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California Can Either Make Use of Its Sea of Oil, Or Drown In It
Earlier this month, The New York Times gave space to a climate activist who argued that policymakers must “Free California of Fossil Fuels.” Six days later, the Times’ California Today feature covered the state’s “Move to Mandate 100% Carbon-Free Electricity” through Senate Bill 100. A significant portion of Californians would agree ...
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PRI’s Kerry Jackson Featured in Ozy.com Story on Poverty in California
1 in 5 Californians is Poor. Housing Prices Are to Blame By Nick Fouriezos In the Netflix television show Altered Carbon, the fears of rampant income inequality are fully realized. High society is taken literally, as the rich and wealthy live in a cloud city in the sky. The series is set hundreds ...
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California’s War on Affordable Health Insurance
“A crisis of affordability.” That’s what is plaguing the individual health insurance market, according to Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. The culprit? Obamacare. The health law’s regulations have steadily driven up the cost of insurance. Between 2013 — the year before most of Obamacare’s ...
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Other Countries are Abandoning Basic Income – Will Stockton Learn from These Failures?
During her recent campaign swing through California, Democratic socialist Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez visited the asparagus capital of America to meet with Mayor Michael Tubbs and explore ways to take a local universal basic income plan nationwide. “We talked about the similarities between her district and Stockton, about increasing opportunity, and basic ...
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Shouldn’t Californians Have More Choices in Health Care Insurance? Lawmakers Don’t Think So
The Trump administration recently announced a regulatory change that “proposes to expand the availability of short-term, limited-duration health insurance by allowing consumers to buy plans providing coverage for any period of less than 12 months, rather than the current (Obamacare) maximum period of less than three months.” Naturally, California lawmakers ...
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Sex and the City and Subsidies
We almost never find ourselves on the same side as celebs, so when “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon, now running for governor of New York, recently railed against taxpayer subsidies for the film industry, we couldn’t help but pop the popcorn. Bashing tax subsidies is especially titillating news ...
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Parents Don’t Need Sacramento to Make Their Kids’ Food Choices
I’ve written before about Sacramento’s efforts to try and dictate how people live their lives through over-reaching legislation. On Thursday, we saw that some Sacramento liberals are taking things a step further, telling California’s parents how they should raise their children. Senate Bill 1192, by Sen. Bill Monning, D-Santa Cruz, ...
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Richard Samuelson – Is Senator Zuckerberg or Soros a Good Thing? Making The Case for a Political Elite
Cal State San Bernardino professor and historian Richard Samuelson joins us to discuss his upcoming book on John Adams and his take – shaped by Adams’ argument – that the best place to handle a runaway elite who want to change the world like Mark Zuckerberg or George Soros would ...
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What We’re Watching – Remembering the Queen of Soul
Rowena Itchon – The Diplomat and the Diva America mourns the Queen of Soul – here’s Aretha Franklin and Condoleezza Rice teaming up at a benefit conference in Philadelphia — the Diplomat and the Diva. Tim Anaya – Presidential Medal of Freedom Winner Here’s a video of President Bush showing ...
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Sacramento’s Urge To ‘Police’ The Internet Is A Foolish Gesture
Just after the New Year began, California lawmakers, sore that the Federal Communications Commission restored a stolen freedom and repealed the Obama-era net neutrality rule, introduced their own net neutrality bill. The California Internet Consumer Protection and Net Neutrality Act was gutted in June, but it has returned, as ugly ...
California Can Either Make Use of Its Sea of Oil, Or Drown In It
Earlier this month, The New York Times gave space to a climate activist who argued that policymakers must “Free California of Fossil Fuels.” Six days later, the Times’ California Today feature covered the state’s “Move to Mandate 100% Carbon-Free Electricity” through Senate Bill 100. A significant portion of Californians would agree ...
PRI’s Kerry Jackson Featured in Ozy.com Story on Poverty in California
1 in 5 Californians is Poor. Housing Prices Are to Blame By Nick Fouriezos In the Netflix television show Altered Carbon, the fears of rampant income inequality are fully realized. High society is taken literally, as the rich and wealthy live in a cloud city in the sky. The series is set hundreds ...
California’s War on Affordable Health Insurance
“A crisis of affordability.” That’s what is plaguing the individual health insurance market, according to Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. The culprit? Obamacare. The health law’s regulations have steadily driven up the cost of insurance. Between 2013 — the year before most of Obamacare’s ...
Other Countries are Abandoning Basic Income – Will Stockton Learn from These Failures?
During her recent campaign swing through California, Democratic socialist Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez visited the asparagus capital of America to meet with Mayor Michael Tubbs and explore ways to take a local universal basic income plan nationwide. “We talked about the similarities between her district and Stockton, about increasing opportunity, and basic ...
Shouldn’t Californians Have More Choices in Health Care Insurance? Lawmakers Don’t Think So
The Trump administration recently announced a regulatory change that “proposes to expand the availability of short-term, limited-duration health insurance by allowing consumers to buy plans providing coverage for any period of less than 12 months, rather than the current (Obamacare) maximum period of less than three months.” Naturally, California lawmakers ...
Sex and the City and Subsidies
We almost never find ourselves on the same side as celebs, so when “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon, now running for governor of New York, recently railed against taxpayer subsidies for the film industry, we couldn’t help but pop the popcorn. Bashing tax subsidies is especially titillating news ...
Parents Don’t Need Sacramento to Make Their Kids’ Food Choices
I’ve written before about Sacramento’s efforts to try and dictate how people live their lives through over-reaching legislation. On Thursday, we saw that some Sacramento liberals are taking things a step further, telling California’s parents how they should raise their children. Senate Bill 1192, by Sen. Bill Monning, D-Santa Cruz, ...
Richard Samuelson – Is Senator Zuckerberg or Soros a Good Thing? Making The Case for a Political Elite
Cal State San Bernardino professor and historian Richard Samuelson joins us to discuss his upcoming book on John Adams and his take – shaped by Adams’ argument – that the best place to handle a runaway elite who want to change the world like Mark Zuckerberg or George Soros would ...
What We’re Watching – Remembering the Queen of Soul
Rowena Itchon – The Diplomat and the Diva America mourns the Queen of Soul – here’s Aretha Franklin and Condoleezza Rice teaming up at a benefit conference in Philadelphia — the Diplomat and the Diva. Tim Anaya – Presidential Medal of Freedom Winner Here’s a video of President Bush showing ...
Sacramento’s Urge To ‘Police’ The Internet Is A Foolish Gesture
Just after the New Year began, California lawmakers, sore that the Federal Communications Commission restored a stolen freedom and repealed the Obama-era net neutrality rule, introduced their own net neutrality bill. The California Internet Consumer Protection and Net Neutrality Act was gutted in June, but it has returned, as ugly ...
