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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.

Pensions are main reason for slowing police response times

Pensions are main reason for slowing police response times by John Seiler | August 28, 2026 One of the reasons to be vigilant about excessive police compensation is because it ironically can crowd out funds for adequate numbers of officers. ...

Obamacare counts insurance cards, not access to care

The latest federal report on Obamacare’s insurance exchanges has prompted an outcry from Democrats and Republicans alike. Released this summer by the Department of Health and Human Services, the study found that marketplace enrollment fell by roughly 3 million this ...

Bay Area transit tax would lock in flawed spending system for decades

It’s a tax that would run for 14 years and raise an average of $1.2 billion a year. The four northern counties of Marin, Napa, Solano and Sonoma looked at the deal and opted out. To work around the need for a ...

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Watch PRI’s Steve Smith on ABC 7 discussing falling Bay Area crime rates

Watch as PRI’s Steve Smith talks with ABC 7 News’ Cameron Bopp about the latest data showing violent crime rates are falling in the Bay ...
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Watch Sally Pipes on Newsmax on Socialists Pushing Medicare for All

Watch as PRI President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally Pipes discusses the renewed push for Medicare for All by ...
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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 ...

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