Why Are Grocery Prices Still Rising? New Study Says Washington Is Targeting the Wrong Problem
Wayne H Winegarden
August 3, 2026
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
Pacific Research Institute
July 13, 2026
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.
The High Cost of Doing the Right Thing – What a Trip to the Dump Has in Common with the DMV
Steve Smith
August 26, 2026
Oakland has become one of America’s most visible symbols of illegal dumping. Discarded mattresses line neighborhood streets. Sofas, refrigerators, tires, construction debris and bags of household garbage accumulate beneath freeway overpasses, in vacant lots and along roadsides. The consequences extend ...
California’s New Software Tax Is Another Step Toward More Digital Taxes
Anthony Velasquez
August 25, 2026
Senate Bill 122 is projected to raise roughly $2 billion annual tax increase on the software businesses use to operate, and its costs will spread far beyond company software bills. Since software as a service supports nearly every part of ...
The sneaky, unregulated dangers of copycat GLP-1 drugs
Sally C. Pipes
August 24, 2026
Federal regulators are turning up the heat on sellers of copycat weight-loss drugs. Earlier this summer, the Food and Drug Administration sent warning letters to dozens of companies marketing compounded GLP-1s over misleading advertising. That action is more than welcome. ...
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