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What We’re Watching – September 20
Tim Anaya – How Rent Control Hurts Renters In the wake of the Legislature’s passage of AB 1482, so-called “rent gouging” legislation (which is really just another name for rent control), this great video from Prager U featuring Manhattan Institute scholar Nicole Gelinas shows just how government rent control policies ...
California
Steven Greenhut – 2019 End-of-Session Wrap-Up
Longtime Capitol journalist Steven Greenhut of the R Street Institute joins us for our annual end-of-session wrap-up. We discuss all the hot issues from this legislative session, including the debate over who is an independent contractor and who is an employee, the fight over charter schools, the potential return of ...
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What We’re Watching – September 13
Kerry Jackson – President Trump to the Rescue on CA’s Homeless Problem? California’s homeless problem has become so troubling that the president, who has been in a running feud Sacramento, has even decided to try to help. Evan Harris – After devastating fires, Paradise football team gives a community hope ...
Education
Colin Sharkey – What Do California Teachers Think About Their Newly-Won Worker Freedoms?
Association of American Educators executive director Colin Sharkey joins us to discuss a new survey from their Teacher Freedom project on the attitudes of teachers one year after the historic Janus decision and shares insight on what teachers think about their union, their newly-won worker freedoms, and whether more disaffected ...
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What We’re Watching – September 6
Tim Anaya – Channeling My Inner Phil Donahue In case you missed it, check out the video of a recent PRI luncheon with UC Berkeley Law Professor John Yoo and PRI’s Dr. Steven Hayward – also a Berkeley prof – on the battle for free speech on college campuses. Thanks ...
Charter Schools
Lance Izumi – Will So-Called Compromise Cripple Future Charter School Expansion in California?
Lance Izumi, PRI’s Senior Director of Education Studies, joins us to discuss perhaps the most controversial education legislation in recent memory – a so-called compromise that would impose significant new requirements and restrictions on charter schools in California. Lance analyzes the key provisions of the legislation and the motivation behind ...
Education
Watch PRI Event on Universities, Diversity and Free Speech on C-SPAN
Watch C-SPAN’s national TV coverage of PRI’s recent lunch event with University of California Berkeley Law Professor John Yoo, who served as the deputy assistant U.S. attorney general during the George W. Bush administration, and PRI senior fellow and current UC Berkeley Professor Dr. Steven Hayward for a discussion about ...
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What We’re Watching – August 30
Tim Anaya – Remembering a Sacramento Culinary Icon News came on Thursday that Sacramento’s cooking icon Biba Caggiano passed away at the age of 82. Anyone who has spent any time on the Sacramento political scene has spent more than one enjoyable meal at Biba’s. Her lasagna, which is so ...
Featured
Andy McCarthy on his new book Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency
National Review’s Andy McCarthy joins us to discuss his new book The Ball of Collusion. No one is better than McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor who earned the Justice Department’s highest honor, to provide perspective on the Trump investigation into Russian “collusion.” In our conversation, McCarthy exposes the depth of ...
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What We’re Watching – August 23
Tim Anaya – What Would Have Happened if the US Bought Greenland in 1946? This week brought the unusual dispute between the Trump Administration and Denmark after being rebuffed over a proposal to purchase Greenland. In the coverage of the issue, it was reported that Harry Truman offered to buy ...
What We’re Watching – September 20
Tim Anaya – How Rent Control Hurts Renters In the wake of the Legislature’s passage of AB 1482, so-called “rent gouging” legislation (which is really just another name for rent control), this great video from Prager U featuring Manhattan Institute scholar Nicole Gelinas shows just how government rent control policies ...
Steven Greenhut – 2019 End-of-Session Wrap-Up
Longtime Capitol journalist Steven Greenhut of the R Street Institute joins us for our annual end-of-session wrap-up. We discuss all the hot issues from this legislative session, including the debate over who is an independent contractor and who is an employee, the fight over charter schools, the potential return of ...
What We’re Watching – September 13
Kerry Jackson – President Trump to the Rescue on CA’s Homeless Problem? California’s homeless problem has become so troubling that the president, who has been in a running feud Sacramento, has even decided to try to help. Evan Harris – After devastating fires, Paradise football team gives a community hope ...
Colin Sharkey – What Do California Teachers Think About Their Newly-Won Worker Freedoms?
Association of American Educators executive director Colin Sharkey joins us to discuss a new survey from their Teacher Freedom project on the attitudes of teachers one year after the historic Janus decision and shares insight on what teachers think about their union, their newly-won worker freedoms, and whether more disaffected ...
What We’re Watching – September 6
Tim Anaya – Channeling My Inner Phil Donahue In case you missed it, check out the video of a recent PRI luncheon with UC Berkeley Law Professor John Yoo and PRI’s Dr. Steven Hayward – also a Berkeley prof – on the battle for free speech on college campuses. Thanks ...
Lance Izumi – Will So-Called Compromise Cripple Future Charter School Expansion in California?
Lance Izumi, PRI’s Senior Director of Education Studies, joins us to discuss perhaps the most controversial education legislation in recent memory – a so-called compromise that would impose significant new requirements and restrictions on charter schools in California. Lance analyzes the key provisions of the legislation and the motivation behind ...
Watch PRI Event on Universities, Diversity and Free Speech on C-SPAN
Watch C-SPAN’s national TV coverage of PRI’s recent lunch event with University of California Berkeley Law Professor John Yoo, who served as the deputy assistant U.S. attorney general during the George W. Bush administration, and PRI senior fellow and current UC Berkeley Professor Dr. Steven Hayward for a discussion about ...
What We’re Watching – August 30
Tim Anaya – Remembering a Sacramento Culinary Icon News came on Thursday that Sacramento’s cooking icon Biba Caggiano passed away at the age of 82. Anyone who has spent any time on the Sacramento political scene has spent more than one enjoyable meal at Biba’s. Her lasagna, which is so ...
Andy McCarthy on his new book Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency
National Review’s Andy McCarthy joins us to discuss his new book The Ball of Collusion. No one is better than McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor who earned the Justice Department’s highest honor, to provide perspective on the Trump investigation into Russian “collusion.” In our conversation, McCarthy exposes the depth of ...
What We’re Watching – August 23
Tim Anaya – What Would Have Happened if the US Bought Greenland in 1946? This week brought the unusual dispute between the Trump Administration and Denmark after being rebuffed over a proposal to purchase Greenland. In the coverage of the issue, it was reported that Harry Truman offered to buy ...
