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Wayne Winegarden Discusses Inflation and the Housing Market with The Ledger
PRI Business and Economics Fellow, Wayne Winegarden, discusses inflation and its effect on the housing market with The Ledger’s reporter, Paul Nutcher in “Polk County housing prices increase 30% as mortgage rates increase.” “You would finally have recovered some kind of affordability from the housing bubble, where you had the ...
Blog
National Crime Victims Week 2022
For over 40 years America has recognized the last week of April as National Crime Victims Week. California honors Crime Victims Week in a variety of ways at the State and Local level. This year, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation adopted a theme of “Rights, Access and Equity” ...
Podcast
Walter Stahr – Salmon Chase – Lincoln’s Vital Rival
Our podcast guest this week is New York Times bestselling biographer Walter Stahr on his new book on Salmon Chase. Chase is often remembered as Lincoln’s rival for the Republican party nomination in 1860 – but he was much more. He was one of the key leaders of the anti-slavery ...
Press Release
Dr. Henry Miller Discusses the Unknowns of Long Covid and Brain Fog on The John Batchelor Show on CBS
Dr. Henry Miller discusses the unknowns of long Covid and brain fog on The John Batchelor Show on CBS. Previous variants have shown that long Covid is a tremendous problem with some people experiencing symptoms for years after testing positive for the virus. You can listen to the full interview ...
CEQA
Chris Carr Highlighted For His New Study “The CEQA Gauntlet” and Quoted in Bloomberg
Chris Carr’s new study “The CEQA Gauntlet” was featured and quoted in the Bloomberg piece “Berkeley Housing Battle Revives Debate Over Environmental Law”. Carr discusses the problems CEQA poses today with Bloomberg. “You can be sure the authors of CEQA didn’t think about the Boschian hellscape we have today,” said ...
Blog
California… We Gotta Get Outta This Place
Last fall, The Babylon Bee posted a piece of biting satire that said the U-Haul company had named Gov. Gavin Newsom as its salesperson of the year for the third time in a row “after a record-setting sales quarter.” “Thanks to Gavin Newsom, literally every middle-class family has moved out ...
Press Release
Dr. Henry Miller Discusses Banning COVID Drugs in Certain States on The Lars Larson Show
Dr. Henry Miller chats with Lars Larson on The Lars Larson show regarding the Food and Drug Administration stating they would exclude regions of the country certain treatments that are not as useful for some variants of COVID. Listen below.
Agriculture
Who Grows Your Peaches?
In 1973, March 22 was designated National Ag Day by the Agriculture Council of America and the inaugural celebration of the day was in 1979. Since the inception of National Ag Day, it has been expanded to encompass the week that March 22 falls in each year. I have to ...
Health Technology
Trimming Red Tape Isn’t Just For Health Emergencies
The federal public health emergency prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic is set to expire in mid-April. Some states have already let their own emergency declarations lapse. It’s about time. COVID-19 is no longer the crisis it was back in 2020. Living in a permanent state of emergency is unsustainable. But that doesn’t ...
Agriculture
Feckless Feds Freeze Out Frost Fix
“That morning I squeezed every orange and it felt like a wet sponge – I knew I lost the whole crop,” said Natalia Derevianko, a small farmer in the tiny Florida town of Archer, somewhere in the void between Orlando and Tallahassee. Florida’s peninsular climate offers farmers an opportunity to grow ...
Wayne Winegarden Discusses Inflation and the Housing Market with The Ledger
PRI Business and Economics Fellow, Wayne Winegarden, discusses inflation and its effect on the housing market with The Ledger’s reporter, Paul Nutcher in “Polk County housing prices increase 30% as mortgage rates increase.” “You would finally have recovered some kind of affordability from the housing bubble, where you had the ...
National Crime Victims Week 2022
For over 40 years America has recognized the last week of April as National Crime Victims Week. California honors Crime Victims Week in a variety of ways at the State and Local level. This year, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation adopted a theme of “Rights, Access and Equity” ...
Walter Stahr – Salmon Chase – Lincoln’s Vital Rival
Our podcast guest this week is New York Times bestselling biographer Walter Stahr on his new book on Salmon Chase. Chase is often remembered as Lincoln’s rival for the Republican party nomination in 1860 – but he was much more. He was one of the key leaders of the anti-slavery ...
Dr. Henry Miller Discusses the Unknowns of Long Covid and Brain Fog on The John Batchelor Show on CBS
Dr. Henry Miller discusses the unknowns of long Covid and brain fog on The John Batchelor Show on CBS. Previous variants have shown that long Covid is a tremendous problem with some people experiencing symptoms for years after testing positive for the virus. You can listen to the full interview ...
Chris Carr Highlighted For His New Study “The CEQA Gauntlet” and Quoted in Bloomberg
Chris Carr’s new study “The CEQA Gauntlet” was featured and quoted in the Bloomberg piece “Berkeley Housing Battle Revives Debate Over Environmental Law”. Carr discusses the problems CEQA poses today with Bloomberg. “You can be sure the authors of CEQA didn’t think about the Boschian hellscape we have today,” said ...
California… We Gotta Get Outta This Place
Last fall, The Babylon Bee posted a piece of biting satire that said the U-Haul company had named Gov. Gavin Newsom as its salesperson of the year for the third time in a row “after a record-setting sales quarter.” “Thanks to Gavin Newsom, literally every middle-class family has moved out ...
Dr. Henry Miller Discusses Banning COVID Drugs in Certain States on The Lars Larson Show
Dr. Henry Miller chats with Lars Larson on The Lars Larson show regarding the Food and Drug Administration stating they would exclude regions of the country certain treatments that are not as useful for some variants of COVID. Listen below.
Who Grows Your Peaches?
In 1973, March 22 was designated National Ag Day by the Agriculture Council of America and the inaugural celebration of the day was in 1979. Since the inception of National Ag Day, it has been expanded to encompass the week that March 22 falls in each year. I have to ...
Trimming Red Tape Isn’t Just For Health Emergencies
The federal public health emergency prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic is set to expire in mid-April. Some states have already let their own emergency declarations lapse. It’s about time. COVID-19 is no longer the crisis it was back in 2020. Living in a permanent state of emergency is unsustainable. But that doesn’t ...
Feckless Feds Freeze Out Frost Fix
“That morning I squeezed every orange and it felt like a wet sponge – I knew I lost the whole crop,” said Natalia Derevianko, a small farmer in the tiny Florida town of Archer, somewhere in the void between Orlando and Tallahassee. Florida’s peninsular climate offers farmers an opportunity to grow ...
