https://www.radiomalibu.net/kbuu-newswire-day-147-wed-april-3/
This is KBUU News – Day 147 – the Wednesday Headlines:
- = Santa Monica High starts building a massive structure … Malibu taxpayers subsidized it.
- = A dispute between neighbors goes all the way to the Coastal Commission.
- = A cellphone company says it has found a way to inspect its Malibu lines for safety after all.
- = A Russian jet flies into military airspace at Point Mugu … on purpose.
- = Seems like Malibu is also in the midst of an earthquake drought.
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This is Malibu’s Only Local Daily News. It’s the (((( Wednesday )))) edition … from Radio Malibu …. F-M 99 point 1 K B U U. Good morning … I’m Hans Laetz reporting.
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Santa Monica High School has broken ground on its huge new building … much of it paid for by Malibu taxpayers. Your tax dollars at work: https://www.radiomalibu.net/samohi-starts-massive-new-building/
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A neighbor dispute over a new house in Malibu is headed all the way to the California Coastal Commission next week … at its meeting in Salinas. Details: https://www.radiomalibu.net/malibu-spat-heads-to-coastal/
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Verizon whined that it could not finish a safety inspection of its Malibu poles on time. A resident complained to the state: “why on earth can’t Verizon tells us if its poles are safe?” Score one for the resident: https://www.radiomalibu.net/malibu-spat-heads-to-coastal/ .
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A Russian plane crammed with cameras flies over the Point Mugu Navy Base. Relax, Malibu, it’s all good. Details: https://www.radiomalibu.net/russian-spy-makes-bu-recon-flight/ .
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In news from up the coast … a federal judge in San Francisco says the embattled utility Pacific Gas and Electric paid huge dividends to sharehlders … and ignored tree trimming and other maintenance work to reduce wildfires.
Judge William Alsup said yesterday that “PG&E pumped out $4.5 million in dividends and let the tree budget wither.”
P G and E is in bankruptcy and faces charges it was responsible for the Cmap Fire in Paradise that killed 88 people.
This has direct impact on the utility that serves southern California … Southern California Edison … r.
The federal judge up north is still considering ordering further prevention steps, including requiring PG&E to shut power more often during high winds.
Southern California Edison is not in bankruptcy court … and has not been found guilty of criminal negligence…. both of which have been found for P G and E.
But state regulators will be applying new rules to both P G and E and Edison … and the financial health of the local utility is also largely dependent on how P G and E is treated.
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You are listening to the latest news from Radio Malibu … F-M 99 point 1 K B U U. ((( time ))))
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Call it an earthquake drought.
Seismologists say it has been nine years since Southern California experienced its last earthquake of magnitude 6 or stronger.
And the Easter Sunday quake of 2010, and that shaker was actually centered across the border, causing the most damage in Mexicali.
Malibu sits on a series of faults that go along the coast … and just offshore.
Th e U S G S has said there is a nearly one on three chance of a magnitude 6.5 earthquake to occur on the Malibu Coast Fault over the next 30 years.
But it has been really calm on the California earthquake faults …
Experts know this calm period will eventually end, with destructive results.
They just don’t know when this well-documented geological pattern will shift.
Experts worry that memories of a truly destructive quake in many urban areas have faded.
And don’t forget …. earthquakes can cause fires.
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A nationally-known expert on brushfires and their relationship to the local chaparral ecosystem will share his knowledge a week from Wednesday.
Pepperdine University Distinguished Professor of Biology Stephen Davis will be the next Malibu Public Library Speaker Series talk.
Davis is a plant ecologist at Pepperdine University.
He has studied the impact of wildfires in and around Malibu.
Much of his personal research centers on plant physiological ecology, including adaptations of chaparral vegetation to wildfire, drought, and freezing.
Stephen Davis will speak … one week from tonight ((( Wednesday, April 10 at 7:00 PM in the Pepperdine University, Elkins Auditorium. )))
Free with RSVPs.
RSVP online at www.MalibuCity.org/LibrarySpeakers or call the Malibu Library at 310-456-6438.
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The late actor Jan-Michael Vincent will be celebrated at a special memorial service to be held next month in Malibu.
Vincent was perhaps best known as the actor in the TV series “Airwolf.”
But he was a bigtime surfer … and starred in the surf movie “Big Wednesday.”
A documentary called “Hollywood Don’t Surf” explored the industry’s relationship with surfing.
It’s producers are planning a tribute … next month at Duke’s.
Big Wednesday director John Milius co-host the event and appear.
“Big Wednesday” starred Vincent… with Gary Busey, William Katt and Lee Purcell co-starring. Milius will attend the event with many of the cast and crew from the film.
Vincent died on the East Coast … three weeks ago ((Feb. 10)) … he was 73.
Vincent died February 10 at age 73.
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Weather for the Malibu ….
(((( Partly sunny and windy today )))) … highs (((( 64 )))) beaches … mountains and canyons.
Downcoast winds … ((( 15 )))) miles per hour this afternoon.
Sunset tonight is at (((( 7:16 )))).
After that … ((( clouding up )))) tonight … low (((( 55 )))) beaches … (((( 50 )))) mountains and canyons.
Tomorrow should be (((( cloudy … 20 percent chance of showers tomorrow night …. 30 percent chance of showers Friday. )))).
Right now … at Trancas it’s (((( 60 )))) degrees.
Leo Carrillo Beach … (((( 58 )))).
Upper Malibu Canyon … (((( 51 )))) .
And at Civic Center Los Angeles … (((( 60 )))).
In the ocean … it’s (((( 60 )))) degrees in the water at Zuma Beach.
The lifeguards say the waves today are (((( 2 to 3 )))) feet high ….
Modest WNW swell. Lingering SSW swell.
Those are (((( poor to fair )))) surfing conditions …. according to the lifeguards.
((((( High tide … 4.7 feet …. is at 9:16 this morning.
Low tide will be at 3:36.
Another high tide .. 4.6 feet … at 9:48 tonight. ))))
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