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It’s been a decade-long haul for the 123 property owners on Malibu’s Broad Beach Road, as they have struggled to save their houses from the ocean.  When the once broad beach (giving the street its name) dwindled to almost nothing, an emergency rock revetment, or wall, was put up in front of …

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As of Tuesday afternoon, April 7, there were nine confirmed cases of COVID-19 among Malibu residents, following weeks of speculation regarding the number (or existence) of cases. 

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Longtime Malibu resident John Bell died this week, becoming the first confirmed Malibu resident to have died due to complications from COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. 

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Billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, 86, just purchased his ninth property in the Malibu Colony for $17 million, according to Variety. The exclusive, gated community contains approximately 120 properties in total. His latest purchase was an off-market deal for an oceanfront property d…

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Now that health officials have done an about face on covering our faces outside during the novel coronavirus pandemic, a local woman is using her sewing skills to make masks as a gift to her community. 

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Now that everyone is staying home around the clock except for the occasional foray to an “essential business” or to walk the dog, boredom is setting in. There are only so many hours a day anyone can spend looking at a screen or cleaning out the garage. As a result, many residents have come u…

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Malibu author Kim Stanwood Terranova holds a launch and signing of her new book, “The Technology of Intention: Activating the Power of the Universe Within You,” at an event in early March at the Malibu Design Center. “It was a brilliant kick off,” Terranova wrote, and took place just weeks b…

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Bicyclists from West Hollywood take a break at Malibu’s Whole Foods on Saturday; they insisted they were socially distancing for their entire ride.

Opinion

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I have just met two angels here in Malibu and I want to make the rest of the community aware of them. They are Katie (Katherine) and Sam (Samantha), who are part of a group called the Mighty Underdogs. This group provides free delivery service to seniors and others most vulnerable. I learned…

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The Trump administration and congressional allies have given big business every stimulus it wanted, which has ultimately been bad for business. To stimulate the economy, they passed a tax bill that returned $3 trillion in taxes to businesses, embraced the largest peacetime federal deficits i…

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A few days ago, a story broke about US Navy Captain Brett Crozier, commanding officer of the Navy nuclear aircraft carrier the USS Theodore Roosevelt, who sent an email to 20-plus recipients in the Navy. He very eloquently expressed his dismay that his ship, which was in quarantine in Guam, …

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Malibu got a jolt last week when L.A. County Health started breaking out the COVID-19 cases for municipalities with a population smaller than 20,000. We went to bed thinking there were no cases in Malibu and woke up to a press release announcing that we actually had five cases. No further in…

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Ani Dermenjian, longtime Malibu local and current president of Malibu Association of Realtors, celebrates successfully completing this year’s LA Marathon, held March 8, earning her finisher medal as well as this year’s Conqur LA medal, indicating her completion of the Santa Monica Classic, P…

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You have all heard the expression “out of the frying pan into the fire.” Well, I have just jumped from the fire into the pandemic. Just when I thought I had recovered from the fire which destroyed my home, just as I thought I was returning to some sense of normalcy, I find myself hiding in m…

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With so many people contemplating the end of the universe, I thought it a good time to look into its beginning, and so I opened my Bible—the Old Testament that is.  I was looking through Genesis, because I am curious about how we all got here. I have to say I am especially inspired by God’s …

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I’m going nuts, although my friends would say I’ve been nuts for years. This virus named after a Mexican beer and caused by the Chinese (how I love blaming everything on the Mexicans and Chinese) is pushing me right over the edge.

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There seems to be a virus going around, or at least that’s what everybody, from my kids to the folks on the news, keeps telling me 24 hours a day. So what is a humor columnist supposed to do? 

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As we mature  (a euphemistic term for getting older), we have a tendency to look in the rear view mirror to see what our proudest moments have been. I would have titled this blog/column “My Proudest Moments,” but since I only have one, I went with the singular.

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