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More E-Voting Red Tape Threatens Ballot Booth Benefits, New Study Says
Press Release
10.31.2006
SAN FRANCISCO – "E-voting" machines are a safe way to cast votes on Election Day, but efforts to add burdensome regulations may diminish their benefits, according to a new edition of a policy study released today by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a non-partisan think tank based in California. Upgrading America's Ballot Box: The Rise of E-voting, 2nd edition, highlights recent evidence that finds using Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) devices are more secure and effective than traditional ballots. The study also offers recommendations to resolve concerns about hardware reliability, faulty software, and voter fraud.
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Tallahassee's road to economic growth uncertain
PRI in the News
By: J. Robert McClure II
10.31.2006
As a life-long Tallahassean, I've heard many an earnest discussion about economic development and the delicate balance between "growth and green." What usually followed, however, was generally long on talk and short on action as ambitious goals gave way to multiple studies that sat on a shelf gathering dust.
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Prop. 86 Pits Tobacco Against Hospitals
PRI in the News
By: Mark Matthews
10.30.2006
KGO - A hotly contested ballot proposition has pitted hospitals against tobacco companies. The tobacco companies are outspending hospitals to defeat Proposition 86 -- that's the measure that would triple the tax on cigarettes.
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Clean Money People In California Pander to the Youth
PRI in the News
By: Cal Ulmann
10.27.2006
The California Nurses Association has taken to pandering to the youth through rap music. The California Nurses Association plans on buying airtime to run commercials. The lyrics to the rap are awful. The first thing that comes to mind when hearing about this campaign is other bad media uses of rap like Fred Flintstone in the Fruity Pebbles commercials.
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For The Record
Health Care Op-Ed
By: John R. Graham
10.25.2006
"States Take Lead on Health Care As Budget Pinch Forces Reform" (A1, Oct. 11) quotes me inaccurately and out of context, leading the reader to believe that I approve of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's discount prescription drug plan for the uninsured.
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Prop. 88: No bang for the new tax buck
Education Op-Ed
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
10.25.2006
SAN FRANCISCO - Proposition 88, the Classroom Learning and Accountability Act on the Nov. 7 ballot, aims to benefit California’s low-performing public school system. The measure is virtually guaranteed to fail and is a horrendous idea for many reasons.
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Money not the answer
PRI in the News
By: Staff Report
10.24.2006
In this year's California gubernatorial campaign, incumbent Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, is boasting that he's increased spending on K-12 education to record levels. His opponent, Democrat Phil Angelides, counters that even more must be spent on education, paid for with higher taxes.
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Prop. 90: Misleading comparisons to Oregon law
Business and Economic Op-Ed
By: Gary Galles
10.23.2006
Opponents assert Proposition 90 safeguards against eminent domain abuses will decimate California's ability to “preserve and protect” wildlife, open space, the coast, farmland, etc. Then they bring in their lynchpin “proof” of its disastrous consequences – Oregon’s Proposition 37 in 2004, the first such property protection initiative to pass. They point to its “Draconian” effects, and say that even worse consequences face California.
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Technology's Impact Depends on Values
Technology Op-Ed
10.20.2006
Technology leaders should use all the tools they can to promote freedom and prosperity throughout the world, but they should remember that the values they help foster may be more important in changing the world than the gadgets they make.
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Business gets lift in tort liability
PRI in the News
By: Kimberly S. Johnson
10.19.2006
Colorado ranks second in the nation when it comes to tort liability practices, which bodes well for business, according to a report from Pacific Research Institute, a San Francisco-based free-market think tank.
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Cost-containment chimeras -- We may be spending too little on drugs
Health Care Op-Ed
By: John R. Graham
10.19.2006
WASHINGTON – AS ELECTION SEASON heats up, there's no end to the handwringing over prescription-drug prices, particularly among Democratic leaders (although Republicans are not immune), who are now clamoring to impose price-controls on the pharmaceutical industry. But can our politicians use the power of the state to lower the price of drugs without doing more harm than good?
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Barnett questions accuracy of Sebelius' latest ad
PRI in the News
By: John Hanna
10.18.2006
TOPEKA, Kan. - Renewing their debate over Kansas' economic strength, Republican challenger Jim Barnett is questioning the accuracy of Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' latest television ad.
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Community vs. individual
PRI in the News
By: Lisa Vorderbrueggen
10.17.2006
Behind Proposition 90's land-use legalese is an abiding societal dilemma: When do the rights of the community trump the rights of the individual?
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Study looks at diversity, turnover
PRI in the News
By: George Avalos
10.13.2006
Corporate America's efforts to promote ethnic and gender diversity on the job have not triggered an overall rise in turnover, though some people who feel greatly outnumbered by other ethnic groups are more likely to quit.
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Thank You for Gambling
Technology Op-Ed
10.13.2006
In the recent movie "Thank You for Smoking," a tobacco lobbyist comes under fire for working to protect people's right to smoke. A similar movie could be made about gambling and the villain would be Representative Bob Goodlatte.
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New PRI Pamphlet Dispels Promises of Proposition 89
Press Release
10.10.2006
SAN FRANCISCO –Proposition 89, the Clean Money and Fair Elections Act on the November 7 ballot, is a form of welfare for politicians, according to a pamphlet released today by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California.
