After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

In news from down the coast … and this may affect the Malibu school separation effort. The Santa Monica daily press reports that a Latino and Spanish-speaking parent group is re-establishing itself in the Santa Monica Malibu unified school district. The group is trying to reactivate the Hispanic parent teacher Association at Santa MonicaHigh School. […]

A handful of dignitaries sat in a wind swept strawberry field yesterday on the road between Oxnard and Malibu. They were there waiting for the governor. He was stuck on a late airplane. But the group in the strawberry fields was happy anyway. They were there to celebrate the $69 million approved by the California […]

And … the city’s Gen. Grant fund allocations have been announced. These are recommendations from to city council members to the panel as a whole. They have awarded recommending the lions share … $100,000…  to the Boys & Girls Club of Malibu. A remaining $80,000 was split up among 21 other nonprofits. Te Malibu Labor […]

City manager Reva Feldman  is in line for a raise … and a three year contract extension … The Malibu city manager will make more than the mayor of Los Angleles. The deadly railroad crossing between Malibu and Oxnard gets final approval for a bridge. And Malibu’s rehab centers get raked over the coals by […]

Malibu’s second biggest industry … over flipping houses … is rehab facilities. And last night … HBO’S John Oliver went after them. Oliver spent most of last night ’s Last Week Tonight exposing rehabs as a shady, scam-happy group. Oliver went after Pax Prentiss and his son Chris Prentiss … the owners of Passages Malibu. NEWSCART 77567 […]

And it news from down the coast … Santa Monica chopped off the ends of its runways at Santa Monica municipal Airport this year … to decrease the amount a jet airplane traffic at the facility. It worked. A city report released last week shows that corporate jet takeoffs and landings at Santa Monica Airport […]

In news from up the coast … final hurdles were met last week for the construction of an overpass above the railroad tracks … a deadly railroad grade crossing on the road between Malibu and the 101 freeway in Oxnard. Rive Avenue will get a $68.6 million overpass … open in a few years. California’s […]

City manager Reva Feldman is in line for a raise. The city council has revealed that it held a secret job evaluation session for the city manager. The session was candid and thorough … says the city … but we don’t know what the issues were …. as it was conducted in secret. Under Malibu’s […]

= Four Malibu residents … so far … interested in running for city council. = Malibu residents react to the news … that the chili cook-off has been evicted. = Housing prices in LA County up 10 percent = … as Metro gets ready to build a big homeless camp in Venice. This is Malibu’s […]

School children will be walking along the beach tomorrow … for the second annual Malibu Walk for Water. The Samburu Project is organizing the event. They are a nonprofit organization that provides drinking water to the Samburu people … a  nomadic tribe in Africa where the women and girls walk up to 12 miles every day […]