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Education

Gail Heriot – A Dubious Expediency: How Race Preferences Damage Higher Education

Gail Heriot, a law professor at the University of San Diego, was co-chair of both the campaign for California’s Prop. 209 in 1996 and the successful campaign to prevent its repeal in 2020. Editor of the new book A Dubious Expediency, she offers compelling reasons to reconsider educational policies that ...
Blog

Been There, Done That on High Speed Rail

Inspired by California’s high-speed rail debacle, the Biden Administration and liberals in Congress have proposed spending tens of billions of dollars to build new high-speed rail networks nationwide. California Has “Been There, Done That” Californians have grown increasingly frustrated with its “train to nowhere,” which is tens of billions of ...
Blackouts

NorCal Record Covers Launch of Electricity Reliability Report

As electricity demands increase this summer, The Pacific Research Institute (PRI) has launched a new website to encourage energy competition that leads to more affordability, innovation and climate change solutions. The initiative is prompted by issues facing the nation overall, but California exemplifies the issues, Dr. Wayne Winegarden, PRI senior fellow in ...
Podcast

Debra Saunders – Covering the Trump White House

This podcast features Debra Saunders, the long-time columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle who turned Trump White House beat reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.  These days Debra Saunders is a fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Chapman Center for Citizen Leadership.  Debra discusses what it was like to be a ...
California

Anne Marie Schubert – The Rising Crime in California

In this podcast our guest is Anne Marie Schubert, District Attorney for Sacramento County.  Ms. Schubert along with 44 DAs are suing Gov. Newsom for his policy to allow 76,000 inmates – including many who committed violent crimes – to attain early release with good behavior credits.  We also discuss ...
Charter Schools

Lance Izumi Interviewed on Controversial Bill Targeting Charter Schools

Board of Education Opposes Bill That Takes Aim at Charter Schools By Jack Bradley The Orange County Board of Education passed a resolution June 2 to oppose a bill that it claims would harm charter schools. Introduced by California Assemblyman Patrick O’Donnell (D-Long Beach), AB 1316 will move through the State Assembly in June. The ...
Environment

Steven Greenhut Featured in Deseret News Column on Western U.S. Drought

As the drought worsens, let’s not be stupid By Jay Evensen The summer of thirst has begun. Maybe you won’t find yourself short of drinking water — we can hope so, anyway — but everything around you won’t be so lucky. Your lawn, your dirty car and the little things ...
Blog

Been There, Done That on Unaffordable Energy Mandates

The Biden Administration wants to impose a national version of California’s unrealistic and unaffordable renewable energy mandates. California Has “Been There, Done That” California has established the nation’s most aggressive renewable portfolio goal, which was just recently increased in 2018, with a goal of generating 100 percent of its electricity ...
Blackouts

California Think Tank Launches “Been There, Done That” Campaign

Campaign Will Show What U.S. Could Face if California Progressive Agenda Goes National SACRAMENTO – With California recently declared by the Los Angeles Times as “the de-facto policy think tank of the Biden-Harris Administration,” the Pacific Research Institute – California’s leading free-market think tank – today launched a “Been There, ...
Obamacare

Erik Jaffe – The U.S. Supreme Court Cases this Session

The featured guest for this podcast Erik Jaffe, partner at Schaerr Jaffe, a constitutional lawyer, and a PRI fellow in Legal Studies.  Erik takes us through a tour of the major U.S. Supreme Court cases this session and the constitutional issues in question, from Obamacare to the First Amendment. Erik ...
Education

Gail Heriot – A Dubious Expediency: How Race Preferences Damage Higher Education

Gail Heriot, a law professor at the University of San Diego, was co-chair of both the campaign for California’s Prop. 209 in 1996 and the successful campaign to prevent its repeal in 2020. Editor of the new book A Dubious Expediency, she offers compelling reasons to reconsider educational policies that ...
Blog

Been There, Done That on High Speed Rail

Inspired by California’s high-speed rail debacle, the Biden Administration and liberals in Congress have proposed spending tens of billions of dollars to build new high-speed rail networks nationwide. California Has “Been There, Done That” Californians have grown increasingly frustrated with its “train to nowhere,” which is tens of billions of ...
Blackouts

NorCal Record Covers Launch of Electricity Reliability Report

As electricity demands increase this summer, The Pacific Research Institute (PRI) has launched a new website to encourage energy competition that leads to more affordability, innovation and climate change solutions. The initiative is prompted by issues facing the nation overall, but California exemplifies the issues, Dr. Wayne Winegarden, PRI senior fellow in ...
Podcast

Debra Saunders – Covering the Trump White House

This podcast features Debra Saunders, the long-time columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle who turned Trump White House beat reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.  These days Debra Saunders is a fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Chapman Center for Citizen Leadership.  Debra discusses what it was like to be a ...
California

Anne Marie Schubert – The Rising Crime in California

In this podcast our guest is Anne Marie Schubert, District Attorney for Sacramento County.  Ms. Schubert along with 44 DAs are suing Gov. Newsom for his policy to allow 76,000 inmates – including many who committed violent crimes – to attain early release with good behavior credits.  We also discuss ...
Charter Schools

Lance Izumi Interviewed on Controversial Bill Targeting Charter Schools

Board of Education Opposes Bill That Takes Aim at Charter Schools By Jack Bradley The Orange County Board of Education passed a resolution June 2 to oppose a bill that it claims would harm charter schools. Introduced by California Assemblyman Patrick O’Donnell (D-Long Beach), AB 1316 will move through the State Assembly in June. The ...
Environment

Steven Greenhut Featured in Deseret News Column on Western U.S. Drought

As the drought worsens, let’s not be stupid By Jay Evensen The summer of thirst has begun. Maybe you won’t find yourself short of drinking water — we can hope so, anyway — but everything around you won’t be so lucky. Your lawn, your dirty car and the little things ...
Blog

Been There, Done That on Unaffordable Energy Mandates

The Biden Administration wants to impose a national version of California’s unrealistic and unaffordable renewable energy mandates. California Has “Been There, Done That” California has established the nation’s most aggressive renewable portfolio goal, which was just recently increased in 2018, with a goal of generating 100 percent of its electricity ...
Blackouts

California Think Tank Launches “Been There, Done That” Campaign

Campaign Will Show What U.S. Could Face if California Progressive Agenda Goes National SACRAMENTO – With California recently declared by the Los Angeles Times as “the de-facto policy think tank of the Biden-Harris Administration,” the Pacific Research Institute – California’s leading free-market think tank – today launched a “Been There, ...
Obamacare

Erik Jaffe – The U.S. Supreme Court Cases this Session

The featured guest for this podcast Erik Jaffe, partner at Schaerr Jaffe, a constitutional lawyer, and a PRI fellow in Legal Studies.  Erik takes us through a tour of the major U.S. Supreme Court cases this session and the constitutional issues in question, from Obamacare to the First Amendment. Erik ...
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