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The wheels may be coming off the wagon … at the Malibu schools. First … the parent fund raising effort has some major disagreements. Second … the school board appears to be heading towards slowly phasing out enrollment from students from outside the district. And third … teachers are unhappy about layoff notices being sent […]

=   Malibu and other westside cities get ready for COVID 19. =   Calls for a forensic autopsy on L A County elections … after last Tuesday’s voting fiasco. =   Some Malibu parents will be trooping down to the Santa Monica school board tonight. =   They say the school board will cripple […]

What is the City of Malibu doing about coronavirus???? Preparing … waiting … and quietly getting ready. The Westside cities of Malibu, Beverly Hills, Culver City, Santa Monica, and West Hollywood put out a joint news release yesterday. They say they are are jointly following the lead of Los Angeles County and its Department of […]

Long lines … malfunctioning computers … polling places that were a day and a half late. As bad as the election was in Malibu … it was worse in some places elsewhere in L-A County. The L A Times reports that some voters waited four hours and longer in some locations to cast their ballots. […]

Dozens of parents are expected to troop down to Santa Monica for tonight’s school board meeting … to object to plans by the district to phase out enrollment in Malibu schools for kids from over the hills. The district faces an 11 point 5 million dollar budget shortfall … it will vote on sending pit […]

Did the sheriff just publicly tell us a lie??? That’s the indication …. as Malibu’s mayor performs a bit of a fact check on Sheriff Alex Villanueva. Tuesday night … the sheriff addressed a community meeting in Calabasas … a community that included several Malibu officials who are not happy with the constant rotating door […]

This is KBUU News – Day 482 – the Thursday Headlines: = Malibu and other westside cities get ready for COVID 19. = Calls for a forensic autopsy on L A County elections … after last Tuesday’s voting fiasco. = Some Malibu parents will be trooping down to the Santa Monica school board tonight. = […]

Today’s newswire: =  A local state of emergency is declared in Los Angeles County as we have seven Coronavirus cases now. =  Long lines to vote in Malibu … officials apologize. =  The fire department tax goes down to a big defeat. = Sheriff Alex Villanueva is confronted by Malibu residents over the spinning revolving […]

Negotiations between Malibu and Santa Monica over creating a separate school district for our city have reached a hard place. The issue is a parcel tax that was approved by voters in 2008. Every property in Malibu and Santa Monica is assessed a $348 Parcel tax to fun school operations. That tax does not have […]

California’s primary election results are still being tabulated. Long lines to vote greeted Malibu voters at Bluffs Park yesterday. Ones were not so bad at one Cabrillo elementary school … the only other voting center in Malibu. But across LA County some voters needed to wait three hours to cast their ballots. The county registrar […]