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Voters slam California with new local taxes and bonds
Voters slam California with new local taxes and bonds By John Seiler | December 6, 2024 California’s Nov. 5 election totals, finalized on Dec. 5 by county registrars, show voters slammed local taxpayers with around $2.3 billion in new direct tax increases. Plus $47.1 billion in new bond debt, which ...
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Read the latest from PRI's Free Cities Center
Can cities keep up as California steps up housing lawsuits?
Housing Element parameters are determined by the state, guiding cities and counties to produce sufficient inventory to accommodate community needs. While Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) numbers get updated every eight years, what is planned for – and what is actually built – have long differed. The state this year ...
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Immigration in California (By the Numbers)
According to Pew Research, immigration ranked second, after the economy, in a top ten list of potential Trump voter concerns going into the 2024 presidential election. For potential Harris voters, immigration ranked last. Upon his Nov 6th election, President-Elect Trump made immediate plans for the “mass deportation” of millions ...
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Support PRI on Giving Tuesday
Support PRI This Giving Tuesday
At the Pacific Research Institute, we are excited to participate in Giving Tuesday not just because of our status as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, but because we know that nonprofits are often at the forefront of innovative solutions to pressing social problems – problems that government bureaucracies are inadequately prepared ...
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Learn how poorly California students scored on the latest national literacy test
Low Adult Literacy Screams for Science-of-Reading Instruction in Schools
The United States ranks 36th in the world at a 79% literacy rate, which is quite terrible considering the US’s status as one of the most developed nations in the world. “Developed nations consistently boast adult literacy rates of 96% or higher, while the least developed countries struggle with an ...
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PRI’s 2024 Holiday Book List
Sally Pipes – Doctor Sally by P.G. Wodehouse While not a policy book, my favorite this year and one that I read recently is Doctor Sally by my favorite author, P.G. Wodehouse. After a long and grueling election campaign, this book is a tonic and breath of fresh air for ...
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Read the latest from PRI's Free Cities Center
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Key to the City” – or the key to more control?
She is a “Mexican-American architect, attorney, professor and policymaker whose interdisciplinary work focuses on how law and policy can foster more equitable, sustainable, well-designed and connected places.” The author grew up in Houston, served for seven years as the head of Hartford, Conn.’s planning and zoning commission (her ex-husband was ...
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Read about the latest victory in the war on cars
A Great Highway . . . But Not for Driving
Prop. K will permanently close a two-mile stretch – more than half its length – of the four-lane highway along Ocean Beach between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard. It will become a public recreation space. The idea goes back to the early days of the COVID-19 panic. “In response to ...
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Despite latest defense, zoning is just government coercion
Despite latest defense, zoning is just government coercion By Kerry Jackson | November 22, 2024 Central planning never goes out of style on the political left. On occasion, though, it gets special attention. That’s the case with a new book written by, according to Governing magazine, “an architect and zoning ...
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Gas Warfare in California
It took only a few hours after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a regulatory bill for Phillips 66 to announce that it is closing its Los Angeles refinery complex. Without actually using the words, the company is saying there’s no reason to stick around and be abused. In a ceremony designed ...
Voters slam California with new local taxes and bonds
Voters slam California with new local taxes and bonds By John Seiler | December 6, 2024 California’s Nov. 5 election totals, finalized on Dec. 5 by county registrars, show voters slammed local taxpayers with around $2.3 billion in new direct tax increases. Plus $47.1 billion in new bond debt, which ...
Read the latest from PRI's Free Cities Center
Can cities keep up as California steps up housing lawsuits?
Housing Element parameters are determined by the state, guiding cities and counties to produce sufficient inventory to accommodate community needs. While Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) numbers get updated every eight years, what is planned for – and what is actually built – have long differed. The state this year ...
Immigration in California (By the Numbers)
According to Pew Research, immigration ranked second, after the economy, in a top ten list of potential Trump voter concerns going into the 2024 presidential election. For potential Harris voters, immigration ranked last. Upon his Nov 6th election, President-Elect Trump made immediate plans for the “mass deportation” of millions ...
Support PRI on Giving Tuesday
Support PRI This Giving Tuesday
At the Pacific Research Institute, we are excited to participate in Giving Tuesday not just because of our status as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, but because we know that nonprofits are often at the forefront of innovative solutions to pressing social problems – problems that government bureaucracies are inadequately prepared ...
Learn how poorly California students scored on the latest national literacy test
Low Adult Literacy Screams for Science-of-Reading Instruction in Schools
The United States ranks 36th in the world at a 79% literacy rate, which is quite terrible considering the US’s status as one of the most developed nations in the world. “Developed nations consistently boast adult literacy rates of 96% or higher, while the least developed countries struggle with an ...
PRI’s 2024 Holiday Book List
Sally Pipes – Doctor Sally by P.G. Wodehouse While not a policy book, my favorite this year and one that I read recently is Doctor Sally by my favorite author, P.G. Wodehouse. After a long and grueling election campaign, this book is a tonic and breath of fresh air for ...
Read the latest from PRI's Free Cities Center
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Key to the City” – or the key to more control?
She is a “Mexican-American architect, attorney, professor and policymaker whose interdisciplinary work focuses on how law and policy can foster more equitable, sustainable, well-designed and connected places.” The author grew up in Houston, served for seven years as the head of Hartford, Conn.’s planning and zoning commission (her ex-husband was ...
Read about the latest victory in the war on cars
A Great Highway . . . But Not for Driving
Prop. K will permanently close a two-mile stretch – more than half its length – of the four-lane highway along Ocean Beach between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard. It will become a public recreation space. The idea goes back to the early days of the COVID-19 panic. “In response to ...
Despite latest defense, zoning is just government coercion
Despite latest defense, zoning is just government coercion By Kerry Jackson | November 22, 2024 Central planning never goes out of style on the political left. On occasion, though, it gets special attention. That’s the case with a new book written by, according to Governing magazine, “an architect and zoning ...
Gas Warfare in California
It took only a few hours after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a regulatory bill for Phillips 66 to announce that it is closing its Los Angeles refinery complex. Without actually using the words, the company is saying there’s no reason to stick around and be abused. In a ceremony designed ...
