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NEW BOOK EXCERPT: ‘Protecting Cities from Wildfires’
NEW BOOK EXCERPT: ‘PROTECTING CITIES FROM WILDFIRES’ Rethinking land use, housing and rebuilding regulations by Steven Greenhut | August 15, 2025 This is an excerpt from Greenhut’s new Free Cities Center booklet, “Protecting Cities from Wildfires: Improving California’s Land-Use, Water and Brush-Clearance Strategies.” After the Los Angeles wildfires began their ...
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Pulling mRNA Research Funding Undermines Future Innovations
Pulling mRNA Research Funding Undermines Future Innovations by Wayne Winegarden | August 15, 2025 The U.S. is a global leader in the innovative pharmaceutical industry, in part, because the public and private sectors effectively fulfill their complimentary roles. The federal government funds basic research that expands our knowledge base; the ...
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Compassion, meat eating can co-exist
Our conversation came back to me when I received an email from an animal rights activist. During the email exchange I wrote, “Please do not misunderstand me, as a former 4-H’er, a beef cattle owner and raiser, a researcher, and agriculture advocate, I understand your concerns, but I do not ...
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SpaceX Vs. California – Again
It took Elon Musk’s rocket company about a week to challenge the commission in court, arguing in its October filing that it was “egregiously and unlawfully overreaching its authority.” “First, the commission has engaged in naked political discrimination against” SpaceX, reads the complaint, and, second, the agency “is trying to ...
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Read the latest from PRI's Free Cities Center
Urbanists See Portents of Doom: Will floods, fire or earthquakes wipe out Sacramento?
When Gov. Leland Stanford was inaugurated on Jan. 10, 1862, he didn’t walk to the state Capitol, nor did he take a carriage. Instead, he got into a small boat and rowed from the governor’s mansion to the Capitol steps. The Great Flood of 1862 is something that anyone interested ...
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The Most-Regulated State In The Union
When the Mercatus Center last compiled its Snapshots of State Regulations, California was far ahead, or actually far behind, the next closest state, burdening residents with a combined 420,000 regulations, compared with about 300,000 for New York. Idaho, the least regulated state, imposed around 31,000 on residents. “Jurisdictions that allow regulations to consistently pile ...
Agriculture
County fairs are great opportunities to go meat shopping
Many of California’s county fairs host livestock exhibits giving youth exhibitors an opportunity to sell their livestock during a live auction. Money from the sale of livestock is often saved in college funds, spent on first-car purchases, or funneled into the following years’ project – teaching youth real world money ...
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Cities should forget sport-subsidy hype and focus on basics
Cities should forget sport-subsidy hype and focus on basics By D. Dowd Muska | August 8, 2025 Three years to go. The opening ceremony for the Games of the XXXIV Olympiad is scheduled for July 14, 2028. And the men and women of the organizing committee are working feverishly ...
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Despite ‘pro-housing’ programs, California’s crisis getting worse
Cities including Spokane, Tulsa and Memphis support pre-approved designs to streamline small-scale builds, similar to what California has sought to promote with its Pro-housing Designation Program (PDP). But many question why California’s land entitlement process—getting the zoning, use and building design approval from local governments to comply with state mandates—often ...
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The Gordon Chang Report–China is Making the World Food-Insecure
READ THE PDF China Is Making the World Food-Insecure Of all the countries in the world, only one produces all the food it needs: South America’s Guyana.[1] Does food self-sufficiency matter anymore? In a peaceful and stable period, perhaps not, because the trade in foodstuffs this century led to rising ...
NEW BOOK EXCERPT: ‘Protecting Cities from Wildfires’
NEW BOOK EXCERPT: ‘PROTECTING CITIES FROM WILDFIRES’ Rethinking land use, housing and rebuilding regulations by Steven Greenhut | August 15, 2025 This is an excerpt from Greenhut’s new Free Cities Center booklet, “Protecting Cities from Wildfires: Improving California’s Land-Use, Water and Brush-Clearance Strategies.” After the Los Angeles wildfires began their ...
Pulling mRNA Research Funding Undermines Future Innovations
Pulling mRNA Research Funding Undermines Future Innovations by Wayne Winegarden | August 15, 2025 The U.S. is a global leader in the innovative pharmaceutical industry, in part, because the public and private sectors effectively fulfill their complimentary roles. The federal government funds basic research that expands our knowledge base; the ...
Compassion, meat eating can co-exist
Our conversation came back to me when I received an email from an animal rights activist. During the email exchange I wrote, “Please do not misunderstand me, as a former 4-H’er, a beef cattle owner and raiser, a researcher, and agriculture advocate, I understand your concerns, but I do not ...
SpaceX Vs. California – Again
It took Elon Musk’s rocket company about a week to challenge the commission in court, arguing in its October filing that it was “egregiously and unlawfully overreaching its authority.” “First, the commission has engaged in naked political discrimination against” SpaceX, reads the complaint, and, second, the agency “is trying to ...
Read the latest from PRI's Free Cities Center
Urbanists See Portents of Doom: Will floods, fire or earthquakes wipe out Sacramento?
When Gov. Leland Stanford was inaugurated on Jan. 10, 1862, he didn’t walk to the state Capitol, nor did he take a carriage. Instead, he got into a small boat and rowed from the governor’s mansion to the Capitol steps. The Great Flood of 1862 is something that anyone interested ...
The Most-Regulated State In The Union
When the Mercatus Center last compiled its Snapshots of State Regulations, California was far ahead, or actually far behind, the next closest state, burdening residents with a combined 420,000 regulations, compared with about 300,000 for New York. Idaho, the least regulated state, imposed around 31,000 on residents. “Jurisdictions that allow regulations to consistently pile ...
County fairs are great opportunities to go meat shopping
Many of California’s county fairs host livestock exhibits giving youth exhibitors an opportunity to sell their livestock during a live auction. Money from the sale of livestock is often saved in college funds, spent on first-car purchases, or funneled into the following years’ project – teaching youth real world money ...
Cities should forget sport-subsidy hype and focus on basics
Cities should forget sport-subsidy hype and focus on basics By D. Dowd Muska | August 8, 2025 Three years to go. The opening ceremony for the Games of the XXXIV Olympiad is scheduled for July 14, 2028. And the men and women of the organizing committee are working feverishly ...
Despite ‘pro-housing’ programs, California’s crisis getting worse
Cities including Spokane, Tulsa and Memphis support pre-approved designs to streamline small-scale builds, similar to what California has sought to promote with its Pro-housing Designation Program (PDP). But many question why California’s land entitlement process—getting the zoning, use and building design approval from local governments to comply with state mandates—often ...
The Gordon Chang Report–China is Making the World Food-Insecure
READ THE PDF China Is Making the World Food-Insecure Of all the countries in the world, only one produces all the food it needs: South America’s Guyana.[1] Does food self-sufficiency matter anymore? In a peaceful and stable period, perhaps not, because the trade in foodstuffs this century led to rising ...
