Malibu California

In news from down the coast … the city council in Del Mar has just said “no” to planned retreat. The concept of moving structures away from the in the ocean was rejected … stripped out of a plan on how to deal with rising sea levels. This sets up a possible battle with the […]

A national ranking of high schools is out … and Malibu High School did quite well in the U-S News and World Report assessment. Malibu High is is ranked 57th within California. The survey notes that 72 percent of the kids at Malibu High take Advanced Placement classes. Total minority enrollment is 22 percent. Calabasas […]

The City of Malibu is holding a town hall meeting tonight … to discuss homelessness. The city has unveiled a 40 item agenda … a series of goals and objectives … and a list of specific tasks to achieve them. Goal one is to reduce the number of people experiencing homelessness in Malibu by providing […]

Water pressure dropped dangerously low yesterday in western Malibu. County waterworks officials report that they had problems …. while they were working on a fire hydrant along P C H west of Pepperdine University. A pump did not work as expected. Water pressure dropped in the western half of the city … generally west of […]

Malibu’s city budget goes before the city council for a vote on Monday. And it shows that the cities savings account is dipping just about as low as it can go … as Malibu is making a major investment in the future. Malibu’s city budget goes before the city council for a vote on Monday. […]

Surfs up … lots of surfers on the highway … 7 foot waves in the first south swell of the summer. Malibu’s city budget goes up and up. The city council decides on which charity gets how much. And … another prediction on sea level rise in Malibu … 16 inches in 20 years. This […]

In news from down the coast … and this may affect the Malibu school separation effort. The Santa Monica daily press reports that a Latino and Spanish-speaking parent group is re-establishing itself in the Santa Monica Malibu unified school district. The group is trying to reactivate the Hispanic parent teacher Association at Santa MonicaHigh School. […]

A handful of dignitaries sat in a wind swept strawberry field yesterday on the road between Oxnard and Malibu. They were there waiting for the governor. He was stuck on a late airplane. But the group in the strawberry fields was happy anyway. They were there to celebrate the $69 million approved by the California […]

And … the city’s Gen. Grant fund allocations have been announced. These are recommendations from to city council members to the panel as a whole. They have awarded recommending the lions share … $100,000…  to the Boys & Girls Club of Malibu. A remaining $80,000 was split up among 21 other nonprofits. Te Malibu Labor […]

City manager Reva Feldman  is in line for a raise … and a three year contract extension … The Malibu city manager will make more than the mayor of Los Angleles. The deadly railroad crossing between Malibu and Oxnard gets final approval for a bridge. And Malibu’s rehab centers get raked over the coals by […]