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Commentary
Environmentalists Oppose Mojave Desert Solar Power
Environmental groups advocating for land conservation and protection of endangered species are lining up in opposition to measures to expedite solar energy projects on federal lands, particularly in the Mojave Desert, announced by Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar on June 29. Loss of Water, Habitat With solar power plants having ...
Commentary
Mackinac Center Analysts Refute NRDC Green Energy Claims
The Examiner, September 1, 2009 Reliance on renewable mandates will cost, not create, jobs MIDLAND — The adoption of “green energy” policy recommendations made in a recent report by the National Resources Defense Council would push Michigan’s economy into a freefall, according to Mackinac Center for Public Policy energy analysts ...
Business & Economics
Policy Alerts
Policy Alert This publication, sent via email or fax, highlights PRI’s latest releases, media coverage, and impact on public policy in California and across the nation. Learn how PRI is affecting California and the Nation. > Sign Up> Unsubscribe May 5, 2010 April 29, 2010 April 22, 2010 April 15, ...
Business & Economics
Conservative Leaders on Costly Lawsuits and Health Care Reform
MEMO FOR THE MOVEMENT RE: Costly lawsuit abuses drive up medical expenses and add billions of dollars to the cost of healthcare, but provide only marginal assistance to injured patients. Yet Congress refuses to address this problem or to make it part of meaningful healthcare reform. Concerned citizens need to ...
Commentary
Another Attack On Big Drugmakers
Health Care: Powerful California Rep. Henry Waxman wants to save Medicare billions by going after drug industry “windfalls.” As usual, his “savings” will very quickly turn into higher costs for you-know-who. So many industries, so little time — that might be the Democrats’ motto. By demonizing the drugmakers, Waxman and ...
Climate Change
Peril Policy Segment 10: It’s A Moral Issue
OpenMarket.org, August 24, 2009 Today’s excerpt from CEI’s film, Policy Peril: Why Global Warming Policies Are More Dangerous Than Global Warming Itself, offers a free-market perspective on Al Gore’s proclamation, at the end of An Inconvenient Truth, that global warming is “a moral issue.” Considered in the abstract, apart from ...
Health Care
Sally C. Pipes on “The Mark Levin Show” with host Tom Marr
Sally C. Pipes was on WCBM 680 Talk Radio – The Mark Levin Show with host Tom Marr. Sally talked about health care reform proposals being discussed and her book, The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide.
Business & Economics
Rose D. Friedman (1911 – 2009)
She was lucid and lively as ever at our Friedman Legacy event on July 31, but now Rose Friedman, a champion of liberty, has passed away at the grand age of 97. She was dearly beloved at PRI along with her husband Milton, who passed away in November of 2006, ...
Business & Economics
California Ranks 48th Worst State in Labor Performance
550 people leave state each day San Francisco, August 18, 2009 – The Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California, found that California’s labor performance over the last five years is among the worst performing in the nation, ranking 48th and besting only Michigan and Mississippi. ...
Environment
Goals of bill to reduce carbon dioxide emissions impractical
The primary goal of cap-and-trade legislation is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. It’s really that simple. But, as someone once said, the devil is in the details. And, that saying holds true for cap and trade, too. Steven Hayward, a Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, put pencil to paper ...
Environmentalists Oppose Mojave Desert Solar Power
Environmental groups advocating for land conservation and protection of endangered species are lining up in opposition to measures to expedite solar energy projects on federal lands, particularly in the Mojave Desert, announced by Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar on June 29. Loss of Water, Habitat With solar power plants having ...
Mackinac Center Analysts Refute NRDC Green Energy Claims
The Examiner, September 1, 2009 Reliance on renewable mandates will cost, not create, jobs MIDLAND — The adoption of “green energy” policy recommendations made in a recent report by the National Resources Defense Council would push Michigan’s economy into a freefall, according to Mackinac Center for Public Policy energy analysts ...
Policy Alerts
Policy Alert This publication, sent via email or fax, highlights PRI’s latest releases, media coverage, and impact on public policy in California and across the nation. Learn how PRI is affecting California and the Nation. > Sign Up> Unsubscribe May 5, 2010 April 29, 2010 April 22, 2010 April 15, ...
Conservative Leaders on Costly Lawsuits and Health Care Reform
MEMO FOR THE MOVEMENT RE: Costly lawsuit abuses drive up medical expenses and add billions of dollars to the cost of healthcare, but provide only marginal assistance to injured patients. Yet Congress refuses to address this problem or to make it part of meaningful healthcare reform. Concerned citizens need to ...
Another Attack On Big Drugmakers
Health Care: Powerful California Rep. Henry Waxman wants to save Medicare billions by going after drug industry “windfalls.” As usual, his “savings” will very quickly turn into higher costs for you-know-who. So many industries, so little time — that might be the Democrats’ motto. By demonizing the drugmakers, Waxman and ...
Peril Policy Segment 10: It’s A Moral Issue
OpenMarket.org, August 24, 2009 Today’s excerpt from CEI’s film, Policy Peril: Why Global Warming Policies Are More Dangerous Than Global Warming Itself, offers a free-market perspective on Al Gore’s proclamation, at the end of An Inconvenient Truth, that global warming is “a moral issue.” Considered in the abstract, apart from ...
Sally C. Pipes on “The Mark Levin Show” with host Tom Marr
Sally C. Pipes was on WCBM 680 Talk Radio – The Mark Levin Show with host Tom Marr. Sally talked about health care reform proposals being discussed and her book, The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide.
Rose D. Friedman (1911 – 2009)
She was lucid and lively as ever at our Friedman Legacy event on July 31, but now Rose Friedman, a champion of liberty, has passed away at the grand age of 97. She was dearly beloved at PRI along with her husband Milton, who passed away in November of 2006, ...
California Ranks 48th Worst State in Labor Performance
550 people leave state each day San Francisco, August 18, 2009 – The Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California, found that California’s labor performance over the last five years is among the worst performing in the nation, ranking 48th and besting only Michigan and Mississippi. ...
Goals of bill to reduce carbon dioxide emissions impractical
The primary goal of cap-and-trade legislation is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. It’s really that simple. But, as someone once said, the devil is in the details. And, that saying holds true for cap and trade, too. Steven Hayward, a Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, put pencil to paper ...
