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Los Angeles County sheriff Alex Villanueva will not say why two top commanders the the Malibu Lost Hills Sheriffs Station have been transferred out … an apparent sideways demotion. KBUU News was in downtown Los Angeles yesterday … and we confronted Villanueva on a downtown sidewalk. NEWSCART 03209 LOST HILLS REPORTER: “Sheriff, can you tell […]

Flashing road signs. Telephone calls from the mayor. E mails. Public Service Announcement on the radio station. Public officials are banging the drums loudly about tomorrow’s deadline to either sign up … or opt out … of the state debris removal program. Homeowners are confronted with several possible decisions … let the state do it […]

Recall notices against two city council members have been publicized by the newspaper publisher who is circulating them. Cece Woods … owner of the The Local Malibu … aims to remove from office her former political allies Skylar Peak and Rick Mullen . Woods … a long time and frequently-bitter critic of city manager Reva […]

=  Malibu will get an independent review of city management’s actions during the fire disaster. =  Two commanders at the Malibu Lost Hills sheriff’s Station are removed. =  P G and E’s bankruptcy will have direct and indirect impacts on Malibu’s fire victims. = and a Malibu woman gets appointed to the school board … […]

The bankruptcy of Pacific Gas and Electric is of direct consequence to Malibu fire victims. Southern California Edison is by some indications just a few steps behind P G and E … the other major investor owned utility in califrnia. P G and E last week refused to pay a 1.2 million dollars settlement it […]

At least two of the top cops at the Malibu Lost Hills Sheriffs station have been reassigned. Lieutenant Jim Royal … and Captain Thui Wright … have both been removed as the top field law enforcement officers in Malibu. Transferred out … Wright was on medical leave during the Woolsey Fire … Royal was the […]

A location on Point Dume has been recommended by Malibu Mayor Jefferson Wagner as a new location for a vehicle impound lot .. a critical piece of municipal services that is currently homeless. Malibu Tow … the longtime private company that has cleared Malibu traffic crashes and helped people get their cars started … has […]

Malibu’s city council … hearing about a pending recall petition drive against two of its members … has voted to hire an independent expert to evaluate the city’;s response to the Woolsey Fire disaster. One of the two targets of the possible recall … Skylar Peak … said the move was a response to a […]

This is KBUU News – the headlines: =  Malibu vents anger at the L A County Fire Department. =  The county explains that its engines were caught on the other side of the moutnains when fire swept into Malibu. =  The fire chief announces changes in the permit process… homeowners may get immediate answers on […]

Power poles in California are virtually unregulated …. Power line failures have caused more than 2 thousand fires in the last three years. Those have killed more than 100 Californians … four of them in Malibu. And the state of California does almost nothing to inspect power poles. The Los Angeles Times has a front […]