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Gore's views misplaced
PRI in the News
5.31.2007
Terry Patterson, who responded to a column I wrote with a letter to the editor, should be careful what he believes on Wikipedia.
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2007 Index of Leading Environmental Indicators
PRI in the News
By: Don Bosch
5.31.2007
Pacific Research Institute has released their Index of Leading Environmental Indicators: 2007 Report. The theme of the Index this year is how tough it’s getting to put together an index. This is because - and I’m injecting my take on their report here - the thick cloud of opinion on the environment (climate change mostly) is fogging over our ability to actually measure what’s going on.
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2 more unattractive health care plans
PRI in the News
5.22.2007
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed in January to require every Californian be covered by health care insurance, and to impose taxes – which he called "fees" – on doctors, hospitals and businesses to subsidize people who can't afford the premiums.
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An Inconvenient Truth or Convenient Fiction?
PRI in the News
By: Jamie Glazov
5.21.2007
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Steve Hayward, the F.K Weyerhaeuser Fellow in Law and Economics at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC, and Senior Fellow at the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy in San Francisco.
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At one year, Mass. healthcare plan falls short
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
5.15.2007
Massachusetts' universal healthcare law turned one in April. To survive, its guardians have had to make many changes, each of which has increased current and future government spending, increased the government's role in regulating the healthcare market, decreased individual responsibility to purchase insurance, and made certain that the plan will fall far short of achieving universal coverage.
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Civil justice costs condemned
PRI in the News
By: Eric Velasco
5.14.2007
Alabama is one of the prime offenders in a U.S. civil litigation system that costs $865 billion per year, 75 percent of which is wasted, two new studies say.
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Jerry Brown To Sue Over Bush Administration Over Fuel Efficiency Standards
PRI in the News
By: Amy Hollyfield
5.14.2007
California's Attorney General Jerry Brown is blasting the Bush administration today, over new gas mileage standards that increase by 1.3 tenths per gallon. It's a controversy that's triggered a lawsuit by California, many other states and some environmental groups. The suit is being heard in San Francisco.
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Should food labels tell you where your food comes from?
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Diana M. Ernst
5.13.2007
Contaminated Chinese wheat gluten, recently identified in America’s pet food, has spurred calls in Congress for increased food-safety regulations. Yet the Senate already is considering a mandatory country-of-origin labeling law, which will add costs but won’t increase safety.
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Giving Bad Policies Another Whirl
Tech Op-Ed
5.11.2007
Observers of recent legislative action in Sacramento should be forgiven for thinking they have been transported back to 2002, when policy makers were pushing government mandated software standards and micromanagement of cell phone companies. Five years later, in 2007, the same bad policies are being recycled -- with one saving grace.
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How to Ensure Phys Ed Accountability
Education Op-Ed
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D., Scott MacKenzie
5.10.2007
Throughout his career as a bodybuilder, actor, and governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger has consistently focused on children’s fitness. For instance, last year he significantly increased funding for physical education. Yet, when it comes to bang for the buck, the governor might want take a look at a public-private physical education program in Southern California that emphasizes accountability and results.
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New Book Tackles Complex Public Policy Issues Confronting the Digital World
Press Release
5.9.2007
The digital revolution has positively transformed society but is threatened by reactionaries who want to choke innovation with bureaucratic and meddlesome rules, according to Digital Dialogue: Technology, Capitalism, and the Pursuit of Freedom, a new book released today by the Pacific Research Institute, a California-based free-market think tank. The book is a compilation of PRI senior fellow Sonia Arrison’s best TechNewsWorld columns from 2004 to 2006.
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Trial lawyers block tort reform
PRI in the News
5.8.2007
According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, America’s civil justice system extracted $261 billion dollars from our economy in 2005, the equivalent of an 8 percent tax on wages. While Pennsylvania does not have the worst climate for business and medical care in the country, it is heading in that direction at an alarming rate. The root cause of these twin dilemmas can be summed up in three words, unbridled trial attorneys. This lobby makes Big Oil and Big Pharma look like pikers.
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Retail Health Clinics Pick up Momentum in Texas
PRI in the News
By: James Rottet
5.7.2007
Retail health clinics are becoming increasingly popular nationwide, and the movement got a boost in Texas on February 15 when Baylor Health Care System and MedBasics announced a formal collaboration.
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Time for legal reform
PRI in the News
By: Ken Weaver
5.7.2007
How much is a pair of pants worth? How about $65 million? This example of the abuse in our legal system is provided by a Washington, D.C., lawyer (actually an administrative law judge by the name of Roy Pearson) who filed a $65 million lawsuit against a small dry cleaning business because they lost a pair of his pants. The civil trial is set for June.
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'Tort tax' harms business
PRI in the News
By: Lewis Fuller
5.3.2007
Wealthy personal injury lawyers are whipping around like a dying snake because of a study by the respected Pacific Research Institute that proves Americans are footing an annual "tort tax" in the hundreds of billions of dollars. That is billions.
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Bully Bargaining
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
5.3.2007
You don't have to be a salesman or a Wall Street power broker to know that for any negotiation to work, both parties must be able to walk away from a deal.
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Moto in Macon Provides Free Access
PRI in the News
By: Eric Griffith
5.2.2007
Motorola (Quote) announced this week that its MotoMesh products are powering the new mesh network in the city of Macon, Georgia.
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'Tort tax' argument groundless
PRI in the News
By: Ralph Cook
5.2.2007
I suppose it was in the spirit of April Fool's Day that a "study" was released last month claiming civil justice attorneys and personal injury cases cost the United States $865 billion a year via a so-called tort tax.
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Expert Says Gore's Claims About Warming Are Extreme
PRI in the News
By: Jim Cross
5.2.2007
A critic of what he calls "global warming alarmism" says extreme claims made by former Vice President Al Gore and others about what is likely to happen in the future that are not backed up by science.
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