New Free Cities Book

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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Left’s Medicaid Fixation Harms Patients

Over a three-month period last year, Medicaid enrollment declined by roughly 2 million, a new study in the journal Health Affairs reveals. The sudden contraction was mostly the result of a wind-down of COVID-19-era policies that prevented states from removing ...

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Changes to California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard Will Cost Families Dearly

The California Air Resources Board should go back to the drawing board rather than expand a policy that would raise gas prices without meaningfully lowering emissions. At issue is an upcoming vote where this group of unelected bureaucrats will update ...

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California needs more than medical schools to solve doctor shortage

California doesn’t have enough doctors. This year, the state met just 54% of its primary care needs. It would take 881 more physicians to eliminate all the state’s designated primary care shortage areas, where more than 5.8 million Californians currently ...

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The End of Violence? Not Quite.

In 2019, the San Francisco Chronicle published an in depth look at juvenile justice in California.  So struck was the paper by the decline in ...
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Learn more about how price fixing stifles innovation

New Schizophrenia Drug Represents Promise Of Pharmaceutical Innovation

Late last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Bristol Myers Squibb’s KarXT, a treatment for schizophrenia. The drug, which will be marketed under the ...
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‘An idea so bad, Seattle hasn’t done it’

“Homelessness isn’t an identity,” said a full-page ad in the Aug. 25 issue of the Spokane’s Spokesman-Review newspaper. “Tell the City Council to VOTE NO ...

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