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Some sad anniversaries are coming up. Of course … the Woolsey Fire is nearing the one year mark. And the worst mass shooting in the Malibu area ever … happened November 7th of last year. It was the Borderline Bar shooting in Thousand Oaks. One student from Pepperdine was killed. The Borderline had deep roots […]

At Malibu High School … original plans to provide a “green roof” of living plants on top of the front building are running into reality. The original architectural plans were for a living roof … a garden on top of the building now arising on Morning View Drive. A couple of problems with that… Student […]

=    Malibu businesses need to attract more tourist dollars … but does Malibu need more tourists? =    That may be the issue as the Malibu Chamber of Commerce asks city hall for some help. =    Mountain lions being poisoned … a flash point … as the city attorney is accused of delay. […]

It now appears that Southern California Edison switched off the power to circuits … no closer than 30 miles from where a hot pole apparently caused last week’s deadly fire. SCE has officially notified the state that its equipment suffered a malfunction … at the same time and place that the deadly Saddleridge Fire broke […]

Southern California Edison has officially notified the state that its equipment suffered a malfunction … at the same time and place that the deadly Saddleridge Fire broke out last week. It will takes months … maybe years … before the official blame is assessed. The death toll is at two … this is a homicide […]

Malibu’s Chamber of Commerce is pushing hard for a city boost for tourism. A program aimed at taxing local businesses … to use the money to promote businesses to local tourists. It’s called a management district plan. Ian Roven … a Chamber of Commerce board member … appeared at the city council last night. He […]

= Malibu businesses need to attract more tourist dollars … but does Malibu need more tourists? = That may be the issue as the Malibu Chamber of Commerce asks city hall for some help. = Mountain lions being poisoned … a flash point … as the city attorney is accused of delay. = Verizon puts […]

=    Witnesses blame Southern California Edison for last week’s fire. =    Fire investigators concentrate on an SCE transmission line in Sylmar. =    Three small brushfires ignited in the mountains above Malibu last Friday. =    A state law inspired by Mitirce Richardson is vetoed by the governor. =    And there’s been […]

While the skies were filled with smoke in Malibu … last week … all eyes were on the Saddleridge Fire … But three fires broke out in the Santa Monica Mountains that Thursday. All three of them  … not connected … but all three … under investigation. One fire burned about a quarter of an […]

Last week’s big brushfire in the San Fernando Valley was apparently caused by a transmission line … carrying power through an area that was not blacked out. In other words … while Edison was turning off the power in some places in Southern California … its lines elsewhere in Southern California were apparently causing yet […]