THEN AND NOW: Michael Shane Ellis

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Jeff Gritchen
on July 16, 2009 12:47 AM | |

20090716-ELLIS-JG.jpgTHEN: IN 2008 the Long Beach Board of Education voted to censure board member Michael Shane Ellis and to urge him to resign

NOW: Long Beach School Board member Michael Shane Ellis has missed six of his last seven school board meetings, and has been absent from one-fifth of all meetings since he was elected... for eight weeks, Ellis did not respond to phone calls and e-mails from district officials... He has not responded to repeated phone calls and e-mails from the Press-Telegram. He called district staff before the July 7 meeting to say he would attend, but he didn't show up. Read Kevin Butler's story>>

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This blog is a journal of Southern California, through the lens of Jeff Gritchen. It's updated frequently with pictures, photo tips and musings from the various assignments he covers as a staff photographer for the Press-Telegram and Torrance Daily Breeze.

Gritchen has been documenting the diverse city of Long Beach since 1998. He covers everything from the Cambodian community to prep sports to gang ridden neighborhoods to the annual running of the Long Beach Grand Prix. He covered destruction Hurricane Katrina brought to Long Beach, Mississippi and traveled to Southeast Asia to document a rural Cambodian girl's as she traveled to the U.S. for life-altering heart surgery. He has won numerous state and national awards, including an international NPPA Best of Photojournalism award in 2003 and Best News Photo from the Los Angeles Press Club in 2010. In 2011, the photo staffs of the Long Beach Press-Telegram and Torrance Daily Breeze merged. Now he covers all of Southern Los Angeles County. He can be contacted at
jeff.gritchen@presstelegram.com

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