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We Need More Educational Choice Options for Special Needs Children

With the education world in flux because of the COVID pandemic, it is time to push for the broadest range of education options possible for all children, including those with special needs. My new book A Kite in a Hurricane No More, which I co-authored with Mia Giordano, tells the ...
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Populist Politicians Meet Antitrust Cancel Culture

The ill-winds of populism are again blowing across the American political landscape. This thin veneer of ideology only seeks to divide people, diving a wedge between “the people,” presented as the forces of good, against “the elite,” portrayed as evil. The most recent iteration of this divisive approach to politics ...
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Biden’s New EPA Chief Should Heed the Lessons from His Home State

President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Michael Regan to lead the EPA. Regan worked at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for years, and has been North Carolina’s environmental chief since 2018. As North Carolina’s top environmentalist, Regan has opposed constructing natural gas infrastructure, claiming North Carolina’s clean energy future is not ...
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Is Newsom Learning Anything From The Courts That Are Telling Him ‘No’?

Twice in recent weeks, California superior court judges upended government pandemic restrictions. Is the governor’s office getting the message? On Dec. 8, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James Chalfant told the county that its ban on outdoor dining “is an abuse of the (health) department’s emergency powers, (and) is not ...
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Winners and Losers – December 18

Tim Anaya – Senior Director of Communications Winner – Tesla, who makes their debut today on the S&P 500.  According to Reuters, “Elon Musk’s Tesla on Monday will become the most valuable company ever admitted to Wall Street’s main benchmark, accounting for over 1% of the index. The shares have ...
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Nevada Experience Shows Charter and Private Schools Could Lose Out on Covid-19 Funds

On December 3rd, in a live CNN interview with Jake Tapper, president-elect Joe Biden declared his plans to re-open elementary schools nation-wide. After speaking with the leaders of the teacher unions, he determined that sanitization, ventilation, and more teachers (for smaller pods of students) would cost $100 billion nationwide, for ...
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Stockton Voters Reject Mayor Who Pushed Basic Income, Yet Liberal State Lawmakers Embrace Plan

One of the more surprising results from November’s election was the surprise defeat of Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs in his bid for re-election to a Republican upstart Kevin Lincoln, a pastor and former George W. Bush administration official who is both black and Latino. Tubbs won national attention for his ...
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California’s Scandal-Plagued Unemployment Agency

The number of Californians certified for unemployment insurance is now at 1.6 million compared to October last year before the pandemic, when just 260,000 Californians received unemployment checks. Going into the holidays, a heart-breaking one in 10 Californians are unemployed.  Even more anguishing, the state’s Employment Development Department (EDD), the ...
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Biden’s Trade Policy with China

Several possibilities have been offered for how the Biden administration will shift U.S. trade policy including scrapping the Trump trade negotiations with China through executive order and working with Asian allies to pressure China. Much of the Trump administration’s focus on China was conducted through two trade provisions: Section 301 ...
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PRI’s Winners and Losers – Week of December 11

Tim Anaya Senior Director of Communications and the Sacramento Office  Winner:  Restaurants in Los Angeles.  Restaurants in the City of Angels have been a punching bag for Los Angeles County health director Barbara Ferrer and for the county Board of Supervisors, who recently announced the shut-down of outdoor dining in ...
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We Need More Educational Choice Options for Special Needs Children

With the education world in flux because of the COVID pandemic, it is time to push for the broadest range of education options possible for all children, including those with special needs. My new book A Kite in a Hurricane No More, which I co-authored with Mia Giordano, tells the ...
Blog

Populist Politicians Meet Antitrust Cancel Culture

The ill-winds of populism are again blowing across the American political landscape. This thin veneer of ideology only seeks to divide people, diving a wedge between “the people,” presented as the forces of good, against “the elite,” portrayed as evil. The most recent iteration of this divisive approach to politics ...
Blog

Biden’s New EPA Chief Should Heed the Lessons from His Home State

President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Michael Regan to lead the EPA. Regan worked at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for years, and has been North Carolina’s environmental chief since 2018. As North Carolina’s top environmentalist, Regan has opposed constructing natural gas infrastructure, claiming North Carolina’s clean energy future is not ...
Blog

Is Newsom Learning Anything From The Courts That Are Telling Him ‘No’?

Twice in recent weeks, California superior court judges upended government pandemic restrictions. Is the governor’s office getting the message? On Dec. 8, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James Chalfant told the county that its ban on outdoor dining “is an abuse of the (health) department’s emergency powers, (and) is not ...
Blog

Winners and Losers – December 18

Tim Anaya – Senior Director of Communications Winner – Tesla, who makes their debut today on the S&P 500.  According to Reuters, “Elon Musk’s Tesla on Monday will become the most valuable company ever admitted to Wall Street’s main benchmark, accounting for over 1% of the index. The shares have ...
Blog

Nevada Experience Shows Charter and Private Schools Could Lose Out on Covid-19 Funds

On December 3rd, in a live CNN interview with Jake Tapper, president-elect Joe Biden declared his plans to re-open elementary schools nation-wide. After speaking with the leaders of the teacher unions, he determined that sanitization, ventilation, and more teachers (for smaller pods of students) would cost $100 billion nationwide, for ...
Blog

Stockton Voters Reject Mayor Who Pushed Basic Income, Yet Liberal State Lawmakers Embrace Plan

One of the more surprising results from November’s election was the surprise defeat of Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs in his bid for re-election to a Republican upstart Kevin Lincoln, a pastor and former George W. Bush administration official who is both black and Latino. Tubbs won national attention for his ...
Blog

California’s Scandal-Plagued Unemployment Agency

The number of Californians certified for unemployment insurance is now at 1.6 million compared to October last year before the pandemic, when just 260,000 Californians received unemployment checks. Going into the holidays, a heart-breaking one in 10 Californians are unemployed.  Even more anguishing, the state’s Employment Development Department (EDD), the ...
Blog

Biden’s Trade Policy with China

Several possibilities have been offered for how the Biden administration will shift U.S. trade policy including scrapping the Trump trade negotiations with China through executive order and working with Asian allies to pressure China. Much of the Trump administration’s focus on China was conducted through two trade provisions: Section 301 ...
Blog

PRI’s Winners and Losers – Week of December 11

Tim Anaya Senior Director of Communications and the Sacramento Office  Winner:  Restaurants in Los Angeles.  Restaurants in the City of Angels have been a punching bag for Los Angeles County health director Barbara Ferrer and for the county Board of Supervisors, who recently announced the shut-down of outdoor dining in ...
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