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More scrutiny for CIRM and big-government health care
Eureka Reporter Op-Ed
By: Diana M. Ernst
3.31.2008
State Sen. Sheila Kuehl, California’s leading partisan for government monopoly health care, has assumed the role of consumer watchdog. Her new measure, Senate Bill 1565, “Stem Cell Research — Public Accountability and Access,” targets problems with the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Some may wonder if the senator should be pointing fingers, but CIRM does seem to lack accountability.
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Tort report: Va. a ‘sucker,’ Md. a ‘sinner’
Washington Examiner Clipping
3.31.2008
Voters in the Potomac region recently cast their ballots, but the presidential primary is not the only contest worthy of note. The race to create the most efficient state legal system reveals a few winners and many losers.
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CNBC TV - Discussing the Fed
CNBC Kudlow & Company
3.28.2008
An outlook on the Fed, with Lee Hoskins, former Federal Reserve Bank president and PRI senior fellow and CNBC's Larry Kudlow.
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We aren't the world
Free Lance Star (VA) Clipping
3.27.2008
BLUE IN THE FACE we have preached ourselves over the years arguing that punitive damages are a multifaceted disgrace. Lo, now comes an ally: the world.
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Researcher Rebukes Wireless 'Net Neutrality' Advocates
TelecomWeb
3.26.2008
The attempt to force network neutrality on wireless carriers will result in disaster and is based on faulty assumptions, including one that there ever was neutrality on the Internet, according to a newly released analysis from the Pacific Research Institute (PRI).
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Pacific Research Institute Releases Study on Wireless “Net Neutrality”
PRI Press Release
3.26.2008
San Francisco (March 26) – Today, the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California, released its report Wireless with Strings Attached: Net Neutrality and the Grounding of Wireless Innovation. The report shows how “net neutrality” legislation harms the consumer, stifles innovation, and risks destroying a competitive wireless market.
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Nuclear Renaissance?
Sacramento Union Op-Ed
By: Thomas Tanton
3.26.2008
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger believes that nuclear power has “a great future” and that it is time to “relook at that issue again rather than just looking the other way and living in denial.” The governor made these comments March 14 in Santa Barbara, at the “ECO:nomics” conference sponsored by the Wall Street Journal. His views are making waves in environmental and energy circles.
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What ‘net neutrality’ really means to consumers
Washington Examiner (DC)
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D
3.26.2008
In the past, when government has attempted to regulate networks, the result has been less choice, less innovation and more corruption. In the telecommunications industry, such regulations were so damaging that a second wave of regulations was devised to undo the damage caused by the first.
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Illinois is a lawsuit magnet
Springfield State Journal-Register (IL) Clipping
By: Travis Akin
3.23.2008
Every day we seem to be inundated with yet even more grim economic news. With the nation's economy apparently teetering, Illinois is in the uncomfortable position of facing the possibility of a recession without the luxury of ever fully recovering from the last one.
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Tech Market of the Future: The Brain
Tech News World Op-Ed
3.21.2008
The Alzheimer's Association recently reported that one out of eight baby boomers is expected to get Alzheimer's disease, creating a total of 10 million victims. This staggering prediction underscores the need for brain health and augmentation, a new market that tech players are fortunately beginning to enter.
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State legislators: There's gold in that 'net
San Francisco Business Times Op-Ed
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D
3.21.2008
California's lawmakers seek to derail one of the state's thriving industries: the technology sector. This bipartisan agenda targets e-commerce, arming bureaucrats with vast new authority to monitor, regulate and tax the Internet.
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Battling Wall St. Crisis
CNBC TV "Larry Kudlow" show
3.19.2008
Lee Hoskins, Pacific Research Institute Sr. Fellow, on CNBC's Larry Kudlow discussing Federal Reserve's latest rate cuts.
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Is N.C. a 'sucker' state?
News & Observer (NC)
3.19.2008
A new report says North Carolina is a "sucker" because its legal climate is ripe for greedy lawyers seeking a payday.
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The Fed at the Buzzer
New York Times Clipping
By: Tobin Harshaw
3.18.2008
The other March Madness? The Federal Reserve, in complete crisis mode, is widely expected to cut the federal funds rate this week, but one of its own is taking issue.
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Memo To The Fed: Stop Those Rate Cuts
Forbes.com Op-Ed
By: W. Lee Hoskins, Ph.D
3.17.2008
The markets rallied last Tuesday in response to the Fed's growing assistance to holders of mortgage-backed securities. Yet many onlookers are convinced that an aggressive cut in the federal funds rate at the upcoming March 18 meeting is still necessary to avoid a painful recession. In our view, further loosening at this time would be a mistake, and would also send an alarming signal regarding future monetary policy.
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Report compares state tort environments.
Florida Orthopaedic Society
By: Fraser Cobbe
3.16.2008
A report released by the not-for-profit Pacific Research Institute ranks the best and worst state tort systems in the United States. "U.S. Tort Liability Index: 2008 Report" valuated the tort laws of each state, in addition to taking into consideration tort costs and litigation risks.
