As Pacific Palisades and Malibu residents pick through the ashes of 6,000 homes destroyed in the catastrophic fire earlier this month, a
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On January 7, as flames tore through Pacific Palisades and Malibu, Mayor Karen Bass was overseas, despite deadly wind warnings issued nearly a week prior. The catastrophic Santa Ana wind event resulted in the Palisades Fire, which burned 23,000 acres,
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By Sam Hall Kaplan The thought of the fire still haunts me, as I am sure it haunts many in Malibu, especially the burnouts but also persevering residents who are acutely
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When asked what one word would best describes post disaster Malibu, I offered “fractured,” then amended it to “hurting,,” then “changing,” followed by “challenged.” Actually words really don’t describe the conflicted feelings
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By Sam Hall Kaplan Like the residue of toxic ash from the Woolsey fire that is embedded in the soil of my Malibu, there are many aspects of that disaster that should
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By Sam Hall Kaplan FIRST THE BULLSHIT: The California City Management Foundation, a self aggrandizing bureaucratic boondoggle of which Malibu City Manager, Reva Feldman is an officer, has named her “City Manager
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Council members Skylar Peak and Rick Mullen were served with the Notice of Intent to Circulate a Recall Petition at the City Council Meeting on Monday, February 11th, 2019.
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By Sam Hall Kaplan When the Woolsey Fire ravaged a significant slice of Malibu, it also laid bare the city’s collective innocence, exposing a failed leadership and a flawed first response, and
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This letter to was sent to Council this morning after a resident pointed out some very important details, clearly overlooked by City Manager Feldman. Mayor Wagner and Council Members, Can
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By Sam Hall Kaplan Let there be no mistake about a recall for my ailing Malibu. It would be wrenching, for a city already fractured by a dwindling citizenry displaced by a
MoreThe City Observed. By Sam Hall Kaplan To coordinate the disparate efforts that tragically failed the city in the Woolsey fire, the Malibu’s bungling bureaucracy wants to hire a specialist in fire
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The bolt to the finish line… the countdown is on… With less than a week to go, Then we can put another City Council election to bed just in time for the
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