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California
PRI’s Tim Anaya discusses Coronavirus on Commonwealth Club Week to Week Political Roundtable
Watch Tim Anaya, PRI’s senior director of communications and the Sacramento office, discuss how the political and economic impact of the coronavirus on a special livestream of the Commonwealth Club’s “Week to Week” Political Roundtable, moderated by John Zipperer. Other panelists include Dr. Gina Baleria, Assistant Professor, Sonoma State University ...
Business & Economics
Entrepreneurship: PRI’s Second Annual Policy Conference
This podcast is a recorded panel discussion on entrepreneurship from PRI’s second annual policy conference in Sacramento. The state’s new law re-classifying many independent contractors to employees has put the livelihoods of many entrepreneurs and independent contractors at risk. Our panel of distinguished speakers discusses this issue as well as ...
Health Care
Sally Pipes Quoted Refuting ‘Medicare for all,” Coronavirus
Title: Sanders & AOC Use CoronaVirus to Push Argument for ‘Medicare-for-All’ By: Jim Cardle Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders – who is off the campaign trail due to the CoronaVirus threat – was asked if he felt frustrated that his fellow Democrat and presidential nominee competitor Joe Biden had attacked his “Medicare-for-All” ...
California
California must do a better job of helping homeless children
By Lance Izumi and Michele Steeb As Gov. Gavin Newsom noted in his 2020 State of the State address, California had the second highest increase in state homelessness in 2019. But a newly released report by State Auditor Elaine Howle found that California public schools undercounted homeless students by at ...
Blog
What We’re Watching – March 13
Tim Anaya – Making the Perfect Irish Soda Bread With all the talk of coronavirus frightening us these days, I think we should focus on things that bring a smile to our faces this weekend, like St. Patrick’s Day. Even though the parades are cancelled, this doesn’t mean that corned ...
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 ...
PRI’s Tim Anaya discusses Coronavirus on Commonwealth Club Week to Week Political Roundtable
Watch Tim Anaya, PRI’s senior director of communications and the Sacramento office, discuss how the political and economic impact of the coronavirus on a special livestream of the Commonwealth Club’s “Week to Week” Political Roundtable, moderated by John Zipperer. Other panelists include Dr. Gina Baleria, Assistant Professor, Sonoma State University ...
Entrepreneurship: PRI’s Second Annual Policy Conference
This podcast is a recorded panel discussion on entrepreneurship from PRI’s second annual policy conference in Sacramento. The state’s new law re-classifying many independent contractors to employees has put the livelihoods of many entrepreneurs and independent contractors at risk. Our panel of distinguished speakers discusses this issue as well as ...
Sally Pipes Quoted Refuting ‘Medicare for all,” Coronavirus
Title: Sanders & AOC Use CoronaVirus to Push Argument for ‘Medicare-for-All’ By: Jim Cardle Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders – who is off the campaign trail due to the CoronaVirus threat – was asked if he felt frustrated that his fellow Democrat and presidential nominee competitor Joe Biden had attacked his “Medicare-for-All” ...
California must do a better job of helping homeless children
By Lance Izumi and Michele Steeb As Gov. Gavin Newsom noted in his 2020 State of the State address, California had the second highest increase in state homelessness in 2019. But a newly released report by State Auditor Elaine Howle found that California public schools undercounted homeless students by at ...
What We’re Watching – March 13
Tim Anaya – Making the Perfect Irish Soda Bread With all the talk of coronavirus frightening us these days, I think we should focus on things that bring a smile to our faces this weekend, like St. Patrick’s Day. Even though the parades are cancelled, this doesn’t mean that corned ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
