Pacific Research Institute

Commentary

Clarifying Ryan’s Medicare Reform

(Not that Ryan’s retreating from the term will prevent “voucher” being used to describe his reform. Grace-Marie Turner has explained how “premium support” differs from a voucher, but even Ryan supporter Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute insists on describing it as a voucher.) Of course, a good night’s sleep ...
Business & Economics

Conservative Spotlight: Pacific Research Institute

Human Events had it right in 2005 when it named Sally Pipes one of the “Top 10 Women in the Conservative Movement.” As president and CEO of Pacific Research Institute (PRI), Pipes has become an essential voice in the health-care debate, frequently sounding the alarm against the single-payer system. During ...
California

Researcher Paints Scary Picture of State’s Future

The Medi-Cal system in California is flawed in a basic way, according to researcher Stephen Moses of Pacific Research Institute, a California-based think tank. “Instead of Medi-Cal being a safety net for the poor,” he said, “it provides very generous benefits to many in the middle class, far more than ...
Business & Economics

Lawsuit Lottery Must End

In 2004, a Hazelton-area community pool closed after a man jumped into the water, slightly cutting his heel, and then filed a lawsuit claiming $100,000 in damages. While the settlement was significantly less, the owner, fearing future lawsuits, shut down the pool. Now, this once-thriving business, beloved as a summer ...
Agriculture

Ag impacts on environment need closer look, says researcher

SAN FRANCISCO — Is your food making the planet sick? Are your pork chops, your corn chips, your steaks, your breakfast cereal polluting the air, water and land that everyone on Earth depends on to sustain life? The answer, says a Pacific Research Institute researcher who has studied the impact ...
Commentary

Pipes to speak on economic impact of health care bill

COTATI – The Economic Prosperity Institute will host an event titled, “The Truth about ObamaCare” at Sonoma State University on Dec. 9 at 11:45 a.m. Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, will discuss the research and insights in her book of the same title. Ms. Pipes ...
Agriculture

Is Our Food Hazardous To The Planet?

Enough with blaming agriculture for the world’s environmental woes! According to a new report released by the San Francisco, Calif.-based Pacific Research Institute, the environmental impact of raising crops and livestock is often misconstrued. The report, “Is Your Food Making the Planet Sick?” can be downloaded at www.pacificresearch.org/publications/is-your-food-making-the-planet-sick. “Modern agriculture ...
Commentary

Paulson: It’s time for school choice

Take time to watch Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim’s Waiting for Superman, voted best U.S. documentary at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival, and you’ll be confronted with the sorry state of America’s school system. How can America invent a more innovative and profitable future without a quality education system? In ...
Commentary

Lucy Dunn: O.C. business group wary of Obamacare

On Nov. 09, the Register’s Opinion pages published opposing views on health care reform [“Is it time to dismantle health reform law?”], one of which mentioned Orange County Business Council research by Wallace Walrod. OCBC’s report, cited in the piece by Daniel Zingales of the California Endowment, was an initial ...
Commentary

We Pay Twice for a Lousy Job

We’re all familiar with the axiom that anything worth doing is worth doing well, and if you don’t want to do it well, don’t do it at all. Tuition at California public universities went up 32 percent last year. Last week, California State University raised tuition more than 15 percent, ...
Commentary

Clarifying Ryan’s Medicare Reform

(Not that Ryan’s retreating from the term will prevent “voucher” being used to describe his reform. Grace-Marie Turner has explained how “premium support” differs from a voucher, but even Ryan supporter Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute insists on describing it as a voucher.) Of course, a good night’s sleep ...
Business & Economics

Conservative Spotlight: Pacific Research Institute

Human Events had it right in 2005 when it named Sally Pipes one of the “Top 10 Women in the Conservative Movement.” As president and CEO of Pacific Research Institute (PRI), Pipes has become an essential voice in the health-care debate, frequently sounding the alarm against the single-payer system. During ...
California

Researcher Paints Scary Picture of State’s Future

The Medi-Cal system in California is flawed in a basic way, according to researcher Stephen Moses of Pacific Research Institute, a California-based think tank. “Instead of Medi-Cal being a safety net for the poor,” he said, “it provides very generous benefits to many in the middle class, far more than ...
Business & Economics

Lawsuit Lottery Must End

In 2004, a Hazelton-area community pool closed after a man jumped into the water, slightly cutting his heel, and then filed a lawsuit claiming $100,000 in damages. While the settlement was significantly less, the owner, fearing future lawsuits, shut down the pool. Now, this once-thriving business, beloved as a summer ...
Agriculture

Ag impacts on environment need closer look, says researcher

SAN FRANCISCO — Is your food making the planet sick? Are your pork chops, your corn chips, your steaks, your breakfast cereal polluting the air, water and land that everyone on Earth depends on to sustain life? The answer, says a Pacific Research Institute researcher who has studied the impact ...
Commentary

Pipes to speak on economic impact of health care bill

COTATI – The Economic Prosperity Institute will host an event titled, “The Truth about ObamaCare” at Sonoma State University on Dec. 9 at 11:45 a.m. Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, will discuss the research and insights in her book of the same title. Ms. Pipes ...
Agriculture

Is Our Food Hazardous To The Planet?

Enough with blaming agriculture for the world’s environmental woes! According to a new report released by the San Francisco, Calif.-based Pacific Research Institute, the environmental impact of raising crops and livestock is often misconstrued. The report, “Is Your Food Making the Planet Sick?” can be downloaded at www.pacificresearch.org/publications/is-your-food-making-the-planet-sick. “Modern agriculture ...
Commentary

Paulson: It’s time for school choice

Take time to watch Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim’s Waiting for Superman, voted best U.S. documentary at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival, and you’ll be confronted with the sorry state of America’s school system. How can America invent a more innovative and profitable future without a quality education system? In ...
Commentary

Lucy Dunn: O.C. business group wary of Obamacare

On Nov. 09, the Register’s Opinion pages published opposing views on health care reform [“Is it time to dismantle health reform law?”], one of which mentioned Orange County Business Council research by Wallace Walrod. OCBC’s report, cited in the piece by Daniel Zingales of the California Endowment, was an initial ...
Commentary

We Pay Twice for a Lousy Job

We’re all familiar with the axiom that anything worth doing is worth doing well, and if you don’t want to do it well, don’t do it at all. Tuition at California public universities went up 32 percent last year. Last week, California State University raised tuition more than 15 percent, ...
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