Malibu California

Southern California Edison has filed its mandatory report … on those power outages that they gave us back at Halloween. You may remember that Edison cut the power to most of Point Dume … Paradise Cove and Ramirez Canyon areas for a day. Residents were a little perplexed and more than a little angry … […]

=   Wind gusts of 55 miles per hour in the 7am hour. =   Rain arrives at 4 a-m Tuesday … Grapevine snow by sunset tomorrow. =   A scary brushfire has grown to 41 hundred acres northwest of Santa Barbara. =   Reva Feldman’s job discussed again … and the mayor criticizes the […]

The city has now come up with a comprehensive traffic management plan for P C H … aimed at avoiding the debacle of last year … when motorists sat stuck in traffic for 3 or 4 hours trying to get away from the looming … catastrophic Woolsey Fire. Teh city plan calls for sheriff’s deputies […]

City Manager Reva Feldman’s job performance was up for discussion again … at last night’s city council meeting. The discussion was behind closed doors … the city attorney said that Feldman’s job rating would be discussed at a later public meeting. There has been a constant drumbeat for years … accusing Feldman of being a […]

=   Here’s something you don’t see everyday: =   Wind chill forecasts of 30 degrees in the Malibu mountains tonight. =   A half inch of rain likely tomorrow night … and Thanksgiving travel will be slick. =   Malibu’s city checkbook seems to be in good shape … despite the fire. =   […]

=  Serious construction today on Las Virgenes Road … avoid Malibu Canyon this morning. =  Almost an inch and a third of rain at Trancas yesterday. =  Malibu will loosen the pursestrings … and spend money to challenge the federal government. =  Plans for an proposed ocean water desalinization plant are blasted by the city. […]

The California Public Utilities Commission yesterday held a hearing on why cell phones and lan lines fail during power outages. California’s catastrophic fire dangers and blackouts have laid bare a problem that officials have been worrying about for years: There are no federal or state requirement that telecom companies provide backup power … or service […]

Southern California Edison has troubles with its powerlines … which have caused the the big fires including the one that devoured Malibu. Now comes report about the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power … and its creaky overhead power lines. DWP’s powerlines don’t come any closer to Malibu than the LA city limits. But […]

The concept of building a seawater desalinization plant that would serve Malibu and other Westside cities go before the Malibu city council on Monday. Some surfer groups and other environmentalists are strongly opposed to the project. The proposed desalination project would be located down the coast … south of L A X. It would draw […]