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The most anti-Malibu-school-district school board member has coasted to re-election. Maria Leon Vazquez has consistently opposed Malibu independence from Santa Monica. Leon Vazquez won election to her sixth term … in a crowded field of 8 candidate seeking three seats on the Santa Monica Malibu school board. Also winning … Jon Kean … who is […]

Malibu split its vote last night on the city council race. But one decision was clear. Incumbent city council member Rick Mullen was deeply unpopular with just about all segments of voters. Mullen got just 10 percent of the votes … finishing behind six other candidates. The election results as of 2:27 this morning are […]

This is F-M 99.1 … KBUU News … and for Tuesday … here are the Election Day Headlines = Can it end soon enough? Polls close at 8 p-m. = If you want your ballot to be counted … do NOT mail it today. = No civil uprising expected in Malibu … says the sheriff’s […]

Bad relations between Malibu and Santa Monica school officials turned even more sour today … “Shame on you all” … said Malibu board member Craig Foster to the school superintendent …. Ben Drati … in a letter today. Foster called Drati’s letter of last week to Malibu “equal parts deeply offensive, wildly hypocritical and completely […]

Police from within 30 miles of the Malibu area met today to “hope for the best, but plan for the worst” in the most-precarious election in the United States since the Reconstruction. “And all are fishing for intelligence to support their missions,” Capt. Chuck Becerra said. “Thus far, no intelligence exist to suggest we will […]

Santa Monica school officials – for the second time – are postponing a survey of parents. teachers and staff  on reopening schools, further delaying any possible classroom time for small kids. While elementary schools are reopening in one week over the hill …. classrooms in Malibu area will remain locked while the district tries to […]

= Malibu is on edge … loud motorcades … voting disruptions in other cities. = Santa Monica … Beverly Hills … boarded up for an election unlike ever seen. = Elementary schools begin reopening in Agoura … but a muddled situation in Malibu. = Allegations of favoritism in the handling of a prominent alleged drunk […]

The Woolsey Fire that destroyed western Malibu … two years ago … started not at one … but at two places. That’s according to the official CalFire investigation into the fire … an investigation that is key to the lawsuits filed for the nearly six billion dollars worth of homes and businesses that were destroyed […]

Local reaction is pretty much predictable to the letter from the local school superintendent … coming out against Malibu’s plans for an independent school district. Ben Drati sided with Santa Monica interests this week … in the now-public battle over Malibu property tax revenues. Social media posts are blasting the superintendent … Even longtime school […]

= KBUU gets the first copy of the official CalFire report on the Woolsey Fire. = It started in two places … and there was only one fire truck immediately available. = Edison equipment was the culprit … says CalFire … but the defense contractor Boeing could not deal with two simultaneous ignitions. = And […]