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Will LA Teachers Strike Settlement Lead to $11 Billion Tax Hike?
The settlement of the Los Angeles’ teachers strike last week made major news across the state. As PRI’s Lance Izumi wrote recently in the Daily Caller, “the Los Angeles teachers strike is a perfect storm of bad policies, bad management, bad demands, and, too often, bad actors.” One of the ...
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Will Lawmakers Ever Be Held to Account For Their Legislative Malpractice?
California continues to rank last, or so near the bottom that it makes no difference, in quality-of-life lists, and it’s not quite clear if the news has made it to Sacramento yet. Because there are no efforts being made to turn things around. Instead, it seems the majority of lawmakers ...
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Oregon’s Scheme to Save Union Slush Funds
It’s not often that another state can top California when it comes to protecting public employee unions. But Oregon’s House Bill 2643 takes the prize so far for the most audacious attempt to thwart the U.S. Supreme Court’s Janus decision. Janus v. AFCFME allowed government workers to opt-out of paying ...
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Medical Economic Studies Should Come with a Warning Label
The old joke about the drunk and the policeman is apropos for far too many pharmaceutical studies. Typically, the joke goes something like the following: A policeman sees a drunk man searching for something under a streetlight and asks what the drunk has lost. He says he lost his keys ...
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What We’re Watching – Welcome to Change
This week, PRI is celebrating National School Choice Week with the release of our new mini-documentary, “Welcome to Change”. The film profiles Life Learning Academy on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, which serves students battling significant adversity – violence, poverty, broken homes, even homelessness. Watch the movie and you’ll ...
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Yet Again, Government Intrudes On Private Matters, Puts A Boot On Charitable Activity
There is a long tradition of food sharing in California. It’s been called by its practitioners an “unregulated gift of compassion” for the hungry. For decades, however, this peaceful, voluntary act was illegal across the state unless participating groups registered for and received food-service permits, which, the East Bay Express ...
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The Shape of Water Tax
California’s rural residents and coastal elites have at least one thing in common: they’re both drinking bottled water. A McClatchy analysis of data compiled from the State Water Resource Control Board estimates that 360,000 Californians – mostly in inland areas — are served water from unsafe water systems. These include ...
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Newsom’s Budget Plan Shows You Can Have Your Cake and Eat It Too
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s first budget plan proves the old English proverb is wrong. Turns out you can have your cake and eat it too, especially when the state has a $21.4 billion budget surplus. Continuing with the clichés – state budgets are usually feast or famine. Over the years, governors ...
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What We’re Watching – Remembering Dr. King
Today, we join all Americans in pausing to remember the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Instead of our normal posts here on Right by the Bay today, we present a special “What We’re Watching” featuring Dr. King’s most inspiring words in his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
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What We’re Watching – January 18
Tim Anaya – Choosing Diversity Preview Next week is National School Choice Week. As part of the celebration, we’ll be releasing Choosing Diversity, the latest book from our Lance Izumi on the importance of charter schools. Here’s a preview of Lance speaking about his new book! Rowena Itchon – What ...
Will LA Teachers Strike Settlement Lead to $11 Billion Tax Hike?
The settlement of the Los Angeles’ teachers strike last week made major news across the state. As PRI’s Lance Izumi wrote recently in the Daily Caller, “the Los Angeles teachers strike is a perfect storm of bad policies, bad management, bad demands, and, too often, bad actors.” One of the ...
Will Lawmakers Ever Be Held to Account For Their Legislative Malpractice?
California continues to rank last, or so near the bottom that it makes no difference, in quality-of-life lists, and it’s not quite clear if the news has made it to Sacramento yet. Because there are no efforts being made to turn things around. Instead, it seems the majority of lawmakers ...
Oregon’s Scheme to Save Union Slush Funds
It’s not often that another state can top California when it comes to protecting public employee unions. But Oregon’s House Bill 2643 takes the prize so far for the most audacious attempt to thwart the U.S. Supreme Court’s Janus decision. Janus v. AFCFME allowed government workers to opt-out of paying ...
Medical Economic Studies Should Come with a Warning Label
The old joke about the drunk and the policeman is apropos for far too many pharmaceutical studies. Typically, the joke goes something like the following: A policeman sees a drunk man searching for something under a streetlight and asks what the drunk has lost. He says he lost his keys ...
What We’re Watching – Welcome to Change
This week, PRI is celebrating National School Choice Week with the release of our new mini-documentary, “Welcome to Change”. The film profiles Life Learning Academy on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, which serves students battling significant adversity – violence, poverty, broken homes, even homelessness. Watch the movie and you’ll ...
Yet Again, Government Intrudes On Private Matters, Puts A Boot On Charitable Activity
There is a long tradition of food sharing in California. It’s been called by its practitioners an “unregulated gift of compassion” for the hungry. For decades, however, this peaceful, voluntary act was illegal across the state unless participating groups registered for and received food-service permits, which, the East Bay Express ...
The Shape of Water Tax
California’s rural residents and coastal elites have at least one thing in common: they’re both drinking bottled water. A McClatchy analysis of data compiled from the State Water Resource Control Board estimates that 360,000 Californians – mostly in inland areas — are served water from unsafe water systems. These include ...
Newsom’s Budget Plan Shows You Can Have Your Cake and Eat It Too
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s first budget plan proves the old English proverb is wrong. Turns out you can have your cake and eat it too, especially when the state has a $21.4 billion budget surplus. Continuing with the clichés – state budgets are usually feast or famine. Over the years, governors ...
What We’re Watching – Remembering Dr. King
Today, we join all Americans in pausing to remember the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Instead of our normal posts here on Right by the Bay today, we present a special “What We’re Watching” featuring Dr. King’s most inspiring words in his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
What We’re Watching – January 18
Tim Anaya – Choosing Diversity Preview Next week is National School Choice Week. As part of the celebration, we’ll be releasing Choosing Diversity, the latest book from our Lance Izumi on the importance of charter schools. Here’s a preview of Lance speaking about his new book! Rowena Itchon – What ...
