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Building Cities From Scratch

SACRAMENTO – The plan by a group of San Francisco Bay Area venture capitalists to build an entirely new city on ranch land in Solano County between the Bay Area and Sacramento has become one of the most controversial housing ...

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U.S. cities can learn from Stockholm’s citizen democracy

American cities are obviously a mess. They are plagued by crime, corruption, homelessness, drug addiction, failing schools and vast inequalities of wealth. The underlying problem isn’t rocket science. It’s partly due to our professional politicians, whose motivational interests often do ...

Obamacare is just overly expensive catastrophic health insurance

Democrats are warning of a surge in the number of uninsured if costly enhanced subsidies for exchange coverage expire as planned at the end of next year. But exchange coverage is borderline useless to many enrollees. It requires beneficiaries to ...

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The De-crminialization, De-carceration, and De-legitimization Decade

The passage of Prop 47, Prop 57, the Racial Justice Act, and the progressive agenda of reducing so-called “mass incarceration” has meant that California was no longer prosecuting drug crime and a  host of racial inequity arguments that have redefined ...

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The False Promise of a Government Takeover of our Health Care System

My goal today is to expose the false promise of a fully government-run healthcare system — “Medicare for All,” as some progressives style it. Under ...
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A Year Later, Florida’s Drug Importation Plan Is Misguided As Ever

When president-elect Donald Trump joked about making Canada the 51st state, he had an unlikely supporter: Bernie Sanders. “Does that mean that we can adopt ...
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California’s Next Crime Wave – Fuel Theft

Here are a few examples: On September 27, an Inland Empire resident drove away from her job at an area hospital when her pickup truck ...

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