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State Budget Update: Scandal, Calls to Resist Cuts Mask State’s Growing Budget Shortfall
California’s budget problem is growing at an alarming rate. A new report recently released by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s office forecasts, based on updated revenue projections that the stat will face “a large budget problem by about $7 billion” over what Gov. Newsom projects for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 fiscal ...
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Keith Knopf – President and CEO of Raley’s
Our guest this week is Keith Knopf, President and CEO of Raley’s. Mr. Knopf was the keynote speaker at this year’s PRI Sacramento conference.
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The Ugly Californian
There’s no shortage of stories. A woman and her boyfriend who moved from California to Montana in 2020 “changed their licenses right away.” In “the most competitive race in recent memory” for the mayor’s office in Boise, Idaho, one candidate “ran on a very simple platform,” the Los Angeles Times ...
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Biden’s California Economy: Calling for national rent control
When running for president, Joe Biden often praised California’s governance and promised to nationalize many of the state’s policies. While Biden mostly has promoted the state’s infamous Assembly Bill 5, which was an attempt to largely outlaw independent contracting, the president also seeks to mimic the state in another way: ...
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Progressives misread housing market with attack on investors
There seems to be mild panic regarding investors buying up housing. The Washington Post reported last year that, “investors bought a record share of homes in 2021,” almost “one in seven homes sold in America’s top metropolitan areas” as well as “the most in at least two decades.” Often the ...
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Michael Shellenberger – Sacramento “Ideas in Action” Policy Conference
Our guest this week is best-selling author Michael Shellenberger who gave the closing remarks at this year’s Sacramento policy conference. Michael is the author of San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities and Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All. He is cofounder of the California Peace Coalition, an alliance ...
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Where is all the money going for homeless in California?
For years, PRI’s scholars have been watchdogs for how state government is spending billions of tax dollars on programs aimed at alleviating the state’s homeless problem. In their recent report, PRI’s Kerry Jackson and Wayne Winegarden analyzed the effectiveness of Project Homekey, the state’s primary program to fund the conversion ...
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Watch: Videos from 2023 PRI California Ideas in Action Conference
Keynote Speaker: Keith Knopf of Challenges and Opportunities of Doing Business in California Keith Knopf, the president and CEO of The Raley’s Companies, shares how state policies like Prop. 47 and green mandates affect the challenges and opportunities of doing business in California. Success Stories Turning Around Urban Communities Watch ...
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Latest Data Shows ‘California Premium’ Chasing More People Out of State
Using U.S. Census Bureau data, the Los Angeles Times reported last week that net migration from April 2020 to July 2022 was a 699,904-person loss for California as that many more moved out than moved in. That’s a loss greater than the population of the entire state of Vermont. (CalMatters ...
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California Has “Been There, Done That” on Push for Gas Stove Ban
California Has “Been There, Done That” on Push for Gas Stove Ban By Tim Anaya | February 16, 2023 News that the federal government is considering a ban on the sale of new gas stoves – “everything’s on the table” says a U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commissioner – sparked a ...
State Budget Update: Scandal, Calls to Resist Cuts Mask State’s Growing Budget Shortfall
California’s budget problem is growing at an alarming rate. A new report recently released by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s office forecasts, based on updated revenue projections that the stat will face “a large budget problem by about $7 billion” over what Gov. Newsom projects for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 fiscal ...
Keith Knopf – President and CEO of Raley’s
Our guest this week is Keith Knopf, President and CEO of Raley’s. Mr. Knopf was the keynote speaker at this year’s PRI Sacramento conference.
The Ugly Californian
There’s no shortage of stories. A woman and her boyfriend who moved from California to Montana in 2020 “changed their licenses right away.” In “the most competitive race in recent memory” for the mayor’s office in Boise, Idaho, one candidate “ran on a very simple platform,” the Los Angeles Times ...
Biden’s California Economy: Calling for national rent control
When running for president, Joe Biden often praised California’s governance and promised to nationalize many of the state’s policies. While Biden mostly has promoted the state’s infamous Assembly Bill 5, which was an attempt to largely outlaw independent contracting, the president also seeks to mimic the state in another way: ...
Progressives misread housing market with attack on investors
There seems to be mild panic regarding investors buying up housing. The Washington Post reported last year that, “investors bought a record share of homes in 2021,” almost “one in seven homes sold in America’s top metropolitan areas” as well as “the most in at least two decades.” Often the ...
Michael Shellenberger – Sacramento “Ideas in Action” Policy Conference
Our guest this week is best-selling author Michael Shellenberger who gave the closing remarks at this year’s Sacramento policy conference. Michael is the author of San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities and Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All. He is cofounder of the California Peace Coalition, an alliance ...
Where is all the money going for homeless in California?
For years, PRI’s scholars have been watchdogs for how state government is spending billions of tax dollars on programs aimed at alleviating the state’s homeless problem. In their recent report, PRI’s Kerry Jackson and Wayne Winegarden analyzed the effectiveness of Project Homekey, the state’s primary program to fund the conversion ...
Watch: Videos from 2023 PRI California Ideas in Action Conference
Keynote Speaker: Keith Knopf of Challenges and Opportunities of Doing Business in California Keith Knopf, the president and CEO of The Raley’s Companies, shares how state policies like Prop. 47 and green mandates affect the challenges and opportunities of doing business in California. Success Stories Turning Around Urban Communities Watch ...
Latest Data Shows ‘California Premium’ Chasing More People Out of State
Using U.S. Census Bureau data, the Los Angeles Times reported last week that net migration from April 2020 to July 2022 was a 699,904-person loss for California as that many more moved out than moved in. That’s a loss greater than the population of the entire state of Vermont. (CalMatters ...
California Has “Been There, Done That” on Push for Gas Stove Ban
California Has “Been There, Done That” on Push for Gas Stove Ban By Tim Anaya | February 16, 2023 News that the federal government is considering a ban on the sale of new gas stoves – “everything’s on the table” says a U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commissioner – sparked a ...
