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The solution to traffic congestion isn’t up, up and away
The solution to traffic congestion isn’t up, up and away By D. Dowd Muska | April 17, 2025 Urbanists often have their heads in the clouds. But this is ridiculous. Today’s trendiest transportation topic in the world of “smart growth”? What the YouTube channel Climate and Transit calls “aerial lifts that ...
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California’s Criminal Justice Reforms – A License to Kill
In 2015 California passed AB 953, The Racial and Identity Profiling Act (RIPA) in order to “improve diversity and racial identity sensitivity” in law enforcement. It’s target – police racial profiling. The 2025 RIPA report chronicles highly granular statistics from over 4.7 million police encounters that occurred in 2023. Of ...
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Spending Watch
The May Revision Should Assume A Weaker Fiscal Position for FY2025-26
The May Revision Should Assume A Weaker Fiscal Position for FY2025-26 Wayne Winegarden April 2025 The recently enacted tariffs are significant tax increases on consumption and production, as I discussed in a February 2025 PRI Issue Brief. These tariffs will increase costs for consumers and reduce profits for businesses both ...
Agriculture
Wolf management needs a regional strategy
With a daily hunting range of 30 miles or more, it is only a matter of time before wolves become a topic of conversation outside of livestock and conservation circles. Congress and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have several blueprints for the kind of predator management plan that makes ...
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Your Mileage May Vary on New Tax Proposal
Your Mileage May Vary on New Tax Proposal Can our Legislature be trusted to replace gas taxes with mileage fees? By Steven Greenhut | April 9, 2025 In a normal state run by politicians who weren’t constantly trying to hose taxpayers to fund an ever-expanding list of dubious programs, it ...
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California’s Broken Juvenile Justice System
On March 17, Cristo Rey De La Salle High School student Derbing Gonzalez was walking to soccer practice with four of his teammates on 100th Ave in Oakland when they were set upon by an armed suspect who demanded Gonzalez’s Sprayground backpack. Gonzalez refused and, after a brief struggle, four ...
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Sanctuary State for The Homeless
Not all of California’s homelessness problems can be blamed on poor public policy. But much of it is due to statutes and ordinances that have incentivized vagrancy. This should not be in dispute and should inform policymaking today and in the future. But apparently some don’t see it that way. ...
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Africa, Unchained From China
READ THE PDF Africa, Unchained From China Elon Musk on March 22 accused the Economic Freedom Fighters of inciting racial hatred. “Very few people know that there is a major political party in South Africa that is actively promoting white genocide,” he posted on his X platform.[1] The leader of ...
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Another attempt to hike taxes to prop up failing transit
Another attempt to hike taxes to prop up failing transit By Steven Greenhut | April 4, 2025 When it comes to the Bay Area’s multiple transit systems, the numbers tell the story. As the San Francisco Chroniclereported last week, ridership at one suburban BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) stop (North ...
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Even liberal cities are taking steps to boost housing construction
The very liberal city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, just accepted the reality that excessive government regulations prevent adequate housing production. The city imposed what is being hailed as “one of the most ambitious changes to any city’s zoning in decades” by eliminating exclusionary zoning (permitting only single family homes) and allowing residential buildings ...
The solution to traffic congestion isn’t up, up and away
The solution to traffic congestion isn’t up, up and away By D. Dowd Muska | April 17, 2025 Urbanists often have their heads in the clouds. But this is ridiculous. Today’s trendiest transportation topic in the world of “smart growth”? What the YouTube channel Climate and Transit calls “aerial lifts that ...
California’s Criminal Justice Reforms – A License to Kill
In 2015 California passed AB 953, The Racial and Identity Profiling Act (RIPA) in order to “improve diversity and racial identity sensitivity” in law enforcement. It’s target – police racial profiling. The 2025 RIPA report chronicles highly granular statistics from over 4.7 million police encounters that occurred in 2023. Of ...
Spending Watch
The May Revision Should Assume A Weaker Fiscal Position for FY2025-26
The May Revision Should Assume A Weaker Fiscal Position for FY2025-26 Wayne Winegarden April 2025 The recently enacted tariffs are significant tax increases on consumption and production, as I discussed in a February 2025 PRI Issue Brief. These tariffs will increase costs for consumers and reduce profits for businesses both ...
Wolf management needs a regional strategy
With a daily hunting range of 30 miles or more, it is only a matter of time before wolves become a topic of conversation outside of livestock and conservation circles. Congress and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have several blueprints for the kind of predator management plan that makes ...
Your Mileage May Vary on New Tax Proposal
Your Mileage May Vary on New Tax Proposal Can our Legislature be trusted to replace gas taxes with mileage fees? By Steven Greenhut | April 9, 2025 In a normal state run by politicians who weren’t constantly trying to hose taxpayers to fund an ever-expanding list of dubious programs, it ...
California’s Broken Juvenile Justice System
On March 17, Cristo Rey De La Salle High School student Derbing Gonzalez was walking to soccer practice with four of his teammates on 100th Ave in Oakland when they were set upon by an armed suspect who demanded Gonzalez’s Sprayground backpack. Gonzalez refused and, after a brief struggle, four ...
Sanctuary State for The Homeless
Not all of California’s homelessness problems can be blamed on poor public policy. But much of it is due to statutes and ordinances that have incentivized vagrancy. This should not be in dispute and should inform policymaking today and in the future. But apparently some don’t see it that way. ...
Africa, Unchained From China
READ THE PDF Africa, Unchained From China Elon Musk on March 22 accused the Economic Freedom Fighters of inciting racial hatred. “Very few people know that there is a major political party in South Africa that is actively promoting white genocide,” he posted on his X platform.[1] The leader of ...
Another attempt to hike taxes to prop up failing transit
Another attempt to hike taxes to prop up failing transit By Steven Greenhut | April 4, 2025 When it comes to the Bay Area’s multiple transit systems, the numbers tell the story. As the San Francisco Chroniclereported last week, ridership at one suburban BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) stop (North ...
Even liberal cities are taking steps to boost housing construction
The very liberal city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, just accepted the reality that excessive government regulations prevent adequate housing production. The city imposed what is being hailed as “one of the most ambitious changes to any city’s zoning in decades” by eliminating exclusionary zoning (permitting only single family homes) and allowing residential buildings ...
