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Listed below are upcoming and recent events sponsored by Pacific Research Institute.
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Governing California
A Symposium on Solutions for the 21st Century
Start: July 27, 2012 08:00 AM
A program for elected officials, business, labor and community leaders focused on identifying strategies to break the gridlock and restore California’s greatness
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Obama's Education Takeover
Book Launch with Author Lance T. Izumi
Start: February 8, 2012 06:00 PM
Lance T. Izumi, Koret Senior Fellow and PRI's Senior Director of Education Studies discusses his book, "Obama's Education Takeover."
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The Great Pension Debate
Luncheon
Start: April 26, 2011 12:00 PM
Can pensions be reformed co-operatively? Presented with the Lincoln Club of Orange County and the Orange County Forum at the Pacific Club, Newport Beach, CA
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Atlas Shrugged: Part 1
Orange County Opening Night
Start: April 15, 2011 06:45 PM
Concessions & Registration 6:45pm Screening 7:30pm Reception to Follow
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Atlas Shrugged: Part 1
San Francisco Film Premiere
Start: April 14, 2011 06:15 PM
Concessions & Registration 6:15pm Screening 7:00pm Reception to Follow
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Training Seminar for School Board Members
Seminar
Start: December 1, 2010 09:00 AM
The seminar will address critical topics such as the continuing crisis in the state budget, understanding school finance and academic achievement, education technology, and union negotiations.
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November 2010 Elections: Impact and Analysis
Luncheon
Start: October 14, 2010 11:30 AM
Join Columnist and Editorial Writer of the Orange County Register, Brian Calle and Editor in Chief of the CalWatchdog, Steve Greenhut for a very lively and spirited discussion on the outlook of the up-and- coming 2010 elections.
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Medicaid & ObamaCare
The impact of the overhaul law on the states
Start: October 7, 2010 09:30 AM
Please join the Galen Institute and the Institute for Policy Innovation for a forum to explore the impact on the states, patients, and the medical profession of the major expansion of Medicaid under ObamaCare.
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Is health care a right?
Benjamin Rush Society Debate
Start: September 29, 2010 04:30 PM
The Benjamin Rush Society presents a debate on this issue at George Washington University School of Medicine. Please join us at this debate.
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Marin Town Hall "Health Care"
with PRI's John R. Graham
Start: June 22, 2010 07:00 AM
A Marin Town Hall to discuss what the new Healthcare will do and not do for all Americans. John Graham of the Pacific Research Institute will provide factual insight as to what we can expect.
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The Fall of the House of Kennedy
Los Angeles Dinner
Start: June 17, 2010 06:30 PM
Keynote Speaker Daniel Henninger, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Deputy Editor of the Wall Street Journal's Editorial Page Co-Chairs Former Governor Pete Wilson Bill Simon
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Let Freedom Ring!
Cocktail Reception
Start: June 9, 2010 06:30 PM
Mingle with like-minded lovers of freedom and thought leaders while enjoying fine wine and hors d'oeuvres.
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The Debate: Is Health Care A Right?
Benjamin Rush Society Debate
Start: May 14, 2010 12:15 PM
The Benjamin Rush Society presents a debate on this issue at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. Please join us at this debate.
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True Hollywood Scandals, Part II
Luncheon
Start: April 27, 2010 12:00 PM
The Legal Legacy of Anna Nicole Smith: The 9th circuit defends the Constitution in Marshall v. Marshall. Luncheon with legal expert Professor Todd J. Zywicki.
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The Politics of Aspiration
How to Bring the Gold back to the Golden State
Start: March 20, 2010 09:00 AM
Saturday, March 20, 2010 9:00am–3:30pm Island Hotel 690 Newport Center Drive Newport Beach
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After the Fall
Saving Capitalism from Wall Street--and Washington
Start: March 16, 2010 05:45 PM
Author Book Signing Reception with Nicole Gelinas, Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow and City Journal Contributing Editor
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The Obama Administration vs. Free Enterprise
Lunch with Deroy Murdock
Start: March 4, 2010 12:00 PM
The San Francisco Federalist Society and the Pacific Research Institute present "The Obama Administration vs. Free Enterprise" with Deroy Murdock at a lunch on March 4, 2010.
