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Beef still superior to ‘Meatless Mondays,’ according to data
Research suggests Americans are paying closer attention to what they eat resulting in a slightly healthier population but climate change has not slowed in the last two decades. What has improved since the inception of Meatless Mondays is efficiency in cattle nutrition, water use, land management, and overall footprint in ...
Agriculture
Cattle can be a first line of fire defense
Research tells us cattle removed an estimated 11.6 billion pounds of fine fuels from California rangelands in 2017. Removal of fine fuels – grasses, shrubs, weeds – changes wildfire behaviors by keeping fires smaller and reducing flame length. As fire seasons continue to be a challenge for the state and ...
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Radar love: Do automated speed cameras make cities safer?
Radar love: Do automated speed cameras make cities safer? By D. Dowd Muska | May 23, 2025 Earlier this year, San Francisco garnered national headlines when it activated California’s first “speed safety cameras.” The city-county’s ticketing tech, however, wasn’t the focus of the spotlight. Under the state law authorizing the new system, “drivers with low ...
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Read the latest on the push for drug price controls
To Improve Drug Affordability Congress Should Fix the Payment System
Demanding that drug prices in the U.S. equal overseas prices is akin to demanding that the price of all expensive handbags should equal the prices for the knockoffs that people purchase from street vendors. Of course knockoff bags are cheaper. They violate the intellectual property rights of the bag’s maker, ...
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Read the latest from PRI's Free Cities Center
Immigration crackdowns may sabotage L.A.’s rebuilding efforts
Despite some efforts by the state government to cut red tape and accelerate the rebuilding, Angelenos are facing another obstacle: the federal government’s “mass deportations” agenda which will negatively impact the already dire shortage of construction workers. Immigrants make up 41% of the construction workforce in California, according to the ...
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Read the latest on the Southern California wildfire recovery
How’s That Post-Fire Rebuild Going?
Shortly after she returned to Los Angeles after her Ghana junket, Bass assured her constituents she would clear “away red tape and bureaucracy to organize around urgency, common sense and compassion.” “We will do everything we can to get” fire victims “back home,” she said. A month later, she swore it ...
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Read about the push for drug price controls
Trump and Biden Agree on Drug Pricing
Patients will pay dearly, as Michael Baker and Douglas Holtz-Eakin explain in two recent pieces for the American Action Forum’s “Reality Check-Up: The Truth About Single-Payer Systems. Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law in 2022. It directs the feds to “negotiate” prices for a steadily increasing number of ...
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Read the latest on Gov. Newsom's state budget plan
Governor Newsom’s Budget Message to Crime Victims – Like it or lump it.
For those who may have forgotten, Prop 36’s passage in November 2024 was historic. Despite opposition from Gov. Newsom, the majority of the state legislature, and a host of criminal rights groups, it passed in every county and won passage with over 68 percent of the vote statewide. One would ...
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What will California cities do if the bullet train is derailed?
What will California cities do if the bullet train is derailed? By John Seiler | May 16, 2025 California cities face numerous needs for mass transit at the local level. But lurking over any plans is the California High-Speed Rail project, which has soaked up funds since voters approved it ...
Agriculture
Gray wolf study arms ranchers with research in coming gray wolf battle
There’s an adage about bears in the woods. It’s a tongue-in-cheek commentary about what’s obvious in life. Ranchers have known for years that the presence of wolves near livestock has a negative effect on everything from weight gain and maintenance to overall animal stress. A recent study released by researchers ...
Beef still superior to ‘Meatless Mondays,’ according to data
Research suggests Americans are paying closer attention to what they eat resulting in a slightly healthier population but climate change has not slowed in the last two decades. What has improved since the inception of Meatless Mondays is efficiency in cattle nutrition, water use, land management, and overall footprint in ...
Cattle can be a first line of fire defense
Research tells us cattle removed an estimated 11.6 billion pounds of fine fuels from California rangelands in 2017. Removal of fine fuels – grasses, shrubs, weeds – changes wildfire behaviors by keeping fires smaller and reducing flame length. As fire seasons continue to be a challenge for the state and ...
Radar love: Do automated speed cameras make cities safer?
Radar love: Do automated speed cameras make cities safer? By D. Dowd Muska | May 23, 2025 Earlier this year, San Francisco garnered national headlines when it activated California’s first “speed safety cameras.” The city-county’s ticketing tech, however, wasn’t the focus of the spotlight. Under the state law authorizing the new system, “drivers with low ...
Read the latest on the push for drug price controls
To Improve Drug Affordability Congress Should Fix the Payment System
Demanding that drug prices in the U.S. equal overseas prices is akin to demanding that the price of all expensive handbags should equal the prices for the knockoffs that people purchase from street vendors. Of course knockoff bags are cheaper. They violate the intellectual property rights of the bag’s maker, ...
Read the latest from PRI's Free Cities Center
Immigration crackdowns may sabotage L.A.’s rebuilding efforts
Despite some efforts by the state government to cut red tape and accelerate the rebuilding, Angelenos are facing another obstacle: the federal government’s “mass deportations” agenda which will negatively impact the already dire shortage of construction workers. Immigrants make up 41% of the construction workforce in California, according to the ...
Read the latest on the Southern California wildfire recovery
How’s That Post-Fire Rebuild Going?
Shortly after she returned to Los Angeles after her Ghana junket, Bass assured her constituents she would clear “away red tape and bureaucracy to organize around urgency, common sense and compassion.” “We will do everything we can to get” fire victims “back home,” she said. A month later, she swore it ...
Read about the push for drug price controls
Trump and Biden Agree on Drug Pricing
Patients will pay dearly, as Michael Baker and Douglas Holtz-Eakin explain in two recent pieces for the American Action Forum’s “Reality Check-Up: The Truth About Single-Payer Systems. Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law in 2022. It directs the feds to “negotiate” prices for a steadily increasing number of ...
Read the latest on Gov. Newsom's state budget plan
Governor Newsom’s Budget Message to Crime Victims – Like it or lump it.
For those who may have forgotten, Prop 36’s passage in November 2024 was historic. Despite opposition from Gov. Newsom, the majority of the state legislature, and a host of criminal rights groups, it passed in every county and won passage with over 68 percent of the vote statewide. One would ...
What will California cities do if the bullet train is derailed?
What will California cities do if the bullet train is derailed? By John Seiler | May 16, 2025 California cities face numerous needs for mass transit at the local level. But lurking over any plans is the California High-Speed Rail project, which has soaked up funds since voters approved it ...
Gray wolf study arms ranchers with research in coming gray wolf battle
There’s an adage about bears in the woods. It’s a tongue-in-cheek commentary about what’s obvious in life. Ranchers have known for years that the presence of wolves near livestock has a negative effect on everything from weight gain and maintenance to overall animal stress. A recent study released by researchers ...
