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You might remember last spring … nearly every university in America was closed to students for the foreseeable future. Pepperdine University was one of the first in the country to proclaim that it would reopen … with dorms and on-campus instruction … in the fall. As a result … Pepperdine signed up thousands of students […]

The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District is again asking parents what they want for their kids possibly returning to school. This would be after safety protocols are drawn up and installed … and then approved by LA County. That would be in December at the earliest. Superintendent Ben Drati tells parents he understands some parents […]

This past Labor Day weekend, L A County Public Health inspectors visited 331 businesses acorss the broad area. Restaurants, markets, hair salons and barbershops, hotels and gyms.  Reasonably good compliance was observed with many aspects of Public Health protocols. But the county inspectors say there is room for improvement. Inspectors noted many gyms and hotels […]

Three million acres of California have burned this year in California. So far … none near Malibu. Our fire season is just starting. There are no fires burning within 35 miles of Malibu. But the upper atmosphere here is still thick with accumulated smoke. The first, third and fourth largest fires in California history are […]

= The 2020 West Coast Firestorms continue to burn … none yet in the local mountains. = Malibu parents again being asked … are you going to send you kids to school? = Pepperdine University closed its dorms after an early announcement … saying they would be open. = Now the school is asking thousands […]

Malibu roads are being taken over by racers … unmuffled muscle car idiots … motorcyle daredevils … and loud exotic car nutcases … particularly at night. But now … with bars and restaurants reopening … the local sheriff says the problem of drunk drivers is spicing up the mix. The  Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff’s Station announced […]

And emerging from its grave … like a zombie … trick or treating. Less than 12 hours after banning trick or treating this year because of the COVD pandemic … L A County has walked that draconian measure back. Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Wednesday that trick or treating has moved from prohibited .. […]

Malibu’s plan to ban rat poison … weed killers and other chemicial pesticides and herbicides goes before the California Coastal Commission today … and it is expected to be delayed. Bureaucrats at the Coastal Commission think it is more important to do a little tinkering with the poison ban … rather than immediately stop the […]

=  Malibu’s air quality improves from awful to merely not good. =  Fires in eastern LA County and near Big Bear are even more out of control. =  H R L gets a major contract for microwave radio frequency research. =  Malibu residents can testify today before the Coastal Commission … over the proposed delay […]

A fire caused by a police pursuit thru Topanga Canyon is out. But Topanga Canyon Boulevard is still closed … we’ll have that story in a minute. But first … There were no winds in Malibu last night. Hit and miss Santa Anas missed us. Up north … near Acton .. it got windy overnight. […]