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We've got some news to report here in Malibu and it's not about Britney or Barbra or Cher or septic tanks or even our annual mainstays, fire, flood and mudslides. (Is it just me or are the Santa Ana's a bit late this year?)

A deal to build a Santa Monica City College on a seven-acre site adjoining Malibu City Hall has fallen through. No reason given. Other land in the area remains under consideration. The Malibu Times has the details.

The proposed Liquefied Natural Gas terminal is defining the race for governor, according to the PCH Press.

Every news outlet you've ever (and never) heard of wants to tell you that Mel's still really sorry he's an anti-Semite when he's plastered. (And ABC really, really hopes you'll watch tonight as Diane Sawyer make Mel squirm while says so.)

The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy is being sued by taxpayers who allege the misuse of $385,000 in state bond funds, according to the LA Times.

October 11, 2006 08:14 PM • Native Intelligence • Email the editor

6:08 PM Thu | Obama's real Hollywood friends

2:58 PM Thu | Change you can buy into

2:27 PM Thu | Fairchild killing DNR

1:56 PM Thu | Metrolink and freight train 'scrape' in Rialto

1:52 PM Thu | Times rakes it in on Obama merchandise

Citigroup considers sale

5:07 PM Thu | WSJ reports that Citigroup executive are looking into the possibility of selling the financial giant or auctioning off pieces.

Roubini told us so

2:29 PM Thu | The NYU professor has predicted with confounding accuracy that the markets will keep going down.

Going through 'The Changes'

TJ Sullivan | Without referencing its recent layoff, the Ventura County Star's editor says the suburban LA paper is now "more streamlined and, in many ways, much more efficient."

Lost thunder: BLM preparing to execute 30,000 wild horses

Deanne Stillman | We stripped the Indians of their ponies, and now we're doing it to ourselves.

LA's fire-orange sun

TJ Sullivan | When the sun looks like that, there's a big fire somewhere regardless of whether we see or smell smoke.

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