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Why Are Grocery Prices Still Rising? New Study Says Washington Is Targeting the Wrong Problem

SACRAMENTO –  With grocery prices continuing to climb and Americans searching for answers, a new study released today by the Pacific Research Institute concludes that Washington is focusing on the wrong solution. While the Federal Trade Commission has launched an ...

Watch: Learn How California’s New Reforms Are Making it Easier to Build ADUs

Watch below as a Sacramento-area homeowner gives us a tour of her family’s newly-build ADU and learn how California’s new reforms are making it much easier to build new ADUs.

Taxpayer Dollars Should Not Fund Political Campaigns

Taxpayer dollars should be used for legitimate public responsibilities, such as maintaining roads, public safety, education, keeping communities clean, and paying down debt. Financing political campaigns should not become another government responsibility. Public campaign-financing programs use taxpayer dollars to help ...

CMS Undermining Next Generation of Medicines

Some of the biggest advances in medicine don’t come from discovering entirely new drugs. They come from making existing ones easier to take, faster to administer, safer, and more effective. A new proposal from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...

Homicides Fall to Record Lows

During the same period, the number of Black Californians killed by homicide fell from 690 to 372—a reduction of 318 victims, or 46 percent. Among Black men, the demographic group at greatest risk of homicide victimization, the number fell from ...

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California’s Missing Report: Why the State Needs an Annual State of the Criminal Justice System Report

Every year, state agencies, universities, advocacy organizations, and think tanks—including the Pacific Research Institute—publish valuable analyses of crime, courts, corrections, sentencing, policing, and public safety. ...
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California Leads the Nation in Attacks on Its Own Communications Networks. Sacramento Should Act Like It.

California likes to lead. On this one, leading is nothing to brag about. New industry data released this summer counted 18,327 nationwide intentional attacks on ...
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From Sarajevo to the World Cup: Why Alliances Still Matter

That transformation also raises an important question as Americans reconsider our nation’s role in the world. In 1984, Sarajevo welcomed the world as host of ...

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