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Watch Videos from PRI’s 2024 California Ideas in Action Conference
Watch Videos from PRI’s 2024 California Ideas in Action Conference The theme of the 2024 PRI California Ideas in Action Conference is the “5 Issues for 2024”. Recent surveys show the economy, homelessness and housing, crime, energy regulation, and debt are top issues for voters in advance of the 2024 ...
Blog
Markets and subsidies: Exposing the delusions of urbanists
To understand the “rules” regarding the role of the internal combustion engine powered by fossil fuels, Calvinball comes to mind, created in the comic strip, “Calvin and Hobbes.” Calvinball players make up the rules as they go along, and other players cannot make sense of what is happening. To hear ...
Book
New Free Cities Book
Reforms to Increase Affordability, Homebuilding Would Go Far to Alleviate State’s Housing, Homeless Crises
SACRAMENTO – Rolling back policies that have created unaffordable costs of living and made homebuilding prohibitively expensive can alleviate the state’s housing and homeless problems, finds a new book released today by the Free Cities Center at the nonpartisan, free-market think tank, the Pacific Research Institute. Click here to download ...
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Learn how much you'll be paying for power
Power And Higher Prices To The People
With the arrival of the new year comes higher energy prices for many Californians. Here is how things are looking: One week before Thanksgiving, the California Public Utilities Commission approved a 13% rate hike for Pacific Gas & Electric. It will go into effect on New Year’s Day. But even ...
6th Annual “California Ideas in Action” Sacramento Conference
You are invited to attend PRI’s 6th Annual “California Ideas in Action” Sacramento Conference “The 5 Issues for 2024” Featuring Keynote Speaker STEVE HILTON, Golden Together Founder & CEO and Fox News Contributor Moderated by Sally C. Pipes PRI President, CEO and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy ...
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Read latest from Free Cities Center
With motivation, even California can clean up its cities
Why can’t it be like this all the time? The efforts were criticized because so much of San Francisco has fallen into a state of disrepair, with pervasive homelessness, drug abuse, petty crime and even human feces (so much so that a map was created to document the location of poop) ...
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Freedom – Not Density – Should Drive Land-Use Decisions
Freedom – Not Density – Should Drive Land-Use Decisions By Steven Greenhut | November 10, 2023 SACRAMENTO – California has in recent years embarked on a remarkable legislative journey that has seen some of the state’s most-onerous land-use regulations rolled back. Lawmakers have recognized that government restrictions are the key ...
Business & Economics
Read the latest about green investment mandates
Is CalPERS Still A Responsible Fiduciary?
Addressing global climate change is difficult and costly. Success requires an environment that encourages many ideas and experiments to flourish. Mandates from CalPERS undermines such an environment to the detriment of investors, the economy, and the environment. Read the full article at Forbes.com
California
Read Kerry Jackson's latest at Fox News
California Gov. Newsom travels the globe while these problems plague his state
On Oct. 20, Newsom was in Israel, where he “met with survivors, impacted families and others” of that country’s war with Hamas. Three days later, he was in Hong Kong, then in Beijing the next day, where he was “flexing California’s credentials as a global leader in climate change policy,” ...
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Rowena Itchon and Tim Anaya – California New Laws on the Books
It’s that time of the year when the Governor decides which bills to sign and which to veto. Rowena Itchon, chief operating officer at PRI and Tim Anaya, vice president of marketing and communications have a round-up discussion of the major bills — from health care to climate change to ...
Watch Videos from PRI’s 2024 California Ideas in Action Conference
Watch Videos from PRI’s 2024 California Ideas in Action Conference The theme of the 2024 PRI California Ideas in Action Conference is the “5 Issues for 2024”. Recent surveys show the economy, homelessness and housing, crime, energy regulation, and debt are top issues for voters in advance of the 2024 ...
Markets and subsidies: Exposing the delusions of urbanists
To understand the “rules” regarding the role of the internal combustion engine powered by fossil fuels, Calvinball comes to mind, created in the comic strip, “Calvin and Hobbes.” Calvinball players make up the rules as they go along, and other players cannot make sense of what is happening. To hear ...
New Free Cities Book
Reforms to Increase Affordability, Homebuilding Would Go Far to Alleviate State’s Housing, Homeless Crises
SACRAMENTO – Rolling back policies that have created unaffordable costs of living and made homebuilding prohibitively expensive can alleviate the state’s housing and homeless problems, finds a new book released today by the Free Cities Center at the nonpartisan, free-market think tank, the Pacific Research Institute. Click here to download ...
Learn how much you'll be paying for power
Power And Higher Prices To The People
With the arrival of the new year comes higher energy prices for many Californians. Here is how things are looking: One week before Thanksgiving, the California Public Utilities Commission approved a 13% rate hike for Pacific Gas & Electric. It will go into effect on New Year’s Day. But even ...
6th Annual “California Ideas in Action” Sacramento Conference
You are invited to attend PRI’s 6th Annual “California Ideas in Action” Sacramento Conference “The 5 Issues for 2024” Featuring Keynote Speaker STEVE HILTON, Golden Together Founder & CEO and Fox News Contributor Moderated by Sally C. Pipes PRI President, CEO and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy ...
Read latest from Free Cities Center
With motivation, even California can clean up its cities
Why can’t it be like this all the time? The efforts were criticized because so much of San Francisco has fallen into a state of disrepair, with pervasive homelessness, drug abuse, petty crime and even human feces (so much so that a map was created to document the location of poop) ...
Freedom – Not Density – Should Drive Land-Use Decisions
Freedom – Not Density – Should Drive Land-Use Decisions By Steven Greenhut | November 10, 2023 SACRAMENTO – California has in recent years embarked on a remarkable legislative journey that has seen some of the state’s most-onerous land-use regulations rolled back. Lawmakers have recognized that government restrictions are the key ...
Read the latest about green investment mandates
Is CalPERS Still A Responsible Fiduciary?
Addressing global climate change is difficult and costly. Success requires an environment that encourages many ideas and experiments to flourish. Mandates from CalPERS undermines such an environment to the detriment of investors, the economy, and the environment. Read the full article at Forbes.com
Read Kerry Jackson's latest at Fox News
California Gov. Newsom travels the globe while these problems plague his state
On Oct. 20, Newsom was in Israel, where he “met with survivors, impacted families and others” of that country’s war with Hamas. Three days later, he was in Hong Kong, then in Beijing the next day, where he was “flexing California’s credentials as a global leader in climate change policy,” ...
Rowena Itchon and Tim Anaya – California New Laws on the Books
It’s that time of the year when the Governor decides which bills to sign and which to veto. Rowena Itchon, chief operating officer at PRI and Tim Anaya, vice president of marketing and communications have a round-up discussion of the major bills — from health care to climate change to ...
