Malibu California

Malibu’s second biggest industry … over flipping houses … is rehab facilities. And last night … HBO’S John Oliver went after them. Oliver spent most of last night ’s Last Week Tonight exposing rehabs as a shady, scam-happy group. Oliver went after Pax Prentiss and his son Chris Prentiss … the owners of Passages Malibu. NEWSCART 77567 […]

And it news from down the coast … Santa Monica chopped off the ends of its runways at Santa Monica municipal Airport this year … to decrease the amount a jet airplane traffic at the facility. It worked. A city report released last week shows that corporate jet takeoffs and landings at Santa Monica Airport […]

In news from up the coast … final hurdles were met last week for the construction of an overpass above the railroad tracks … a deadly railroad grade crossing on the road between Malibu and the 101 freeway in Oxnard. Rive Avenue will get a $68.6 million overpass … open in a few years. California’s […]

City manager Reva Feldman is in line for a raise. The city council has revealed that it held a secret job evaluation session for the city manager. The session was candid and thorough … says the city … but we don’t know what the issues were …. as it was conducted in secret. Under Malibu’s […]

= Four Malibu residents … so far … interested in running for city council. = Malibu residents react to the news … that the chili cook-off has been evicted. = Housing prices in LA County up 10 percent = … as Metro gets ready to build a big homeless camp in Venice. This is Malibu’s […]

School children will be walking along the beach tomorrow … for the second annual Malibu Walk for Water. The Samburu Project is organizing the event. They are a nonprofit organization that provides drinking water to the Samburu people … a  nomadic tribe in Africa where the women and girls walk up to 12 miles every day […]

News from both ends of the spectrum on the housing issue. Realtors report that the average median price for houses in Los Angeles County went up 10 percent in the 12 months ending last month. The price?? Just below 529 thousand dollars … in L A County. At the other end of the spectrum … […]

Malibu residents seem to be somewhat of split opinions after hearing news that the Malibu Chili Cook-off has been ousted from its longtime home. The Malibu Bay Company has informed the Kiwanis club that it no longer will be allowed to have the annual weekend carnival on Bay Company land … at the Civic Center. […]

Caltrans crews are finishing the first phase of the 5 point 2 million project to save Pacific Coast Highway from sliding down the hillside at Escondido Beach. Meanwhile … drivers continue to whiz through the 30 mile per hour construction zone at speeds nearly twice that velocity. A new wall has been built on the […]

The Malibu Times is reporting that four Malibu residents are running for the two city council seats open this fall. Lou La Monte and Laura Rosenthal are terming out … they cannot run after having served two terms. School district activist Karen Farrer and former Malibu Times reporter and editor Olivia Damavandi Ayreh have told […]