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New Free Cities Book
Building Cities From Scratch
Steven Greenhut
October 2, 2024
SACRAMENTO – The plan by a group of San Francisco Bay Area venture capitalists to build an entirely new city on ranch land in Solano County between the Bay Area and Sacramento has become one of the most controversial housing ...
Learn more about policies hurting patients
Left’s Medicaid Fixation Harms Patients
Sally C. Pipes
November 6, 2024
Over a three-month period last year, Medicaid enrollment declined by roughly 2 million, a new study in the journal Health Affairs reveals. The sudden contraction was mostly the result of a wind-down of COVID-19-era policies that prevented states from removing ...
Learn more about how the LCFS will hurt families
Changes to California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard Will Cost Families Dearly
Wayne H Winegarden
November 6, 2024
The California Air Resources Board should go back to the drawing board rather than expand a policy that would raise gas prices without meaningfully lowering emissions. At issue is an upcoming vote where this group of unelected bureaucrats will update ...
Learn more about California's doctor shortage
California needs more than medical schools to solve doctor shortage
Sally C. Pipes
November 6, 2024
California doesn’t have enough doctors. This year, the state met just 54% of its primary care needs. It would take 881 more physicians to eliminate all the state’s designated primary care shortage areas, where more than 5.8 million Californians currently ...
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The End of Violence? Not Quite.
In 2019, the San Francisco Chronicle published an in depth look at juvenile justice in California. So struck was the paper by the decline in ...
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New Schizophrenia Drug Represents Promise Of Pharmaceutical Innovation
Late last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Bristol Myers Squibb’s KarXT, a treatment for schizophrenia. The drug, which will be marketed under the ...
‘An idea so bad, Seattle hasn’t done it’
“Homelessness isn’t an identity,” said a full-page ad in the Aug. 25 issue of the Spokane’s Spokesman-Review newspaper. “Tell the City Council to VOTE NO ...
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