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Agriculture
Eric Edwards and Sara Sutherland – How Federal Bureaucracy Hinder Projects to Reduce Wildfire Risk
With California’s fire season in full swing, Eric Edwards and Sara Sutherland, senior research fellows with the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) in Montana, join us to discuss their new paper detailing how bureaucratic federal environmental reviews – much like the California Environmental Quality Act – add delay and ...
Pacific Research Institute
July 11, 2022
California
Steven Greenhut – PRI Free Cities Project
In this podcast, our guest is Steve Greenhut, director of PRI’s new Free Cities Project. The Free Cities Project will regularly release incisive research and analysis on crime, housing, education, homelessness, social mobility and other urban issues through commentaries, briefs, videos, and webinars. Through the project, PRI aims to foster ...
Pacific Research Institute
May 10, 2022
California
Steve Smith – Rising Crime and the Sacramento Shootings
Our guest this week is PRI Senior Fellow Steve Smith. An expert in public safety policy, he was a former police officer and a former professor of criminal justice. Steve gives his thoughts on the Sacramento shooting as well rising crime in the state, the role of progressive prosecutors, and ...
Pacific Research Institute
April 19, 2022
California
California Burning – Panel Discussion
California once again experienced one of the largest wildfires in state history in 2021, in the shadow of a severe drought that is increasing fire danger. In this panel discussion from PRI’s annual Ideas in Action Conference in Sacramento, policy experts discuss what can be done to reduce wildfires and ...
Pacific Research Institute
March 28, 2022
Homelessness
The Talk of Connecticut Interviews Wayne Winegarden on Homelessness
Wayne Winegarden joins Gary Byron on the Talk of Connecticut WDRC to talk about PRI’s new book, No Way Home, about California’s homeless epidemic. Winegarden and Byron talk about housing affordability and unaffordability on the east and west coast, increases and decreases in homelessness in major cities, and how to ...
Pacific Research Institute
April 7, 2021
California
KSCO Interviews Wayne Winegarden on New Homeless Book “No Way Home”
PRI’s Wayne Winegarden and recent co-author of the new book about homelessness, No Way Home, joins KSCO in Santa Cruz, California, to talk about the focus of the book, challenges, and potential solutions of cities and policymakers. Click here to listen. Wayne’s segment begins at the 31:40 minute mark.
Pacific Research Institute
March 24, 2021
California
Wayne Winegarden Talks CA Homelessness, No Way Home Book on Hidden Truth Show
Watch PRI’s Wayne Winegarden, co-author of the new PRI book No Way Home (Encounter Books) discuss California’s homeless crisis with host Jim Breslo on the “Hidden Truth Show”
Pacific Research Institute
March 19, 2021
California
PRI 2nd Annual Policy Conference: The Homeless Crisis
California’s growing homeless crisis is impacting nearly everyone, especially those living in big cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento. In Governor Newsom’s recent State of the State address, he reportedly spent 35 of his 42 minute speech on the homeless crisis. On the same day, PRI held an ...
Pacific Research Institute
February 24, 2020
California
Listen to Hon. Dan Kolkey discuss Cal Fire case on Daily Journal “Appellate Report” Podcast
Listen to the Hon. Dan Kolkey, PRI board member and attorney with Gibson Dunn, discuss the closely watched case Cal Fire v. CalPERS and the State of California. The case challenges the ability of state and local governments to adjust future pension benefits for current workers. PRI has submitted an amicus brief in the case because ...
Pacific Research Institute
December 10, 2018
Eric Edwards and Sara Sutherland – How Federal Bureaucracy Hinder Projects to Reduce Wildfire Risk
With California’s fire season in full swing, Eric Edwards and Sara Sutherland, senior research fellows with the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) in Montana, join us to discuss their new paper detailing how bureaucratic federal environmental reviews – much like the California Environmental Quality Act – add delay and ...
Steven Greenhut – PRI Free Cities Project
In this podcast, our guest is Steve Greenhut, director of PRI’s new Free Cities Project. The Free Cities Project will regularly release incisive research and analysis on crime, housing, education, homelessness, social mobility and other urban issues through commentaries, briefs, videos, and webinars. Through the project, PRI aims to foster ...
Steve Smith – Rising Crime and the Sacramento Shootings
Our guest this week is PRI Senior Fellow Steve Smith. An expert in public safety policy, he was a former police officer and a former professor of criminal justice. Steve gives his thoughts on the Sacramento shooting as well rising crime in the state, the role of progressive prosecutors, and ...
California Burning – Panel Discussion
California once again experienced one of the largest wildfires in state history in 2021, in the shadow of a severe drought that is increasing fire danger. In this panel discussion from PRI’s annual Ideas in Action Conference in Sacramento, policy experts discuss what can be done to reduce wildfires and ...
The Talk of Connecticut Interviews Wayne Winegarden on Homelessness
Wayne Winegarden joins Gary Byron on the Talk of Connecticut WDRC to talk about PRI’s new book, No Way Home, about California’s homeless epidemic. Winegarden and Byron talk about housing affordability and unaffordability on the east and west coast, increases and decreases in homelessness in major cities, and how to ...
KSCO Interviews Wayne Winegarden on New Homeless Book “No Way Home”
PRI’s Wayne Winegarden and recent co-author of the new book about homelessness, No Way Home, joins KSCO in Santa Cruz, California, to talk about the focus of the book, challenges, and potential solutions of cities and policymakers. Click here to listen. Wayne’s segment begins at the 31:40 minute mark.
Wayne Winegarden Talks CA Homelessness, No Way Home Book on Hidden Truth Show
Watch PRI’s Wayne Winegarden, co-author of the new PRI book No Way Home (Encounter Books) discuss California’s homeless crisis with host Jim Breslo on the “Hidden Truth Show”
PRI 2nd Annual Policy Conference: The Homeless Crisis
California’s growing homeless crisis is impacting nearly everyone, especially those living in big cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento. In Governor Newsom’s recent State of the State address, he reportedly spent 35 of his 42 minute speech on the homeless crisis. On the same day, PRI held an ...
Listen to Hon. Dan Kolkey discuss Cal Fire case on Daily Journal “Appellate Report” Podcast
Listen to the Hon. Dan Kolkey, PRI board member and attorney with Gibson Dunn, discuss the closely watched case Cal Fire v. CalPERS and the State of California. The case challenges the ability of state and local governments to adjust future pension benefits for current workers. PRI has submitted an amicus brief in the case because ...