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The city manager gets a new contract. One city councilman votes no … because of problems in the Planning Department. Malibu’s proposed state law on rehab centers moves ahead in Sacramento. National Trails Day is coming up … volunteers are needed. And the MRCA boss is in the LA Times today … sliming Malibu. We […]

National Trails Day is Saturday. There are two events here in Malibu … where volunteers can help maintain our network of trails in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. The 500 miles of trails in the recreation area are the main attraction for most of the park visitors. In Zuma Canyon … volunteers are […]

MRCA boss Joe Edmiston continues his public relations battle against Malibu today. The executive director of the Mountains Resource Conservation Authority … the M R C A … has written a letter published in the Los Angeles Times. In the letter … Edmiston says the proposed Hollister Ranch settlement up in Santa Barbara County … […]

State laws are about to be changed to address the spread of rehabilitation centers in residential areas…. like Malibu. City councilman Lou La Monte has been lobbying hard for the law change for several years. LAMONTE REHABS :17 QQQ I THINK WERE GOING TO BE FINE “Last Friday, Reva and I went up to Sacramento, […]

City manager Reva Feldman has a new job contract and a 3 percent raise. But it was a 4 to 1 vote last night … and it turns out … it was a 4 to 1 vote during the secret meeting two weeks ago as well. Feldman will get a raise over the three years […]

The city council has already voted to give a raise to the city manager. Tonight it will vote on that issue in public for the first time. The city attorney says the secrecy is legal. Santa Monica hiking parking costs 40 percent. and yipes stripes the new turn lane is reducing traffic delays at the […]

Get ready to start paying 40 percent more to park for a day in downtown Santa Monica. The city of Santa Monica is trying to discourage more driving and encourage alternative transit in Malibu’s neighbor. This comes after Metro built a $2 billion train into Santa Monica … the Expo line … and allowed Santa […]

The county corner door says it was a 21-year-old pedestrian who was struck and killed by a car on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu last Friday. Francisco Antonio Mundo Hernandez was struck and killed buy a Prius driven buy a 62-year-old woman from Calabasas at five in the morning Friday… in the unincorporated area east […]

Malibu is adjusting to the new traffic lanes at the Cross Creek traffic light … including the new right turn lane onto Cross Creek Road. As predicted … that turn lane seems to be significantly reducing westbound traffic jams on heavy beach days at the Civic Center. Limited observation of the new turn lane so […]