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An emergency ban on evicting renters in the City of Malibu goes before the city council tomorrow night. The ordinance is aimed at prohibiting no-fault evictions … ejecting tenants in order to jack up the monthly price before a new state rent control law goes into effect … in seven weeks. City staff is hearing […]
A massive analysis of the city and county response to the Woolsey Fire landed in Malibu on Friday afternoon. The analysis was done by the Los Angeles Emergency Preparedness Foundation .. The group has worked with agencies ranging from the FBI to the City of LA fire department and others … doing post-emergency analysis of […]
Malibu is a limited city … we do not own the main street. We cannot afford the enormous cost of maintaining a state highway through a geologic mess. Same story on law enforcement … city officials say we cannot afford to set up our own police department. Malibu requires the Los Angeles county sheriff and […]
An independent, non-government review of Woolsey Fire reactions by the city, the county fire department and the county sheriff was issued Friday. And it is not very kind to the government agencies, which it blames for poor communication, failure to utilize local volunteers, and failure to support local residents who ignored evacuation orders and saved […]
An independent, non-government foundation has interviewed Malibu residents about the government response to the Woolsey Fire, one year ago. And it makes different conclusions that the city’s report on the Woolsey Fire, explaining why Malibu could not get fire engines to help us. It’s also different from the official LA County After Action Report, which […]
It was a 17-year-old girl from Los Angeles who was killed on Pacific Highway Coast Highway in Malibu area this morning. Dulce Maria Ramiro Sanchez, a Los Angeles resident, was killed when her sedan collided with an SUV just after 6 a.m. near Topanga Canyon Boulevard, according to the California Highway Patrol. The other driver […]
= A car crash may have killed someone on PCH at the east end of town this morning. PCH reopened at 11:40. = Malibu kids told “it’s OK to be not OK” one year after the fire. = LA county sheriff will not put deputies onto PCH to direct traffic in outages. […]
The Malibu City Council has scheduled a special … closed door meeting to discuss the job performance of city manager Reva Feldman. Her yearly review was delayed while the city waited for an assessment of her work … during the Woolsey Fire. That report came in … and was generally favorable. Feldman has been a […]
The Santa Monica Malibu Unified School Board has approved the 160 million dollar bulldozing and reconstruction of Malibu High School. Not one person spoke … in favor or in opposition … to the concept last night … when the board met at Malibu City Hall. The blueprint that was approved last night will see a […]
The head of the local sheriff’s office says he will not provide deputies to direct traffic … when power outages take out signals in Malibu. Captain Mark Vander Horck tells KBUU News that … in his words … “If we were to assign deputy sheriffs to direct traffic at the intersections that were affected by […]