After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

Malibu’s city council met for 45 minutes behind closed doors yesterday … digesting a demand letter from a lawyer. Leon Grimes is using the California Voting Rights Act to demand that Malibu city council candidates represent specific districts …. carving up Malibu into five city council districts. Grimes claims that Latinos … who make up […]

This is KBUU News – Day 361 – the Wednesday Headlines = Malibu’s city council will respond tomorrow to a demand that it create 5 voting districts. = Malibu High School’s gigantic campus overhaul will be decided by the school board tomorrow. = The 101 Freeway gets named in honor of a hero cop … […]

This is KBUU News – Day 358 – the Tuesday Headlines: = A bus crash in eastern Malibu … no major injuries reported. = The city council faces an unusual political crisis … a lawsuit claims Latino discrimination at the polls. = Malibu could be forced to adopt voting for council members by district . […]

Malibu’s city council has called a special city council meeting … for 11 o’clock Tuesday morning. They’ll go behind closed doors … to consider a letter … threatening a lawsuit … from a Malibu lawyer. Milton Grimes his and one-time law partner  … Kevin Shenkman … have sent letters to dozens of California cities threatening […]

=  Electricity restored to Paradise Cove last night. =  Santa Ana winds are still in the Malibu mountains at sunrise. =  Detailed plans for emergency evacuations on PCH go out for public comment. =  Coastal Commission staffers raise objections to a proposed gate at Point Dume’s parking lot. = And L-A doesn’t shut off the […]

Plans for the gate to close the parking lot at the Point Dume State Nature Preserve at night have been going back and forth between the city of Malibu and the Coastal Commission for years. Actually … the battle over parking at Point Dume goes back 25 years. Residents want to install a parking lot […]

Detailed plans for evacuating Malibu are out for public comment. After last year’s chaos and traffic jam on PCH … the city hired a traffic engineer to draw up detailed plans. The plan splits Malibu into four quarters …and details what it calls ideal evacuation routes for each zone. But it acknowledges that in most […]

At the Getty Fire above Pacific Palisades .… just 7 miles east of Malibu’s eastern gate… 745 acres burned but forward progress stopped … and it’s now 52 percent contained. 10 homes destroyed. 15 others damaged. The Getty Fire erupted in severe Santa Anas just 7 miles east of Malibu … and burned right at us. […]

Kids in Malibu get to go to school today for the first time in three days. Electricity has been restored to all of Malibu. The central part of Malibu … the Cuthbert Circuit … was Malibu’s first PSPS … Public Safety Power Shutoff. Southern California Edison pulled the plug at about 8:45 on Wednesday night. […]

This is KBUU News – Day 354 – the Friday Headlines: = Electricity restored to Paradise Cove last night. = Santa Ana winds are still in the Malibu mountains at sunrise. = Detailed plans for emergency evacuations on PCH go out for public comment. = Coastal Commission staffers raise objections to a proposed gate at […]