The email from the Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs arrived wrapped in confident branding and institutional polish, declaring a “productive week”
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The prosecution’s implied malice theory in the Rebecca Grossman case did not rest on forensic certainty or undisputed conduct. It rested on a sentence. A single, emotionally loaded line attributed to Grossman in a hospital setting, that she would have
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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
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The 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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August 30th was the first candidates forum for Malibu City Council at the Red Ladder Gallery in Cross Creek…and red flags were waving from the get-go. Given how vocal this editor in
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By Steve Woods Malibu’s Short Term Rental ordinance finally went through a fine tooth comb with Malibu City Council last night and addressed many issues brought forward by residents who packed City
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It may be summer in Malibu, but it was apparent that it didn’t go so swimmingly (pun intended) at the June 11th City Council meeting. Council members, including Mayor Rick Mullen, received
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What seemed like a media blackout before today’s California primaries turned out to be more of a dark grey in color, as The Local Malibu received a clip showing our website and
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Only two days after being the only dissenting vote on the City Manager’s contract amidst a brewing scandal at City Hall with allegations of bribery, corruption, money laundering and tax evasion, a
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