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What We’re Watching – A Royal Shocker
Tim Anaya – The Royal Shocker That Happened While Everyone Was Focused on Foreign Affairs In public relations 101, there’s the old adage of the Friday news dump – drop major news or do a document dump either during some other major event or on a Friday afternoon at 4 ...
CANCELLED: The 2020 Election and Barriers to Economic Growth and Entrepreneurship
Sorry this event has been cancelled. Dr. Wayne Winegarden, PRI’s Senior Fellow in Business and Economics and the Director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, will share challenges and solutions from his new study on entrepreneurship “Entrepreneurship as a Pathway to the American Dream.” Many observers have ...
Business & Economics
Newsom already has the power to remedy the power outages
Amid an unprecedented – and excruciating – recent number of intentional power outages to mitigate the risk of fires during California’s dry, windy conditions, Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed a number of policy measures, ranging from demands for $100 rebates to PG&E customers to threatened fines to appointing an energy ...
Blackouts
On Blackouts, Gavin Newsom Should Beware the Legacy of Gray Davis
Californians are rightfully outraged over what my colleague Kerry Jackson has termed, “The Great Blackouts of 2019.” Naturally, whenever there is a crisis or a scandal in state government like the blackouts and the PG&E bailout and bankruptcy, voters look to blame someone for the problem, typically the Governor. Indeed, ...
Climate Change
Siskind v. Siskind – Father and Daughter Face-Off on the Issues
Sarah Rose Siskind, a New York writer and aspiring comedienne and Larry Siskind, Bay Area attorney, father and daughter, go head to head on the issues of the day: climate change, socialism, the presidential race, technology and the changing culture of work, the generational divide, and the meaning of the ...
Agriculture
Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’ is poking at corporate activists
Many of America’s largest public corporations recently made a commitment in principle to their “stakeholders,” which included working with their communities and “protect[ing] the environment by embracing sustainable practices.” Leaders of 181 of the 193 member companies of the prominent Business Roundtable promised to “deliver value.” It gave us a sense of ...
California
Classroom Indoctrination Is Causing A Rise In Homeschooling
Watching leftist politicians such as New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio goading students to go on “strike” to protest climate change underscored for many American parents the increasing political indoctrination going on in the nation’s public schools, which will likely cause many of them to more seriously consider taking ...
Climate Change
The Rush To Renewable Energy Defies Science, Economics, And Common Sense
Whether it’s the Green New Deal, in which climate change abatement is only one of several radical proposals, or the general brainwashing of the younger generations about the impending end of the world, the absence of rational analysis and the willful ignorance of facts is counterproductive. Rather than promoting a ...
Blog
Teacher Unions Veer Far Left
Recently, The Washington Times published an op-ed that I authored where I describe how the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, to use the newspaper’s headline, “Careen Left.” But the reality is that the political landscape and momentum of teacher unions across the country is actually trending ...
Charter Schools
Read Lance Izumi’s op-ed in the Washington Times: When national teacher unions careen left
As the national teacher unions careen farther and farther left, they now brazenly proclaim politics and power as their goals, while openly dismissing quality education as their priority. Education analyst and retired Los Angeles teacher Larry Sand observed that at the recent annual meeting of the National Education Association, the country’s ...
What We’re Watching – A Royal Shocker
Tim Anaya – The Royal Shocker That Happened While Everyone Was Focused on Foreign Affairs In public relations 101, there’s the old adage of the Friday news dump – drop major news or do a document dump either during some other major event or on a Friday afternoon at 4 ...
CANCELLED: The 2020 Election and Barriers to Economic Growth and Entrepreneurship
Sorry this event has been cancelled. Dr. Wayne Winegarden, PRI’s Senior Fellow in Business and Economics and the Director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, will share challenges and solutions from his new study on entrepreneurship “Entrepreneurship as a Pathway to the American Dream.” Many observers have ...
Newsom already has the power to remedy the power outages
Amid an unprecedented – and excruciating – recent number of intentional power outages to mitigate the risk of fires during California’s dry, windy conditions, Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed a number of policy measures, ranging from demands for $100 rebates to PG&E customers to threatened fines to appointing an energy ...
On Blackouts, Gavin Newsom Should Beware the Legacy of Gray Davis
Californians are rightfully outraged over what my colleague Kerry Jackson has termed, “The Great Blackouts of 2019.” Naturally, whenever there is a crisis or a scandal in state government like the blackouts and the PG&E bailout and bankruptcy, voters look to blame someone for the problem, typically the Governor. Indeed, ...
Siskind v. Siskind – Father and Daughter Face-Off on the Issues
Sarah Rose Siskind, a New York writer and aspiring comedienne and Larry Siskind, Bay Area attorney, father and daughter, go head to head on the issues of the day: climate change, socialism, the presidential race, technology and the changing culture of work, the generational divide, and the meaning of the ...
Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’ is poking at corporate activists
Many of America’s largest public corporations recently made a commitment in principle to their “stakeholders,” which included working with their communities and “protect[ing] the environment by embracing sustainable practices.” Leaders of 181 of the 193 member companies of the prominent Business Roundtable promised to “deliver value.” It gave us a sense of ...
Classroom Indoctrination Is Causing A Rise In Homeschooling
Watching leftist politicians such as New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio goading students to go on “strike” to protest climate change underscored for many American parents the increasing political indoctrination going on in the nation’s public schools, which will likely cause many of them to more seriously consider taking ...
The Rush To Renewable Energy Defies Science, Economics, And Common Sense
Whether it’s the Green New Deal, in which climate change abatement is only one of several radical proposals, or the general brainwashing of the younger generations about the impending end of the world, the absence of rational analysis and the willful ignorance of facts is counterproductive. Rather than promoting a ...
Teacher Unions Veer Far Left
Recently, The Washington Times published an op-ed that I authored where I describe how the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, to use the newspaper’s headline, “Careen Left.” But the reality is that the political landscape and momentum of teacher unions across the country is actually trending ...
Read Lance Izumi’s op-ed in the Washington Times: When national teacher unions careen left
As the national teacher unions careen farther and farther left, they now brazenly proclaim politics and power as their goals, while openly dismissing quality education as their priority. Education analyst and retired Los Angeles teacher Larry Sand observed that at the recent annual meeting of the National Education Association, the country’s ...
