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Desert Push for New Solar Farm Threatens Worker Health, Local Water Supply
In California’s never-ending effort to retain its self-awarded climate MVP trophy, thousands of acres near Desert Center, east of Palm Springs in Riverside County, will be “cultivated” to accommodate a solar farm. The Intersect Power project, centered on a 390-megawatt solar array with an adjacent battery storage site, was unanimously ...
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Market innovations can make our cities energy independent
Market innovations can make our cities energy independent By Edward Ring | November 15, 2024 A revolution in urban planning is well under way, driven by advances in wastewater recycling and runoff harvesting, along with waste-to-energy technologies and indoor agriculture. But perhaps the biggest and most unheralded breakthrough is the ...
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Beyond rate cuts: Revived housing requires zoning reform
Recent reports by USC researchers and market analysts suggest that California’s already pricey housing stock requires far more than an interest rate cut to balance out, meaning an onrush of moderately priced units aren’t likely in the near term. But there has been further legislation from Sacramento this past session ...
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Learn why even Bay Area progressives voted to stop rising crime
Progressives Reject Progressivism
If Democratic party registration is any indication of the popularity of the progressive agenda – which Gov. Gavin Newsom calls “the California way” – then San Francisco and Alameda counties are the most progressive in California. Yet, in the last two years amidst rising crime, exploding overdose deaths, and dying ...
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Spending Watch
While National Economic Performance Has Supported State Revenue Growth, Greater Spending Restraint Is Still Required
While National Economic Performance Has Supported State Revenue Growth, Greater Spending Restraint Is Still Required Wayne Winegarden and Nikhil Agarwal November 2024 Three months into the 2024-25 fiscal year, state revenues are outperforming lowered expectations. Should these trends continue, the FY2025-26 budget process may avoid the crushing deficit problem that ...
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A Trailblazer Explains What it Means to Be a Veteran
I sat next to her at the luncheon at which we were both speaking. An unassuming person, one would never know that Cathy was a pioneer in our armed forces. But then she got up to speak. As I listened to her I was struck by her words. In her ...
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Learn about case that could threaten medical innovation
PRI Files Amicus Brief in Key State Supreme Court Case That Could Upend Future Medical Innovation in California
In the case, the plaintiffs filed cases against the Gilead pharmaceutical company over the company’s failure to bring an alternative medication used to treat AIDS, hepatitis, and other diseases to the marketplace called TAF under a speedier timeline, even though TAF and the originally developed medicine called TDF are both ...
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Despite naysayers, new cities provide boundless possibilities
SACRAMENTO – The average age of an owner-occupied house in California is 45 years, which is a reminder that your home was probably built relatively recently. I was an adult when my “historic” midcentury ranch was first sold (for around $50,000 including the lot). It was part of a futuristic neighborhood of ...
Agriculture
Senate panel forgets farmers in discussion about agriculture
This oversight was never clearer than in a recent panel hosted by U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin), named American Health and Nutrition: A Second Opinion. According to a description of the panel, the discussion was meant to provide “a foundational and historical understanding of the changes that have occurred over ...
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Ranked Choice Voting does nothing to improve local elections
Ranked Choice Voting does nothing to improve local elections By Matthew Fleming | November 5, 2024 A recent social media post by a San Francisco mayoral candidate announcing his political strategy for the city’s ranked-choice voting inadvertently highlights why ranked-choice voting is silly. Approved by San Francisco voters in 2002, RCV ...
Desert Push for New Solar Farm Threatens Worker Health, Local Water Supply
In California’s never-ending effort to retain its self-awarded climate MVP trophy, thousands of acres near Desert Center, east of Palm Springs in Riverside County, will be “cultivated” to accommodate a solar farm. The Intersect Power project, centered on a 390-megawatt solar array with an adjacent battery storage site, was unanimously ...
Market innovations can make our cities energy independent
Market innovations can make our cities energy independent By Edward Ring | November 15, 2024 A revolution in urban planning is well under way, driven by advances in wastewater recycling and runoff harvesting, along with waste-to-energy technologies and indoor agriculture. But perhaps the biggest and most unheralded breakthrough is the ...
Beyond rate cuts: Revived housing requires zoning reform
Recent reports by USC researchers and market analysts suggest that California’s already pricey housing stock requires far more than an interest rate cut to balance out, meaning an onrush of moderately priced units aren’t likely in the near term. But there has been further legislation from Sacramento this past session ...
Learn why even Bay Area progressives voted to stop rising crime
Progressives Reject Progressivism
If Democratic party registration is any indication of the popularity of the progressive agenda – which Gov. Gavin Newsom calls “the California way” – then San Francisco and Alameda counties are the most progressive in California. Yet, in the last two years amidst rising crime, exploding overdose deaths, and dying ...
Spending Watch
While National Economic Performance Has Supported State Revenue Growth, Greater Spending Restraint Is Still Required
While National Economic Performance Has Supported State Revenue Growth, Greater Spending Restraint Is Still Required Wayne Winegarden and Nikhil Agarwal November 2024 Three months into the 2024-25 fiscal year, state revenues are outperforming lowered expectations. Should these trends continue, the FY2025-26 budget process may avoid the crushing deficit problem that ...
A Trailblazer Explains What it Means to Be a Veteran
I sat next to her at the luncheon at which we were both speaking. An unassuming person, one would never know that Cathy was a pioneer in our armed forces. But then she got up to speak. As I listened to her I was struck by her words. In her ...
Learn about case that could threaten medical innovation
PRI Files Amicus Brief in Key State Supreme Court Case That Could Upend Future Medical Innovation in California
In the case, the plaintiffs filed cases against the Gilead pharmaceutical company over the company’s failure to bring an alternative medication used to treat AIDS, hepatitis, and other diseases to the marketplace called TAF under a speedier timeline, even though TAF and the originally developed medicine called TDF are both ...
Despite naysayers, new cities provide boundless possibilities
SACRAMENTO – The average age of an owner-occupied house in California is 45 years, which is a reminder that your home was probably built relatively recently. I was an adult when my “historic” midcentury ranch was first sold (for around $50,000 including the lot). It was part of a futuristic neighborhood of ...
Senate panel forgets farmers in discussion about agriculture
This oversight was never clearer than in a recent panel hosted by U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin), named American Health and Nutrition: A Second Opinion. According to a description of the panel, the discussion was meant to provide “a foundational and historical understanding of the changes that have occurred over ...
Ranked Choice Voting does nothing to improve local elections
Ranked Choice Voting does nothing to improve local elections By Matthew Fleming | November 5, 2024 A recent social media post by a San Francisco mayoral candidate announcing his political strategy for the city’s ranked-choice voting inadvertently highlights why ranked-choice voting is silly. Approved by San Francisco voters in 2002, RCV ...
