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Judge Janice Rogers Brown – Threats to Our Constitution

Janice Rogers Brown, a former U.S. Court of Appeals judge for the D.C. Circuit and former Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court was the keynote speaker at PRI’s second annual policy conference in Sacramento. Judge Brown discusses the threats to the U.S. Constitution and American democracy because of current ...
Blog

What We’re Watching – The Best of PRI’s 2020 CA Ideas in Action Conference

PRI’s second annual “California Ideas in Action” conference was held a few weeks back.  This year’s conference featured PRI scholars, policy experts, and real life changemakers discussing how free market ideas can address the new decade’s major challenges in California – homelessness, the future of work, education, health care, and ...
California

The PRI All Stars Super Tuesday Wrap Up

The PRI All Stars discuss the big takeaways from Super Tuesday – including Joe Biden’s big comeback, which candidate would be easier for President Trump to defeat, and voter attitudes on single-payer health care and socialism. We also talk about the interesting California legislative races and preview the mega ballot ...
Climate Change

PRI’s Lance Izumi Featured in Heartland Institute Piece on Climate Change Education Plan

Title: California Considers Imposing Climate Change Education By Kenneth Artz A bill under consideration in the California legislature would require schoolchildren to learn humans are causing dangerous climate change, in order to graduate. A.B. 1922 would require a climate change curriculum for students in grades 1 through 6, and knowledge ...
Education

Lance Izumi Featured in Washington Examiner Op-Ed on Unions Targeting Betsy DeVos

Unions target Betsy DeVos as she defends children By Rebecca Friedrichs Union bosses have tried to run Education Secretary Betsy DeVos out of office since the day she was nominated. Why? Because DeVos champions education freedom scholarships and reductions to the federal education budget that return control to parents. Educational ...
Blog

What We’re Watching – Leap Year Edition

Tim Anaya – Happy Leap Day 2020 Saturday is Leap Day – the one time every four years when we actually observe the date February 29th.  This begs the question – what are you going to do with your extra day this year?  In this video, we learn the results ...
California

PRI 2nd Annual Policy Conference: The Homeless Crisis

California’s growing homeless crisis is impacting nearly everyone, especially those living in big cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento. In Governor Newsom’s recent State of the State address, he reportedly spent 35 of his 42 minute speech on the homeless crisis.  On the same day, PRI held an ...
Blog

What We’re Watching – February 21, 2020

Tim Anaya – How Would Single Payer Health Care Change California ICYMI – Check out this recent interview with PRI’s Sally Pipes on the “California Insider” program from the Epoch Times, where she discusses California’s single-payer commission, and makes her case for why Medicare-for-All would be a disaster in the ...
Health Care

Rep. Buddy Carter Interviews Sally Pipes on C-SPAN on Medicare for All

Sally C. Pipes recently sat down on After Words on C-SPAN making the argument against Medicare for All and sharing anecdotes from her new book False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All. Pipes was interviewed by Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Georgia). Click here to watch the entire ...
Health Care

Sally Pipes Discusses New Medicare for All Book with the Heartland Institute

Sally Pipes recently sat down with Heartland Institute’s health care policy advisor Sarah Lee to discuss her new book, “False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All.” In her new book, Pipes lays out all the proposals being floated at the moment from presidential candidates who flirt ...
Business & Economics

Judge Janice Rogers Brown – Threats to Our Constitution

Janice Rogers Brown, a former U.S. Court of Appeals judge for the D.C. Circuit and former Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court was the keynote speaker at PRI’s second annual policy conference in Sacramento. Judge Brown discusses the threats to the U.S. Constitution and American democracy because of current ...
Blog

What We’re Watching – The Best of PRI’s 2020 CA Ideas in Action Conference

PRI’s second annual “California Ideas in Action” conference was held a few weeks back.  This year’s conference featured PRI scholars, policy experts, and real life changemakers discussing how free market ideas can address the new decade’s major challenges in California – homelessness, the future of work, education, health care, and ...
California

The PRI All Stars Super Tuesday Wrap Up

The PRI All Stars discuss the big takeaways from Super Tuesday – including Joe Biden’s big comeback, which candidate would be easier for President Trump to defeat, and voter attitudes on single-payer health care and socialism. We also talk about the interesting California legislative races and preview the mega ballot ...
Climate Change

PRI’s Lance Izumi Featured in Heartland Institute Piece on Climate Change Education Plan

Title: California Considers Imposing Climate Change Education By Kenneth Artz A bill under consideration in the California legislature would require schoolchildren to learn humans are causing dangerous climate change, in order to graduate. A.B. 1922 would require a climate change curriculum for students in grades 1 through 6, and knowledge ...
Education

Lance Izumi Featured in Washington Examiner Op-Ed on Unions Targeting Betsy DeVos

Unions target Betsy DeVos as she defends children By Rebecca Friedrichs Union bosses have tried to run Education Secretary Betsy DeVos out of office since the day she was nominated. Why? Because DeVos champions education freedom scholarships and reductions to the federal education budget that return control to parents. Educational ...
Blog

What We’re Watching – Leap Year Edition

Tim Anaya – Happy Leap Day 2020 Saturday is Leap Day – the one time every four years when we actually observe the date February 29th.  This begs the question – what are you going to do with your extra day this year?  In this video, we learn the results ...
California

PRI 2nd Annual Policy Conference: The Homeless Crisis

California’s growing homeless crisis is impacting nearly everyone, especially those living in big cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento. In Governor Newsom’s recent State of the State address, he reportedly spent 35 of his 42 minute speech on the homeless crisis.  On the same day, PRI held an ...
Blog

What We’re Watching – February 21, 2020

Tim Anaya – How Would Single Payer Health Care Change California ICYMI – Check out this recent interview with PRI’s Sally Pipes on the “California Insider” program from the Epoch Times, where she discusses California’s single-payer commission, and makes her case for why Medicare-for-All would be a disaster in the ...
Health Care

Rep. Buddy Carter Interviews Sally Pipes on C-SPAN on Medicare for All

Sally C. Pipes recently sat down on After Words on C-SPAN making the argument against Medicare for All and sharing anecdotes from her new book False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All. Pipes was interviewed by Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Georgia). Click here to watch the entire ...
Health Care

Sally Pipes Discusses New Medicare for All Book with the Heartland Institute

Sally Pipes recently sat down with Heartland Institute’s health care policy advisor Sarah Lee to discuss her new book, “False Premise, False Promise: The Disastrous Reality of Medicare for All.” In her new book, Pipes lays out all the proposals being floated at the moment from presidential candidates who flirt ...
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