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CORRECTED 10PM TUESDAY’ City council meetings in other cities frequently pick up gadflies who make dire accusations of financial fraud and other nefarious criminal deeds. Malibu’s got one. Ken Luskin … a financial analyst … has appeared repeatedly to lambaste the current city government. Luskin doesn’t like the current form of government … he would […]

Malibu’s 27 million dollar budget for next year was approved by the city council. The city now has 100 employees. The new budget is the first ever with funding cuts or freezes … as the formerly flush city checkbook has a low cash balance right now. While the city’s financial reserves remain untouched … the […]

Malibu businesses will be required to put locks on their garbage bins and take other steps to reduce scavenging people and animals from raiding them. The city council last night was given an eyeful … as residents and city staff showed picture after picture of goopy junk and overstuffed garbage bins behind buildings. Poison free […]

Fog fog fog fog fog fog fog. The first word in the weather forecast for the next 7 days. This is KBUU News – Day 228 – the Tuesday headlines: = Overflowing garbage bins and goopy trash … businesses are going to get fines. = City will do its part … it adopts an earth […]

=   A father of two little girls is knifed to death at County Line =   Deputies say it was a dispute between two car enthusiasts … gathered to watch burnouts late Saturday night at County Line Beach. =   The Point Dume 4th of July parade appears to be another casualty of the […]

Malibu’s city council has an incredible amount of work on the agenda today. =  There’s the final approval year next year’s budget. =  Discussion on what the priority will be for the 14 large construction projects that the city would like to build over the next six years. =  A vote on opening contract discussions […]

California Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday released details about a bailout bill for the shareholders and customers of Southern California Edison … and two other investor owned  utilities. A surcharge that was levied on California ratepayers nearly 20 years ago … during power shortages caused by Enron and other profiteers … was set to expire […]

Officials at the new utility cooperatives that has taken over supplying electricity to most of Malibu see their rates are going up because Southern California Edison has raised their rates. Also … the state of California is making the new energy cooperative pay four past blunders made by S C E. Many Malibu residents have […]

A circle of 25 people stood quietly on the side of Pacific Coast Highway at the western end of Malibu yesterday evening. Flowers and votive candles on the pavement. Inside the Neptune’s Net restaurant … hundreds of tourists and locals chowed down on calamari and fish … mostly oblivious to the tragedy of the night […]

A violent fight in the parking lot at Neptunes Net at 11 last night ends with a 23-year-old man from La Puente dead – his throat slashed and body stabbed multiple times. The slashing stemmed from a “previously unresolved issue” and was witnessed by a large group of car enthusiasts, gathered in the parking lot […]