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Adrian Moore – Saving California’s Infrastructure

This week’s podcast guest is Adrian Moore, vice president of the Reason Foundation. His areas of research are privatization, government and regulatory reform, transportation, urban growth, and utilities. Dr. Moore discusses his chapter on California’s infrastructure problems in PRI’s new book, Saving California. He also gives his perspective on Pres. ...
California

Rising Crime in California: Media Events Aren’t Enough

When California Gov. Gavin Newsom and a collection of mayors and law enforcement officials held a news conference in Long Beach last month to discuss, according to the governor’s office, “state efforts to address crime and reduce retail theft,” tongues wagged, optics sparkled, and a bill that passed both the ...
Book

In Advance of Recall Election, New PRI Book Offers Realistic Path to Saving California

Experts Offer Market-Based Solutions on Issues from Health Care to the Economy SACRAMENTO – With the September 14 recall on the horizon, the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute today released Saving California, a new book offering realistic, market-based reforms to 10 of the state’s major policy challenges. The authors are current ...
Blog

San Francisco’s Summer of Discontent

This summer, San Francisco’s politicians have likely endured their coldest winter ever.  As we write, there are no less than four recall efforts underway – three school board members and the district attorney.  If we throw in the statewide effort to recall the city’s former mayor, Gavin Newsom, that makes ...
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It’s Finally Infrastructure Week . . . But Is That a Good Thing?

At long last, it’s finally “Infrastructure Week.” On Wednesday, a group of Republican and Democrat senators resolved their final differences with President Biden and reached a long-elusive agreement on a bipartisan infrastructure bill authorizing $550 billion in new spending over 5 years.  Later that night, the Senate voted 67 to ...
Business & Economics

It’s The Private, Not Public, Sector That Will Overcome Our Challenges

Whether it is investing in infrastructure or addressing the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, President Biden and the Democratic Congress continue to believe that the government is the main driver of growth and innovation. This errant belief threatens our fiscal solvency and our ability to solve the serious problems we face as ...
Blog

The Mean Streets Of San Francisco Crime: Perception or Reality?

The official word is that the videos of San Francisco shoplifters are not accurate representations of crime in the city. The San Francisco Chronicle recently reported that Police Chief Bill Scott and Mayor London Breed have “sought to tamp down growing perceptions – fueled in part by the viral videos ...
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George Lucas, Reluctant YIMBY?

The wages of California city planning spare no man—not even George Lucas. As recently as late 2020, the filmmaker sued the California town of San Anselmo to clear up a “surveying error” that may revert a portion of his property to the heirs of its 1920s owners. It’s a trivial ...
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Despite Ring Scandal, Public-Private Partnerships Can Bring About True Community Policing

A few weeks ago, a neighbor knocked on my door. “My windows were smashed last night, but nothing was stolen,” she explained, clearly stressed, “my Ring camera caught the crime on film, but I could not identify the man or see the vehicle he left in.” She waited expectantly. Confused, ...
California

Steven Greenhut Joins KFBK Morning News to Talk Drought, Water

Steven Greenhut, author of PRI’s “Winning the Water Wars,” talks about California’s drought, water storage, the policy of “water abundance,” and what’s next for Californians.
California

Adrian Moore – Saving California’s Infrastructure

This week’s podcast guest is Adrian Moore, vice president of the Reason Foundation. His areas of research are privatization, government and regulatory reform, transportation, urban growth, and utilities. Dr. Moore discusses his chapter on California’s infrastructure problems in PRI’s new book, Saving California. He also gives his perspective on Pres. ...
California

Rising Crime in California: Media Events Aren’t Enough

When California Gov. Gavin Newsom and a collection of mayors and law enforcement officials held a news conference in Long Beach last month to discuss, according to the governor’s office, “state efforts to address crime and reduce retail theft,” tongues wagged, optics sparkled, and a bill that passed both the ...
Book

In Advance of Recall Election, New PRI Book Offers Realistic Path to Saving California

Experts Offer Market-Based Solutions on Issues from Health Care to the Economy SACRAMENTO – With the September 14 recall on the horizon, the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute today released Saving California, a new book offering realistic, market-based reforms to 10 of the state’s major policy challenges. The authors are current ...
Blog

San Francisco’s Summer of Discontent

This summer, San Francisco’s politicians have likely endured their coldest winter ever.  As we write, there are no less than four recall efforts underway – three school board members and the district attorney.  If we throw in the statewide effort to recall the city’s former mayor, Gavin Newsom, that makes ...
Blog

It’s Finally Infrastructure Week . . . But Is That a Good Thing?

At long last, it’s finally “Infrastructure Week.” On Wednesday, a group of Republican and Democrat senators resolved their final differences with President Biden and reached a long-elusive agreement on a bipartisan infrastructure bill authorizing $550 billion in new spending over 5 years.  Later that night, the Senate voted 67 to ...
Business & Economics

It’s The Private, Not Public, Sector That Will Overcome Our Challenges

Whether it is investing in infrastructure or addressing the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, President Biden and the Democratic Congress continue to believe that the government is the main driver of growth and innovation. This errant belief threatens our fiscal solvency and our ability to solve the serious problems we face as ...
Blog

The Mean Streets Of San Francisco Crime: Perception or Reality?

The official word is that the videos of San Francisco shoplifters are not accurate representations of crime in the city. The San Francisco Chronicle recently reported that Police Chief Bill Scott and Mayor London Breed have “sought to tamp down growing perceptions – fueled in part by the viral videos ...
Blog

George Lucas, Reluctant YIMBY?

The wages of California city planning spare no man—not even George Lucas. As recently as late 2020, the filmmaker sued the California town of San Anselmo to clear up a “surveying error” that may revert a portion of his property to the heirs of its 1920s owners. It’s a trivial ...
Blog

Despite Ring Scandal, Public-Private Partnerships Can Bring About True Community Policing

A few weeks ago, a neighbor knocked on my door. “My windows were smashed last night, but nothing was stolen,” she explained, clearly stressed, “my Ring camera caught the crime on film, but I could not identify the man or see the vehicle he left in.” She waited expectantly. Confused, ...
California

Steven Greenhut Joins KFBK Morning News to Talk Drought, Water

Steven Greenhut, author of PRI’s “Winning the Water Wars,” talks about California’s drought, water storage, the policy of “water abundance,” and what’s next for Californians.
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