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Read the latest about California's misguided energy policies
As Chevron Exits California, Will Still Attempt to Buy Its Oil Refineries?
Itâs unlikely that was the plan. But it is interesting that at roughly the same time Chevron made its announcement, which was no surprise to Gov. Gavin Newsomâs office, the California Energy Commission issued a staff report that includes a dedicated section (Chapter 3, page 7) on âState-Owned Refineries.â Itâs ...
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Read the latest from PRI's Free Cities Center
States right to âpre-emptâ cities that violate citizensâ liberty
Conservatives and right-of-center types tend to believe in the Jeffersonian principle that âââthe government closest to the people serves the people best.â As brilliant as Thomas Jefferson was, he couldnât possibly get everything right, and on this count, heâs only about half correct. Sure, itâs easier to march down to ...
Business & Economics
Read the latest on gig work and worker freedom
Kamala Harris Is Bad News for Gig Workers
Two million independent contractors caught a break from the California supreme court when it recently upheld a ballot initiative that was intended to overcome Sacramentoâs patently obvious effort to outlaw gig work. Any celebrations should wait, though. The administration wants to take Californiaâs war on worker freedom national. The PRO ...
Business & Economics
New study shows fast food minimum wage law already a disaster
Is it too soon to declare Californiaâs $20-an-hour minimum wage for fast food workers a disaster? After all, it became law only four months ago. How much harm could have been done in such a narrow time frame? Short answer? Quite a bit. The results of a just-released business survey ...
Commentary
Californians Will Have to Use Less Water Under State Boardâs New Rules
Itâs been said in different ways by a variety of people, but thereâs more than just a grain of truth in it: If the federal bureaucracy or a socialist regime were ever put in charge of the Sahara Desert, there would eventually be a shortage of sand. This helps explain ...
Commentary
Read about Kamala Harris' California crime record
Kamala Harris played a key role in Californiaâs crime catastrophe â voters should be very worried
If what Kamala Harris helped do to California is an indication of what sheâd do the nation, voters should be very, very worried. As state attorney general from 2011 to 2017, Harris refused to take a position on two ballot initiatives that have come to define modern California â but her office ...
Business & Economics
Biden’s rent-control plan will only make Americaâs housing crisis worse
President Joe Biden is suggesting that a federal limit on annual rent increases in residential units will ease housing costs. This is what happens when economist Milton Friedman isn’t “running the show”: Policymakers follow ideas that make the problem they say they’re solving infinitely worse. “While the prior administration gave special ...
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Learn about the high costs of California's green mandates
Los Angelesâ Costly Path to an All âClean Powerâ Future
Californiaâs energy transition is moving along about as smoothly as Joe Bidenâs reelection campaign. Both are incoherent, have encountered hurdles they canât scale and have made promises that canât be kept. Californiaâs race to produce greenhouse-gas emission-free power by 2045, for instance, has hit a snag in Los Angeles, where ...
California
Read the latest on CA outmigration
Is Atlas shrugging in California?
The working title for the Ayn Rand classic âAtlas Shruggedâ was âThe Strike.â Rand wanted to show what the world would be like if the competent, the rational, the men and women of excellence walked away from their work. It was a ârebellion of the unrecognized and often persecuted creative ...
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Green Vs. Green
Some might recall the âRedwood Summerâ of 1990, when âthousands of environmentalistsâ gathered on Californiaâs North Coast to protest a timber harvest. âThey blocked roads, sat in trees and chained themselves to logging equipment to halt old-growth cutting,â recalls High Country News. There were also âââshoving matches, screaming confrontations and ...
Read the latest about California's misguided energy policies
As Chevron Exits California, Will Still Attempt to Buy Its Oil Refineries?
Itâs unlikely that was the plan. But it is interesting that at roughly the same time Chevron made its announcement, which was no surprise to Gov. Gavin Newsomâs office, the California Energy Commission issued a staff report that includes a dedicated section (Chapter 3, page 7) on âState-Owned Refineries.â Itâs ...
Read the latest from PRI's Free Cities Center
States right to âpre-emptâ cities that violate citizensâ liberty
Conservatives and right-of-center types tend to believe in the Jeffersonian principle that âââthe government closest to the people serves the people best.â As brilliant as Thomas Jefferson was, he couldnât possibly get everything right, and on this count, heâs only about half correct. Sure, itâs easier to march down to ...
Read the latest on gig work and worker freedom
Kamala Harris Is Bad News for Gig Workers
Two million independent contractors caught a break from the California supreme court when it recently upheld a ballot initiative that was intended to overcome Sacramentoâs patently obvious effort to outlaw gig work. Any celebrations should wait, though. The administration wants to take Californiaâs war on worker freedom national. The PRO ...
New study shows fast food minimum wage law already a disaster
Is it too soon to declare Californiaâs $20-an-hour minimum wage for fast food workers a disaster? After all, it became law only four months ago. How much harm could have been done in such a narrow time frame? Short answer? Quite a bit. The results of a just-released business survey ...
Californians Will Have to Use Less Water Under State Boardâs New Rules
Itâs been said in different ways by a variety of people, but thereâs more than just a grain of truth in it: If the federal bureaucracy or a socialist regime were ever put in charge of the Sahara Desert, there would eventually be a shortage of sand. This helps explain ...
Read about Kamala Harris' California crime record
Kamala Harris played a key role in Californiaâs crime catastrophe â voters should be very worried
If what Kamala Harris helped do to California is an indication of what sheâd do the nation, voters should be very, very worried. As state attorney general from 2011 to 2017, Harris refused to take a position on two ballot initiatives that have come to define modern California â but her office ...
Biden’s rent-control plan will only make Americaâs housing crisis worse
President Joe Biden is suggesting that a federal limit on annual rent increases in residential units will ease housing costs. This is what happens when economist Milton Friedman isn’t “running the show”: Policymakers follow ideas that make the problem they say they’re solving infinitely worse. “While the prior administration gave special ...
Learn about the high costs of California's green mandates
Los Angelesâ Costly Path to an All âClean Powerâ Future
Californiaâs energy transition is moving along about as smoothly as Joe Bidenâs reelection campaign. Both are incoherent, have encountered hurdles they canât scale and have made promises that canât be kept. Californiaâs race to produce greenhouse-gas emission-free power by 2045, for instance, has hit a snag in Los Angeles, where ...
Read the latest on CA outmigration
Is Atlas shrugging in California?
The working title for the Ayn Rand classic âAtlas Shruggedâ was âThe Strike.â Rand wanted to show what the world would be like if the competent, the rational, the men and women of excellence walked away from their work. It was a ârebellion of the unrecognized and often persecuted creative ...
Green Vs. Green
Some might recall the âRedwood Summerâ of 1990, when âthousands of environmentalistsâ gathered on Californiaâs North Coast to protest a timber harvest. âThey blocked roads, sat in trees and chained themselves to logging equipment to halt old-growth cutting,â recalls High Country News. There were also âââshoving matches, screaming confrontations and ...
