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CAPITAL IDEAS: California’s Past, Even if Not Perfect, Set Up Its Prosperous Future

DOWNLOAD PDF Even before it was a state, California was the New World’s new world. Everything that the Western Hemisphere promised was condensed and amplified in what became the 31st state. Not only was it arguably the greatest land of opportunity in human history, but rather than having exhausted itself ...
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California Poised for Massive State Budget Spending Increases

Viewers of President Biden’s speech to Congress last week may have been struck by size of the trillions in new federal spending the President outlined in his speech.  In advance of the President’s speech, Democrats in the California Legislature had a message for Washington – hold my beer! Assembly and ...
California

Good Morning Arizona Interviews Steven Greenhut on “Mega-Drought” in the West

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) – Are we running out of water? It’s a scary thought but a possible reality for states like Arizona that are facing droughts. Some scientists warn the Grand Canyon State and the rest of the West may be headed for the worst megadrought in history. According to the ...
Agriculture

KMVT Idaho Interviews Steven Greenhut on the West’s “Mega-Drought”

Much of the western United States is running out of water with much of Southern Idaho in the abnormally dry or moderate drought categories. Nearly 80% of the American West is in a drought and now is the time to think about the future of Idaho water. With much of ...
Agriculture

Facing Down Fear of a Mega-Drought

Four years ago, then-Gov. Jerry Brown announced the end of California’s historically severe drought by lifting various emergency restrictions. “This drought emergency is over, but the next drought could be around the corner,” the governor intoned. “Conservation must remain a way of life.” Brown was right about the next drought now ...
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Winners and Losers – April 16

Tim Anaya – Senior Director of Communications and PRI’s Sacramento Office Winner:  John Boehner, the Author – Former House Speaker John Boehner has apparently released quite the entertaining new memoir of his time as Speaker, with the publication of On The House.  While I would love someday to have a ...
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Corrupting Infrastructure in Order to Expand the Federal Government’s Size and Scope

Allusions to George Orwell’s 1984 are often overdone, but the applicability is simply too great to ignore. After all, how else do you refer to a proposed $2.7 trillion infrastructure package that spends only 16-cents on the dollar for infrastructure? Having reviewed the President’s proposed package based on the White ...
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Maybe It Won’t Be So Easy to Pass These Tax Hikes

Much of the political energy in Sacramento and Washington lately has focused on taxes.  Speculation has focused on which taxes liberal politicians will raise, and by how much.  While pundits are all but declaring it a fait accompli, two recent developments suggest it will be more difficult than first thought. ...
California

California’s Water Future: Sacramento Policy Conference

Steven Greenhut, author of the recent PRI book Winning the Water Wars, moderates a panel of water experts and policymakers who preview the course the Biden Administration will likely chart on California water policy.  They also highlight potential landmines in the water debate in the months ahead and discuss how free-market ...
Agriculture

Winners and Losers – March 26

Tim Anaya – Senior Director of Communications and PRI’s Sacramento Office Winners:  Californians Who Are 16+ – The wait is finally over. Californians who are 50 years of age or older will be eligible to receive the Covid-19 vaccine starting on April 1, and Californians who are 16 years of ...
Blog

CAPITAL IDEAS: California’s Past, Even if Not Perfect, Set Up Its Prosperous Future

DOWNLOAD PDF Even before it was a state, California was the New World’s new world. Everything that the Western Hemisphere promised was condensed and amplified in what became the 31st state. Not only was it arguably the greatest land of opportunity in human history, but rather than having exhausted itself ...
Blog

California Poised for Massive State Budget Spending Increases

Viewers of President Biden’s speech to Congress last week may have been struck by size of the trillions in new federal spending the President outlined in his speech.  In advance of the President’s speech, Democrats in the California Legislature had a message for Washington – hold my beer! Assembly and ...
California

Good Morning Arizona Interviews Steven Greenhut on “Mega-Drought” in the West

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) – Are we running out of water? It’s a scary thought but a possible reality for states like Arizona that are facing droughts. Some scientists warn the Grand Canyon State and the rest of the West may be headed for the worst megadrought in history. According to the ...
Agriculture

KMVT Idaho Interviews Steven Greenhut on the West’s “Mega-Drought”

Much of the western United States is running out of water with much of Southern Idaho in the abnormally dry or moderate drought categories. Nearly 80% of the American West is in a drought and now is the time to think about the future of Idaho water. With much of ...
Agriculture

Facing Down Fear of a Mega-Drought

Four years ago, then-Gov. Jerry Brown announced the end of California’s historically severe drought by lifting various emergency restrictions. “This drought emergency is over, but the next drought could be around the corner,” the governor intoned. “Conservation must remain a way of life.” Brown was right about the next drought now ...
Blog

Winners and Losers – April 16

Tim Anaya – Senior Director of Communications and PRI’s Sacramento Office Winner:  John Boehner, the Author – Former House Speaker John Boehner has apparently released quite the entertaining new memoir of his time as Speaker, with the publication of On The House.  While I would love someday to have a ...
Blog

Corrupting Infrastructure in Order to Expand the Federal Government’s Size and Scope

Allusions to George Orwell’s 1984 are often overdone, but the applicability is simply too great to ignore. After all, how else do you refer to a proposed $2.7 trillion infrastructure package that spends only 16-cents on the dollar for infrastructure? Having reviewed the President’s proposed package based on the White ...
Blog

Maybe It Won’t Be So Easy to Pass These Tax Hikes

Much of the political energy in Sacramento and Washington lately has focused on taxes.  Speculation has focused on which taxes liberal politicians will raise, and by how much.  While pundits are all but declaring it a fait accompli, two recent developments suggest it will be more difficult than first thought. ...
California

California’s Water Future: Sacramento Policy Conference

Steven Greenhut, author of the recent PRI book Winning the Water Wars, moderates a panel of water experts and policymakers who preview the course the Biden Administration will likely chart on California water policy.  They also highlight potential landmines in the water debate in the months ahead and discuss how free-market ...
Agriculture

Winners and Losers – March 26

Tim Anaya – Senior Director of Communications and PRI’s Sacramento Office Winners:  Californians Who Are 16+ – The wait is finally over. Californians who are 50 years of age or older will be eligible to receive the Covid-19 vaccine starting on April 1, and Californians who are 16 years of ...
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