Watch PRI’s interview with Rick Caruso – one year after the wildfires
In this special Free Cities Center interview, Rick Caruso – founder and executive chairman of Caruso, longtime civic and philanthropic leader in Los Angeles and former mayor candidate – discusses LA’s rebuilding efforts one year after the wildfires. He shares ...
California needs more oversight, not another homeless agency
California needs more oversight, not another homeless agency By Sarah Downey | March 20, 2026 As California continues to struggle with homelessness, state leaders are rebranding the bureaucracy by rolling out a different agency with many of the same players ...
Building more is the key to affordability
California policymakers are obsessed with boosting “affordable housing,” which makes sense when housing in the state is out of reach to a large portion of its residents. They’re trying to solve the problem from the wrong end, though. The supply ...
California cities struggling to implement latest housing law
California cities struggling to implement latest housing law By John Seiler | March 19, 2026 Since 2017, the California Legislature has passed and governors Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom have signed about 215 housing-related bills. There’s no master list. But ...
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The Funston Case – The Dangerous Myth of the “Elderly Inmate”
In California, a life sentence rarely means life. With limited exceptions — death penalty cases, life without parole (LWOP) sentences, and certain murder convictions — ...
Why progressives’ single-payer health care dream would bankrupt California
California progressives’ single-payer health care fever dream is back. This time, the cost could hit half a trillion dollars a year. Single-payer means the government ...
An anti-science FDA is a threat to our health and prosperity
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration supposedly “implements gold standard science.” Yet the agency appears to relish obstructing scientific progress. Earlier this month, Vinay Prasad, ...
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