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Proposition 86 Guarantees California Hospitals a River of Cash with No Accountability
Press Release
10.10.2006
SAN FRANCISCO – Proposition 86 will reduce patient focus, competition among California hospitals, harm smokers, draw more kids into government-run health care programs, and create a violent bootlegging trend, according to “Keep Tobacco Money Out of Our Hospitals,” a new voter-education pamphlet released today by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California. The new pamphlet is part of
a Decision 2006 policy series published by PRI.
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New PRI Pamphlet Explains Why Proposition 90 is Critical to Protecting Property Rights of Californians
Press Release
10.10.2006
California needs eminent-domain and regulatory-takings protections according to a new voter-education pamphlet published today by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI). “Proposition 90: Righting Property Wrongs,” authored by Steven Greenhut, senior editorial writer and columnist for the Orange County Register, outlines why the Protect Our Homes Initiative (Prop. 90) provides important safeguards for California property owners.
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Americans for Prosperity to Kick Off Statewide 'California Taxpayer Trust Tour'' on Oct. 23
Press Release
10.10.2006
SAN FRANCISCO – Proposition 86 will reduce patient focus, competition among California hospitals, harm smokers, draw more kids into government-run health care programs, and create a violent bootlegging trend, according to “Keep Tobacco Money Out of Our Hospitals,” a new voter-education pamphlet released today by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California. The new pamphlet is part of
a Decision 2006 policy series published by PRI.
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Proposition 86: Keep Tobacco Money Out of Our Hospitals
PolicyCast
By: John R. Graham, Joshua S. Treviño
10.9.2006
"Prop. 86 guarantees California hospitals a 'river of cash' of $750 million over 1 percent of their current gross revenues for which they are entirely unaccountable" said John R. Graham, director of Health Care Studies at the PRI. It reduces their incentives to care for patients from whom they would earn less revenue and increases their dependency on tobacco money.
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EPA chief calls bills harmful for Ohio
PRI in the News
By: Ted Wendling. Bureau Chief
10.9.2006
Columbus - Ohio's top environmental regulator warns that business-friendly legislation supported by gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell would endanger the environment and public health, including by subjecting the state's water systems to threats of terrorism.
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Give HSAs a chance
Health Care Op-Ed
By: John R. Graham
10.9.2006
Today, more than 3 million Americans have chosen health savings accounts for their health-care coverage, according to the U.S. Treasury Department, which also estimates that 21 million Americans will have invested in HSAs by 2010 -- not bad for a product the government only allowed in January 2004.
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Fight Medicaid Monster, not Wal-Mart
Health Care Op-Ed
By: John R. Graham
10.9.2006
This summer, a federal court overturned Maryland's so-called Fair Share Health Care law. This law would have forced large employers, primarily Wal-Mart, to spend at least 8 percent of their payrolls on health care or contribute an equal amount to Maryland Medicaid. This wrongheaded bill arose from the notion that Wal-Mart relies on Medicaid to provide health care to many of its employees, thus forcing other taxpayers to subsidize its labor costs.
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Proposition 87, the Clean Energy Initiative, lacks assurances, details
PRI in the News
By: Gary Galles
10.5.2006
Proposition 87, the California Clean Energy Initiative, is shaping up as the most contentious item on the November ballot. To judge whether this measure would be good public policy, voters will need detailed information. Proposition 87, however, offers "solutions" too vague for anyone to evaluate what its $4 billion will buy.
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Nurses vow to strike if ruling is used
PRI in the News
By: George Avalos
10.5.2006
Leaders of unionized nurses in the Bay Area and elsewhere in California vowed Wednesday to strike rather than capitulate if hospitals seek to enforce a federal ruling that nurses who have minor duties as supervisors could be designated managers and no longer be able to participate in a union.
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Ohio's legal system is improving
PRI in the News
By: Rep. David Daniels
10.4.2006
During the 126th General Assembly, the Ohio House of Representatives has worked hard to make Ohio a better place to live and work.
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Public-employee pensions under fire
PRI in the News
By: Molly Hennessy-Fiske
10.3.2006
HADDONFIELD, N.J. - Public-employee pensions, one of the last bastions of guaranteed retirement plans in America, are under assault as cash-strapped state and local governments struggle to cover rising costs and resentful taxpayers refuse to pay more to cover them.
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Schwarzenegger Signs California Cable Franchise Bill
PRI in the News
10.2.2006
Service providers that want to offer cable TV services in California will now find a more welcoming regulatory climate, given new statewide franchise rules. Gov. Schwarzenegger late last week signed AB 2987, which allows telecommunications companies to receive a single permit to deliver Internet and television services to homes and businesses instead of having to apply for individual permits with cities and counties.
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Tort Reform Texas Style
PRI in the News
By: Terry Carter
10.1.2006
While Texas plaintiffs lawyers have been leaving in droves from nursing-home and medical-malpractice litigation in the wake of tort reform, San Antonio’s Glenn Cunningham is still doing it—albeit with a radically different business model and a much thinner wallet.
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