Malibu California

Just over the hill … part of the 1-0-1 Freeway in Thousand Oaks will be named today … in honor of a sheriff’s sergeant who gave his life trying to rescue people from a madman with a gun. One year ago … Ventura County sheriff’s Sergeant Ron Helus rushed into the Borderline Bar and Grill […]

The Malibu High School new campus plan goes up before the school board tomorrow night. Meeting at Malibu City Hall … the school board is being requested to improve hiring the architect to design the actual buildings. Rough concepts for the campus layout have been drawn up after 50 community meetings in Malibu. The plan […]

A remarkable healing event … with remarkable art … last night at the Malibu Jewish Community Center and Synagogue. “Malibu After – Bearing Witness” may be an art show … but more accurately it is a community group therapy. Photographer Eric Myer has posted 42 gigantic panoramic photos … that he shot amidst the fire […]

Malibu’s city council met for 45 minutes behind closed doors yesterday … digesting a demand letter from a lawyer. Leon Grimes is using the California Voting Rights Act to demand that Malibu city council candidates represent specific districts …. carving up Malibu into five city council districts. Grimes claims that Latinos … who make up […]

This is KBUU News – Day 361 – the Wednesday Headlines = Malibu’s city council will respond tomorrow to a demand that it create 5 voting districts. = Malibu High School’s gigantic campus overhaul will be decided by the school board tomorrow. = The 101 Freeway gets named in honor of a hero cop … […]

This is KBUU News – Day 358 – the Tuesday Headlines: = A bus crash in eastern Malibu … no major injuries reported. = The city council faces an unusual political crisis … a lawsuit claims Latino discrimination at the polls. = Malibu could be forced to adopt voting for council members by district . […]

Malibu’s city council has called a special city council meeting … for 11 o’clock Tuesday morning. They’ll go behind closed doors … to consider a letter … threatening a lawsuit … from a Malibu lawyer. Milton Grimes his and one-time law partner  … Kevin Shenkman … have sent letters to dozens of California cities threatening […]

=  Electricity restored to Paradise Cove last night. =  Santa Ana winds are still in the Malibu mountains at sunrise. =  Detailed plans for emergency evacuations on PCH go out for public comment. =  Coastal Commission staffers raise objections to a proposed gate at Point Dume’s parking lot. = And L-A doesn’t shut off the […]

Plans for the gate to close the parking lot at the Point Dume State Nature Preserve at night have been going back and forth between the city of Malibu and the Coastal Commission for years. Actually … the battle over parking at Point Dume goes back 25 years. Residents want to install a parking lot […]

Detailed plans for evacuating Malibu are out for public comment. After last year’s chaos and traffic jam on PCH … the city hired a traffic engineer to draw up detailed plans. The plan splits Malibu into four quarters …and details what it calls ideal evacuation routes for each zone. But it acknowledges that in most […]