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Advancing Liberty, Creating Change
City Symposium
Start: February 12, 2010 11:30 AM
Media not holding governments’ feet to the fire? Free-market groups are stepping in with new tools of transparency to inform citizens and decisionmakers.
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School Board Training Seminar in San Diego
PRI Seminar
Start: December 2, 2009 09:00 AM
The Pacific Research Institute will be hosting a school board training session on Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego located at 207 5th Avenue.
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Dispelling Health Care Myths
A Commonwealth Club Event
Start: October 26, 2009 06:00 PM
PRI's Sally C. Pipes is the featured guest speaker at this Public Forum event sponsored by the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.
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Not As Good As You Think: The Myth of the Middle Class School
PRI Event - Sacramento
Start: August 25, 2009 05:30 PM
Sacramento, California film screening based on the study "Not As Good As You Think: Why the Middle Class Needs School Choice." Screening followed by a discussion with Lance Izumi, executive producer and author; Nick Tucker, director
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Not As Good As You Think: The Myth of the Middle Class School
PRI Event - Orange County
Start: May 20, 2009 06:00 PM
Orange County film premiere based on the study "Not As Good As You Think: Why the Middle Class Needs School Choice." Screening followed by a discussion with Lance Izumi, executive producer and author; and Nick Tucker, director.
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Not As Good As You Think: The Myth of the Middle Class School
PRI and Heritage Foundation Event
Start: May 19, 2009 12:00 PM
Washington, D.C. film premiere based on the study "Not As Good As You Think: Why the Middle Class Needs School Choice." Screening followed by a discussion with Lance Izumi, executive producer and author; and Nick Tucker, director.
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First 100 Days
PRI Event
Start: April 30, 2009 12:00 PM
An analysis of the Obama Administration's first 100 days - with Dr. Steven F. Hayward, author of the forthcoming The Age of Reagan, Vol. 2: The Conservative Counter-Revolution,1980-1989.
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Capitalism at Work: Business, Government, and Energy
PRI Book Signing and Luncheon
Start: January 27, 2009 12:00 PM
Robert L. Bradley, a former speechwriter to Ken Lay, Enron founder and chairman, and a 16-year Enron employee, argues that Enron’s Achilles’ heel has been wrongly indentified as “capitalism.” Rather, Enron’s boom and bust is the story of how Ken Lay developed a sophisticated business model based on government rent-seeking (political capitalism).
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Training Seminar for School Board Members - Dec. 3, 2008
PRI Seminar
Start: December 3, 2008 09:00 AM
In order to be effective reformers in their districts, school board members must have the best information about policy options, strategies, and what works. The Pacific Research Institute will be hosting a school board training session on Wednesday, December 3, 2008 at the San Diego Manchester Hyatt.
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Do As I Say (Not As I Do)
PRI Event
Start: October 30, 2008 06:00 PM
The Pacific Research Institute presents the San Francisco film premiere of "Do As I Say (Not As I Do)," a film by Steven F. Hayward and Nick Tucker, based on the New York Times bestselling book by Peter Schweizer.
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The Top 10 Myths of American Health
PRI Event
Start: October 27, 2008 06:00 PM
When it comes to the U.S. health care system, there is a set of myths so persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic that it’s easy to see why so many Americans believe that a complete government takeover of our health care system is the answer to all of our problems. Sally Pipes’s new book, The Top 10 Myths of American Health Care will shatter those myths and set the record straight.
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True Hollywood Scandals: The Courtroom Legacy of Anna Nicole Smith
Luncheon and Presentation with Legal Expert Horace Cooper
Start: January 16, 2008 12:00 PM
Anna Nicole Smith’s life was a tabloid’s dream. Even though she passed away almost one year ago, her saga lives on. As the 9th Circuit gets ready to take up her case again, her true legacy comes to light — undermining both federalism and America’s legal system.
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Annual Gala Dinner with Florida Governor Jeb Bush
PRI Event
Start: October 24, 2007 06:00 PM
PRI's Annual Gala Dinner "Celebrating Liberty" featured Governor Jeb Bush as the guest speaker. Katherine E. Boyd, a longtime PRI board member, was presented with the Sir Anthony Fisher Freedom Award. The event was emceed by Peter Robinson, Hoover fellow, fomer Reagan speechwriter and author. PRI thanks all who participated in making this event such a huge success.
