Beach, was sentenced Dec. 15 in Federal Court in Santa Ana to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay back almost $1 million he took from fellow co-owners of a Florida mall that he helped build in 2002.