Why Are Grocery Prices Still Rising? New Study Says Washington Is Targeting the Wrong Problem
Wayne H Winegarden
August 3, 2026
SACRAMENTO – With grocery prices continuing to climb and Americans searching for answers, a new study released today by the Pacific Research Institute concludes that Washington is focusing on the wrong solution. While the Federal Trade Commission has launched an ...
Watch: Learn How California’s New Reforms Are Making it Easier to Build ADUs
Pacific Research Institute
July 13, 2026
Watch below as a Sacramento-area homeowner gives us a tour of her family’s newly-build ADU and learn how California’s new reforms are making it much easier to build new ADUs.
A new name for a better way to buy health insurance
Sally C. Pipes
September 14, 2026
Federal officials just gave one of the most promising innovations in health insurance a badly needed name change. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has rebranded Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements — otherwise known as ICHRAs — as “CHOICE ...
California court rewinds new AEWR methodology
Pam Lewison
September 14, 2026
A U.S. District Court in California has upended the new U.S. Department of Labor wage calculation methodology for the H-2A visa program in the United States. The judge ordered DOL to create a new methodology while leaving the current wage ...
25 Years Later, America Must Never Forget
Anthony Velasquez
September 11, 2026
I remember September 11, 2001, though I was just a young child living through it. My dad, an airplane parts manufacturer, left for work early that morning while my mom was home with me and pregnant with my little sister. ...
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Watch PRI’s Steve Smith on ABC 7 discussing falling Bay Area crime rates
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