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Essay 4: The U.S. Digital Divide Hysteria
Who can keep up with this new media? Blog News Clipping
By: mlennert
3.15.2008
The idea of the digital divide in the U.S., like everything technology-related, has already become outdated. There continues to be a misguided belief that in the U.S. there is a huge gap between techno-haves and techno-have-nots. While this may seem perfectly logical, the statistics just don’t bear it out.
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New Speaker Must Support Charter School Success
Sacramento Union Op-Ed
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
3.14.2008
The California Charter Schools Association held its 15th Annual Meeting in Sacramento in early March. More than 2,000 charter teachers, principals and leaders from across California and the country attended. The conference came on the heels of the election of Assemblywoman Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, as the 67th Speaker of the Assembly.
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California a "sinner" on lawsuits
Sacramento Bee Capital Alert
By: Dan Walters
3.14.2008
California is listed as a “sinner” when it comes to the risk and cost of liability lawsuits, according to a new state-by-state study by the conservative, San Francisco-based Pacific Research Institute.
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Group ranks Nevada 36th in tort reform
reviewjournal.com Clipping
By: David Kihara
3.12.2008
A San Francisco-based nonprofit organization that supports limiting jury awards against corporations has ranked Nevada near the bottom in the nation for tort reforms.
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Study: Pa.'s Tort System Nearly The Worst
The Bulletin (Philadelphia, PA) News Clipping
By: Bradley Vasoli
3.12.2008
A policy institute yesterday released a report that ranked Pennsylvania's legal climate the sixth worst in the nation in terms of both state policy and cost of litigation.
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Report praises Colorado's tort laws
Denver Business Journal
3.11.2008
A ranking released Tuesday says Colorado has the best tort laws in the nation. The ranking by the Pacific Research Institute of San Francisco compared the legal climates of each state in a report titled "U.S. Tort Liability Index: 2008 Report."
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Legal Costs, Driving Out Economic Growth
ShopFloor.org News Clipping
By: Carter Wood
3.11.2008
The Pacific Research Institute has just released its latest study on the civil litigation climates in each of the states, "U.S. Tort Liability Index: 2008 Report." Indexwise, good news for North Dakota, bad news for Florida.
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Illinois, NY among usual tort suspects in PRI study
Legal Newsline.com News Clipping
By: Rob Luke
3.11.2008
SAN FRANCISCO -- Florida ranks worst in two key litigation-risk factors for business but will likely improve in future thanks to recent tort-reform measures, a nationwide study revealed today.
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Town leaders knew of rising trash fees
Waterbury Republican American Clipping
3.10.2008
Americans pay a "tort tax" of $865 billion a year, according to last year's estimate by the Pacific Research Institute. This figure represents money taken out of the economy via awards, settlements, lawsuit-avoidance tactics and price inflation of products and services provided by litigation-prone industries. The scholarship is challenging, but the principle is quite simple. When a lot of people sue, costs rise.
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We’re No. 8: decoding the Advanced Placement spin
The Eureka Reporter Op-Ed
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
3.9.2008
Recently, the College Board released the results of Advanced Placement tests placing California eighth in the nation, with nearly one in five public school students scoring a college-credit-earning three or better on at least one 2007 AP exam. The news came with a positive spin, but there is a lot more to the story that policy makers and parents should know.
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On Those Oil Profits
Townhall Op-Ed
3.8.2008
When it comes to public hatred of big business, there's no better target than oil companies. This hatred has been all the more intense since Exxon Mobil announced last year's net income at $40.6 billion, the largest-ever profit for a publicly-traded company. With the threat of recession looming, many policymakers have been tempted to pay for relief measures by raising taxes on "Big Oil"—including the House's recent bill rolling back tax deductions on integrated oil companies (though leaving them in place for other companies).
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Health 2.0: A Promising Prescription
Tech News World Op-Ed
3.7.2008
Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) recent announcement that it is creating a home for personal health records online is a natural outgrowth of Silicon Valley's Web 2.0 consumer Internet focus. The question this raises is whether a market-driven system is better for keeping health records than one run by the government.
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Monopoly players shouldn't pass 'Go'
Georgetown News-Graphic Clipping
By: Jim Waters
3.4.2008
ABC's John Stossel in a "20/20" report examined America's education system in a segment called "Stupid in America." It wasn't pretty.
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Skeptics of global warming meet in N.Y.
Washington Post
By: Juliet Eilperin
3.4.2008
When Christopher Monckton, who served as a special adviser to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, ponders the current political push to curb greenhouse gases linked to climate change, he thinks of King Canute.
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Making the Mortgage Mess Worse
Flash Report Op-Ed
3.3.2008
Recently the Bush administration unveiled a plan for homeowners facing foreclosure to receive a 30-day reprieve from their creditors. This might come as welcome news in Sacramento where a jaw-dropping 46 percent of December sales were foreclosed homes. Unfortunately, the latest plan-as well as earlier government ideas to freeze rate resets on adjustable rate mortgages-will only exacerbate the mortgage and housing crisis.
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Piping a Different Tune
Health Affairs, 27, (no 2) Letter
By: Sally C. Pipes
3.1.2008
This journal continues its tradition of publishing hostile reviews about Harvard University professor Regina Herzlinger’s books with the one by Alan Maynard (Nov/Dec 07).
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