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Banning Plastics in California — The Fun Never Ends
The newspaper comic strip They’ll Do It Every Time that was published for nearly 80 years through 2008 “illustrated minor absurdities, frustrations, hypocrisies, ironies and misfortunes of everyday life,” says Wikipedia, typically showing “deceptive, pretentious, unwitting or scheming human behavior.” It’s appropriate that it was started in San Francisco at ...
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Local Officials Could Learn Something from LA Student Savings Account Push
With great fanfare, the Los Angeles City Council – in partnership with the LA Unified School District – last week enacted new pilot program called “Opportunity LA” to establish “children’s savings accounts” for every first grader in the city. The accounts would be seeded with $50 for every student. According ...
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NCAA coaching salaries and media deals show there’s no such thing as the “collegiate model”
The NCAA recently caved to California and the federal government by unanimously supporting compensation for student athletes. The NCAA board of governors approved a two-year process to determine a framework to compensate student athletes for their name, image, and likeliness. The move by the NCAA is a vocal step in ...
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Veterans Day and What It Means
As we celebrate Veterans Day and honor the men and women who have selflessly served our nation, it is important to understand that this special day is about both people and about ideas. At his final speech to the Corps of Cadets at West Point in 1962, General Douglas MacArthur, ...
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What We’re Watching – November 8
Tim Anaya – Peter Thiel on Conservative Bias in Silicon Valley As a preview of coming attractions for this weekend’s PRI Baroness Thatcher Gala in Newport Beach featuring Peter Thiel, here’s video of a recent interview on Fox Business where he shares his thoughts on conservative bias in Silicon Valley ...
Blackouts
CAPITAL IDEAS – California’s Blackouts: How Did We Get Here and What Can We Do to Keep the Lights On?
Download the Brief Introduction Pacific Gas and Electric of San Francisco began in October 2019 a series of electricity blackouts called “public safety power shutoffs.” The objective was to prevent its equipment from starting wildfires during hot, dry, and windy periods. The Great Blackouts of 2019 plunged nearly 3 million ...
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Free Markets: Power to The People
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced last week that he was going to name an energy czar “in the wake of Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s prolonged power outages,” says the Sacramento Bee, because. According to the governor, “the entire system needs to be reimagined.” “We cannot afford the kind of public ...
Blackouts
On Blackouts, Gavin Newsom Should Beware the Legacy of Gray Davis
Californians are rightfully outraged over what my colleague Kerry Jackson has termed, “The Great Blackouts of 2019.” Naturally, whenever there is a crisis or a scandal in state government like the blackouts and the PG&E bailout and bankruptcy, voters look to blame someone for the problem, typically the Governor. Indeed, ...
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California Student Test-Score Plunge: Common Core a Likely Culprit
The results of the 2019 National Assessment for Educational Progress, often called the “Nation’s Report Card,” came out recently and California’s scores once again tanked, with one of the likely causes being the national Common Core standards and aligned curricula. The NAEP exam, which is given every two years, tests ...
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What We’re Watching – Entrepreneurship is Key to Lifting People Out of Poverty
This week, PRI released a new study by Senior Fellow in Business and Economics, Dr. Wayne Winegarden about how government-created barriers to opportunity were standing in the way of low-income and immigrant entrepreneurs starting a business and working their way into the middle class. Along with the video, we released ...
Banning Plastics in California — The Fun Never Ends
The newspaper comic strip They’ll Do It Every Time that was published for nearly 80 years through 2008 “illustrated minor absurdities, frustrations, hypocrisies, ironies and misfortunes of everyday life,” says Wikipedia, typically showing “deceptive, pretentious, unwitting or scheming human behavior.” It’s appropriate that it was started in San Francisco at ...
Local Officials Could Learn Something from LA Student Savings Account Push
With great fanfare, the Los Angeles City Council – in partnership with the LA Unified School District – last week enacted new pilot program called “Opportunity LA” to establish “children’s savings accounts” for every first grader in the city. The accounts would be seeded with $50 for every student. According ...
NCAA coaching salaries and media deals show there’s no such thing as the “collegiate model”
The NCAA recently caved to California and the federal government by unanimously supporting compensation for student athletes. The NCAA board of governors approved a two-year process to determine a framework to compensate student athletes for their name, image, and likeliness. The move by the NCAA is a vocal step in ...
Veterans Day and What It Means
As we celebrate Veterans Day and honor the men and women who have selflessly served our nation, it is important to understand that this special day is about both people and about ideas. At his final speech to the Corps of Cadets at West Point in 1962, General Douglas MacArthur, ...
What We’re Watching – November 8
Tim Anaya – Peter Thiel on Conservative Bias in Silicon Valley As a preview of coming attractions for this weekend’s PRI Baroness Thatcher Gala in Newport Beach featuring Peter Thiel, here’s video of a recent interview on Fox Business where he shares his thoughts on conservative bias in Silicon Valley ...
CAPITAL IDEAS – California’s Blackouts: How Did We Get Here and What Can We Do to Keep the Lights On?
Download the Brief Introduction Pacific Gas and Electric of San Francisco began in October 2019 a series of electricity blackouts called “public safety power shutoffs.” The objective was to prevent its equipment from starting wildfires during hot, dry, and windy periods. The Great Blackouts of 2019 plunged nearly 3 million ...
Free Markets: Power to The People
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced last week that he was going to name an energy czar “in the wake of Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s prolonged power outages,” says the Sacramento Bee, because. According to the governor, “the entire system needs to be reimagined.” “We cannot afford the kind of public ...
On Blackouts, Gavin Newsom Should Beware the Legacy of Gray Davis
Californians are rightfully outraged over what my colleague Kerry Jackson has termed, “The Great Blackouts of 2019.” Naturally, whenever there is a crisis or a scandal in state government like the blackouts and the PG&E bailout and bankruptcy, voters look to blame someone for the problem, typically the Governor. Indeed, ...
California Student Test-Score Plunge: Common Core a Likely Culprit
The results of the 2019 National Assessment for Educational Progress, often called the “Nation’s Report Card,” came out recently and California’s scores once again tanked, with one of the likely causes being the national Common Core standards and aligned curricula. The NAEP exam, which is given every two years, tests ...
What We’re Watching – Entrepreneurship is Key to Lifting People Out of Poverty
This week, PRI released a new study by Senior Fellow in Business and Economics, Dr. Wayne Winegarden about how government-created barriers to opportunity were standing in the way of low-income and immigrant entrepreneurs starting a business and working their way into the middle class. Along with the video, we released ...
