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Four momentous decisions out of the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District late last night. And … a tax hike. First … the school district approved closing Juan Cabrillo Elementary school and folding those students in at Point Dume  … not this coming school year but in 2019. Cabrillo’s current principal … Pam Herkner … […]

The city council’s ban on marijuana deliveries may go to voters. Streets are being repaved at the Civic Center… as sewer line installation is done. Caltrans approves the concept of a wildlife bridge over the 101 Freeway. Los Angeles cracks down on overnight vacation rentals ….Malibu takes a crack at the thorny issue next week. […]

The city of Los Angeles yesterday took the first steps to ban overnight rentals of houses or apartments … unless it is the primary residence of the owner. Malibu’s proposed overnight rental ordinance goes to the Malibu Planning Commission next week … and it does -not- have a similar feature. Malibu’s proposed vacation house and […]

Caltrans has approved early plans for that $60-million wildlife freeway crossing … above the 1-0-1 Freeway in Agoura Hills. And the National Wildlife Federation has now raised about 3 point 7 million dollars in contributions for the bridge … which would connect wildlife habitat in the Santa Monica Mountains to the large wildernesses the north. […]

Petitions are being gathered in Malibu …. to overturn a city council ban on marijuana delivery. Last January … a split Malibu city council voted to retain a ban in such deliveries. And councilman Skylar Peak predicted that the city’s two marijuana stores would go to the electorate to overturn the delivery ban. And that’s […]

5:30 tonight … the Santa Monica Malibu school board will look at what to do with the mess at Malibu High School. The district is in the middle of a 77 million dollar improvement project at the high school … new buildings are being built … but it turns out the old buildings are dysfunctional […]

Sheriff deputies plan a special one day crackdown on jaywalkers and bicycle violators … on Monday … not on the weekend … on Monday. 49 percent of Malibu voters give the Santa Monica school board lousy grades. But 62 percent support a modest bond issue … for Malibu school only. School district officials tell the […]

A pier to pier transplant … Malibu to Manhattan. The Malibu Farm restaurant on the Malibu Pier … is being exported to lower Manhattan. The Malibu Farm restaurant will open a branch on Pier 17 … near the Fulton Street fish market …. just practically in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York […]

Santa Monica school district officials … halfway through a project to modernize Malibu high school and remove PCB contamination … now say they are working without a master plan …and need one quickly. That’s the gist of a report given to the school board yesterday … two days before it is to make a decision […]

Malibu voters favor modest tax hike – but 49% rate SMMUSD poorly – Malibu residents overwhelmingly say the local school district is doing a poor or only fair job at its schools… according to results of a survey conducted by the district and just released. But 62 percent of Malibu voters would support a one […]