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Housing

Wayne Winegarden Discusses Inflation and the Housing Market with The Ledger

PRI Business and Economics Fellow, Wayne Winegarden, discusses inflation and its effect on the housing market with The Ledger’s reporter, Paul Nutcher in “Polk County housing prices increase 30% as mortgage rates increase.” “You would finally have recovered some kind of affordability from the housing bubble, where you had the ...
Charter Schools

Biden Administration Copying California Law to Stifle Charter Schools

By Lance Izumi & McKenzie Richards Imagine a world where budding businesses would be required to both obtain permission to enter the marketplace from competitors and then prove to the government that their business would serve community needs. Makes no sense, right? Well, welcome to education policy, where the Biden ...
Blog

Permanent Solutions or Band-Aids: Solving the Decades-Old California Homelessness Crisis

California’s budget last year contained $12 billion, a record number, to address homelessness. Yet, California has the largest homeless population in the nation with, as of January 2020, around 161,500 individuals. California is one of the few states that experienced one of the largest homelessness increases between 2019-2020 with a ...
Podcast

Walter Stahr – Salmon Chase – Lincoln’s Vital Rival

Our podcast guest this week is New York Times bestselling biographer Walter Stahr on his new book on Salmon Chase.  Chase is often remembered as Lincoln’s rival for the Republican party nomination in 1860 – but he was much more.  He was one of the key leaders of the anti-slavery ...
Press Release

Dr. Henry Miller Discusses the Unknowns of Long Covid and Brain Fog on The John Batchelor Show on CBS

Dr. Henry Miller discusses the unknowns of long Covid and brain fog on The John Batchelor Show on CBS. Previous variants have shown that long Covid is a tremendous problem with some people experiencing symptoms for years after testing positive for the virus. You can listen to the full interview ...
CEQA

Chris Carr Highlighted For His New Study “The CEQA Gauntlet” and Quoted in Bloomberg

Chris Carr’s new study “The CEQA Gauntlet” was featured and quoted in the Bloomberg piece “Berkeley Housing Battle Revives Debate Over Environmental Law”. Carr discusses the problems CEQA poses today with Bloomberg. “You can be sure the authors of CEQA didn’t think about the Boschian hellscape we have today,” said ...
Agriculture

How California Agriculture Can Survive Another Year of Drought, State Water Cutbacks

Water management and drought preparedness should be cornerstones of every state in the West. Among the states suffering the most from lack of water is California. Water has shown itself to be a finite resource in many states, particularly those reliant upon surface snowpack sources from mountain ranges in the ...
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 ...
Climate Change

Wayne Winegarden Quoted on Pew Stateline on Cities Suing Oil Companies

PRI senior fellow in business and economics Wayne Winegarden was interviewed by Pew Stateline on the growing trend of cities filing lawsuits against oil companies for their supposed impact on climate change. “We choose to use energy, which is mostly fossil fuel, because it makes our lives better,” said Wayne ...
Business & Economics

Wayne Winegarden Discusses the Cost Benefits of Eliminating Wisconsin’s Minimum Markup Law in the Madison Reporter

PRI senior fellow in business and economics Wayne Winegarden was interviewed by the Madison Reporter on the cost benefits of eliminating Wisconsin’s minimum markup law than a gas tax holiday. “Eliminating the minimum markup law would create a healthier competitive environment and have beneficial cost implications in the longer-run than ...
Housing

Wayne Winegarden Discusses Inflation and the Housing Market with The Ledger

PRI Business and Economics Fellow, Wayne Winegarden, discusses inflation and its effect on the housing market with The Ledger’s reporter, Paul Nutcher in “Polk County housing prices increase 30% as mortgage rates increase.” “You would finally have recovered some kind of affordability from the housing bubble, where you had the ...
Charter Schools

Biden Administration Copying California Law to Stifle Charter Schools

By Lance Izumi & McKenzie Richards Imagine a world where budding businesses would be required to both obtain permission to enter the marketplace from competitors and then prove to the government that their business would serve community needs. Makes no sense, right? Well, welcome to education policy, where the Biden ...
Blog

Permanent Solutions or Band-Aids: Solving the Decades-Old California Homelessness Crisis

California’s budget last year contained $12 billion, a record number, to address homelessness. Yet, California has the largest homeless population in the nation with, as of January 2020, around 161,500 individuals. California is one of the few states that experienced one of the largest homelessness increases between 2019-2020 with a ...
Podcast

Walter Stahr – Salmon Chase – Lincoln’s Vital Rival

Our podcast guest this week is New York Times bestselling biographer Walter Stahr on his new book on Salmon Chase.  Chase is often remembered as Lincoln’s rival for the Republican party nomination in 1860 – but he was much more.  He was one of the key leaders of the anti-slavery ...
Press Release

Dr. Henry Miller Discusses the Unknowns of Long Covid and Brain Fog on The John Batchelor Show on CBS

Dr. Henry Miller discusses the unknowns of long Covid and brain fog on The John Batchelor Show on CBS. Previous variants have shown that long Covid is a tremendous problem with some people experiencing symptoms for years after testing positive for the virus. You can listen to the full interview ...
CEQA

Chris Carr Highlighted For His New Study “The CEQA Gauntlet” and Quoted in Bloomberg

Chris Carr’s new study “The CEQA Gauntlet” was featured and quoted in the Bloomberg piece “Berkeley Housing Battle Revives Debate Over Environmental Law”. Carr discusses the problems CEQA poses today with Bloomberg. “You can be sure the authors of CEQA didn’t think about the Boschian hellscape we have today,” said ...
Agriculture

How California Agriculture Can Survive Another Year of Drought, State Water Cutbacks

Water management and drought preparedness should be cornerstones of every state in the West. Among the states suffering the most from lack of water is California. Water has shown itself to be a finite resource in many states, particularly those reliant upon surface snowpack sources from mountain ranges in the ...
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 ...
Climate Change

Wayne Winegarden Quoted on Pew Stateline on Cities Suing Oil Companies

PRI senior fellow in business and economics Wayne Winegarden was interviewed by Pew Stateline on the growing trend of cities filing lawsuits against oil companies for their supposed impact on climate change. “We choose to use energy, which is mostly fossil fuel, because it makes our lives better,” said Wayne ...
Business & Economics

Wayne Winegarden Discusses the Cost Benefits of Eliminating Wisconsin’s Minimum Markup Law in the Madison Reporter

PRI senior fellow in business and economics Wayne Winegarden was interviewed by the Madison Reporter on the cost benefits of eliminating Wisconsin’s minimum markup law than a gas tax holiday. “Eliminating the minimum markup law would create a healthier competitive environment and have beneficial cost implications in the longer-run than ...
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