LONG BEACH - "It's overcast and the type of weather that makes you want to cuddle up with a good report from the FAA on how to size an airport terminal."
I enjoy a good aviation report as much as the next guy, but those thoughts aren't mine.They came from Gerrie Schipske's weblog.
Long Beach's 5th District councilwoman posts daily at Schipskedistrict5journal.com .
Big deal, right?
Everybody blogs.
Not so, when it comes to elected officials.
Schipske is the only Long Beach City Council member with an online diary.
Many politicians blog from the campaign trail - Schipske did, too - but few retain the habit when they take office.
The councilwoman, who represents much of Long Beach's Eastside, spends about 30 minutes a night writing at home - without help from staff or taxpayer money.
"It's a way to communicate with people in a city where we're a one-newspaper town, for the most part," she said over coffee in Bixby Knolls at a cafe not far from her day job at the Teachers Association of Long Beach headquarters, where she is general legal counsel.
Her site has recorded about 36,000 page views since her Oct.
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