Urban Ag Promotes Healthy Food, Thriving Gardens

Free Cities Center | Pacific Research Institute
March 27, 2023

Watch as Steven Greenhut of the Free Cities Center tours City Slicker Farms in Oakland, an urban agriculture program that promotes access to healthy food, thriving gardens and urban green spaces.



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How Much Could You Have to Pay in Reparations?
 

Right by the Bay | Rowena Itchon
March 31, 2023

The nine-member California Reparations Task Force originally proposed to give $360,000 to every African American California resident who is a descendent of a slave. A group of economists estimated the total cost to be $800 billion – 2 ½ times the size of the state budget. Not to be outdone, San Francisco’s reparations advisory committee has recommended that African American city residents who qualify receive a whopping lump sum of $5 million.


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Californians - Not Big Oil - Lose Under Newsom Excess Profits Tax
 

Right by the Bay | Wayne Winegarden
March 30, 2023

California’s drivers will pay the tax through higher prices at the pump. State residents will bear the incidence of the tax through the higher natural gas prices that they will now need to pay. And stockholders will bear the incidence of the tax through lower investment returns.


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California's Train Drain
 

Right by the Bay | Kerry Jackson
March 28, 2023

BART is headed toward a “fiscal cliff” because its once-heralded financial model is no longer working. With ridership in collapse, relying on fares for revenue is unsustainable.


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