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The Santa Monica school board will make a new divorce offer to Malibu today … and in a seven hour long closed door meeting last night … they reaffirmed its desire to divorce the two cities’ school district. After the meeting ended … just after 11 last night … a district spokeswoman said a formal […]

11:05 PM THURSDAY NIGHT After a marathon seven hours of sharp negotiations, all seven members of the Santa Monica Unified School Board agreed on the concept of an independent Malibu district, if a county committee can come up with mutually-agreeable terms. Malibu board member Craig Foster was among the 7-0 vote to ask the City […]

Santa Monica school superintendent Ben Drati says the best and final offer from Malibu is not acceptable to Santa Monica … not acceptable at all. Superintendent Doctor Ben Drati tells KBUU News he will send a formal letter to Malibu today … turning down the so-called “best and final offer” made by Malibu 3-1/2 weeks […]

L – A County now says seven cases of coronavirus are linked to the Pepperdine athletics department. And the number of infections in the dorms at Pepperdine is now 19. Earlier this week … 17 cases were reported in student housing. The student newspaper reports that the Pepperdine baseball team went into quarantine for 10 days […]

KBUU News Headlines – Thursday = An outbreak of Covid 19 positive cases at Pepperdine University. = The mens baseball and volleyball teams cancel all events. … 19 cases in dorms. = Team members who live off campus advised … sleep as far away as possible from their roommates. = Santa Monica’s school superintendent blasts […]

= Schools will reopen this fall … with the end of the color coded tiers. = The Santa Monica school board wants to go into secret session to fight Malibu. = Malibu residents can give them their opinions about that… tomorrow at 4 pm. = Questions are raised over whether Santa Monica can legally call […]

L A city councilman Mike Bonin is proposing the addition of tiny houses as temporary housing for homeless persons at the huge state-owned parking lot at Pacific Palisades, just east of Malibu. The Westside councilman is also proposing that the city of LA study a “safe parking lot,” where persons living in their cars, vans […]

Easter weekend ends with four road deaths in Malibu and the Santa Monica Mountains. A man with a bicycle was struck and killed on Pacific Coast Highway … just west of Busch Drive … last night. And a second person … who was giving aid to the first … was also struck and killed … […]

Santa Monica-Malibu school superintendent Ben Drati appeared at a rally last week … a rally of Santa Monica residents opposed to allowing Malibu to pull out of their school district, without incurring an enormous SM tax subsidy. There …. the man heading public schools in both cities urged Santa Monica residents to speak before the […]

= Malibu still accepting applications to get Covid vaccinations at city hall in 10 days. = Outside newscasts asking … why is the Malibu vaccination rate so low?? = L A County says it’s time to let the Point Dume Community Services District die. = But a former Malibu mayor says the district should be […]