After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

Minutes before Malibu convened a town meeting last night on school district separation … superintendent Ben Drati made it clear that our school district’s official stand is to fight Malibu. The superintendent sent a letter to parents alleging that the Malibu divorce plan would be drastically unfair to kids in Santa Monica schools. But the […]

Caltrans … the City and the L A County sheriff also have some questions to answer after the day-long power outage. When the traffic lights blacked out … why was there no traffic control for 19 hours … at most blacked out Pacific Coast Highway signals?? Three traffic crashes were reported by KBUU listeners within […]

Caltrans and Southern California Edison have some questions to answer … about some apparent mammoth screwups during Monday’s power outage. First … the power company. Malibu officials plan to demand answers from Edison over the massive power outage that left a third of the city blacked out for a day and night. The power company […]

Conciliatory words yesterday at the LA County Board of Supervisors meeting … as Sheriff Alex Villanueva headed off an effort to significantly clip his wings. For the time being. The supervisors voted to table and study a proposal by Malibu Area supervisor Sheila Kuehl … to dramatically decrease the power of the elected Sheriff. She […]

Stores are being boarded up … in case of election-related violence … in Santa Monica and Beverly Hills. In Malibu … sheriff’s Captain Chuck Becerra says … and we quote … “We do not anticipate any protests or problems in our area on Election Day.” But Becerra says … out of an abundance of caution… […]

L A County supervisors are considering taking Malibu out of the sheriff’s department. Not just Malibu … all of the 40 or so small cities in L A County that hire the L A county sheriff’s office to be their municipal police forces. Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas says major California cities get to hire their […]

From F-M 99.1 … KBUU News … the Friday Headlines = Voting by district in Malibu is not dead … the state Supreme Court wants the case. = It’s election time. Two polling places open tomorrow in Malibu. = Teachers may lose their veto power over school reopenings in Los Angeles. = Santa Monica’s police […]

After six years and 21 million dollars spent on engineering and legal fees … the Broad Beach sand replenishment project is still at least two years away from placing one grain of sand. And if the legal meeting yesterday is any indication … the 30 million project may be bogged down in a morass of […]

Malibu’s Planning Commission has rejected complaints about 5-G cellphone towers … raised by a small and very vocal group of activists. The commission Monday night unanimously approved installation of a new Verizon antenna … on top of a power pole on Point Dume. Verizon’s new tower is not 5-G … but it will be some […]

Southern California Edison has consistently refused to reveal what triggers intentional power outages during high winds. Just how high do the winds have to blow … before the power company will intentionally cut the power to Malibu … and other fire danger areas?? Before the city council … before citizens groups … and in interviews […]