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Why the Middle Class Needs School Choice
Heritage Foundation Event
Start: October 15, 2007 12:00 PM
Much of the attention in the education reform debate focuses on the need to improve opportunities for disadvantaged children. But a new book offers a wake-up call to suburban parents: their schools aren’t as good as they think.
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Education Reform & Finance in California
Mercatus Center
Start: September 21, 2007 12:00 PM
After months of careful study, it is clear that California's students are far behind other states on many measures of achievement. Studies have produced unsettling results: California is ranked 3rd lowest in reading and 2nd lowest in science in the nation. What has gone wrong?
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Training Seminar for School Board Members - August 3, 2007
PRI Event
Start: August 3, 2007 09:00 AM
In order to be effective reformers in their districts, school board members must have the best information about policy options, strategies, and what works. Pacific Research Institute's training seminars for school board members provide this much needed information through topic workshops taught by the top experts and practioners in the field. PRI's Orange County training session for school board members,
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Who Owns Your Health Care?
PRI's John R. Graham at CATO event
Start: June 22, 2007
Although many people throughout the world consider America a bastion of free-market medicine, most Americans lack the freedom to control the most basic decisions about their health care. Observers also fail to appreciate how that freedom varies from state to state and how each state can learn from the successes (and failures) of the others.
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Vital Signs and Side Effects
PRI Event
Start: May 31, 2007 12:00 PM
Governor Schwarzenegger and Democratic legislators have proposed health reforms of sweeping scope: and they appear committed to achieving them in 2007. Join an expert panel for a lunch-time discussion about effects of likely California health reforms.
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Tech in the City
PRI Event
Start: May 3, 2007 06:30 PM
Join Lead21 members and our colleagues at Pacific Research Institute for the launch of Sonia Arrison’s new book, Digital Dialogue: Technology, Capitalism, and the Pursuit of Freedom.
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PRI announces results of 2007 California Education Report Card
Event
Start: February 15, 2007 09:30 AM
SAN FRANCISCO -Lance T. Izumi, the Pacific Research Institute’s director of Education Studies, will announce the results of the 2007 California Education Report Card, an evaluation of California’s education system, on Thursday, February 15, 2007, from 9:30 to 10:00 a.m., at the State Capitol Room 1190.
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America's Health Care System is Sick: How to Cure It
PRI Event
Start: January 24, 2007 12:00 PM
We are surrounded by medical miracles: polio has been eradicated; childhood leukemia is now treatable; death by cardiovascular disease has declined by two-thirds in the last 50 years. Yet while American medicine has never been better, angst over American health care has never been greater.
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Evidence, Economics, and Politics: Australia’s Experiment in Evidence-Based Medicine
PRI Event
Start: December 15, 2006 07:30 AM
Australia’s National Health Systems (NHS) provides universal, tax-financed coverage to all citizens. To control the cost of medicines, NHS created a Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) to advise whether and, if so, how government should subsidize drugs. A central feature of PBAC is cost-effectiveness research. With U.S. policymakers searching for ways to rein in Medicare and Medicaid drug spending, the Australian experience assumes special relevance.
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An Inconvenient Truth ... Or Convenient Fiction?
PRI Event
Start: December 14, 2006 10:30 AM
Sorting Out Sense from Nonsense on Global Warming You are invited to attend a special documentary filming session of “An Inconvenient Truth…Or Convenient Fiction” with Dr. Steven Hayward, senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute, F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and author of the annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators.
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Unnecessary Deaths: Hospital Infections are Killing Us
Event
Start: October 16, 2006 12:30 PM
HOSPITAL INFECTIONS KILL AN ESTIMATED 103,000 PEOPLE in this country each year, as many deaths as from AIDS, breast cancer, and auto accidents combined. The suffering is staggering. So is the economic cost. Hospital infections add $30.5 billion to the nation’s health care tab in hospital costs alone, enough to pay for the entire Medicare Part D prescription drug program.
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Training Seminar for School Board Members - University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
Event
Start: August 23, 2006 09:00 AM
The Pacific Research Institute is hosting its highly praised, all-day training seminar for school board members on Wednesday, November 29, at the W Hotel in San Francisco. The seminar will include workshops on improving achievement for English-language learners, creating successful charter schools, securing a reform majority on your school board, and improving high school achievement. Workshop trainers include leading education experts and education practitioners.
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