Chesa Boudin Invites Crime To San Francisco. So It’s No Surprise When Crime Rises
Right By the Bay Blog | Kerry Jackson
February 4, 2020
San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin is no crime fighter. He’s among the new breed of decline-to-prosecute prosecutors whose elections have been funded by George Soros (and his political machine). The uber-wealthy agitator is determined to use his multiple billions not to advance society but disrupt it. So far, it appears Soros’ efforts are paying off.
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Dr. Henry Miller – What You Need to Know about the Wuhan Coronavirus
PRI Next Round Podcast
February 4, 2020
Dr. Henry Miller, senior fellow with PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, joins us to discuss the Wuhan Coronavirus. We explore a wide variety of topics related to this public health crisis, including how people get the illness and how it is being treated and how the Chinese and U.S. governments are working to combat it.
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Gavin Newsom’s single-payer commission is doomed to fail
The Orange County Register | Sally C. Pipes
February 6, 2020
Consider California’s last flirtation with a single, government-run healthcare system – Senate Bill 562, which passed the state Senate in 2017. The Democratic-controlled State Assembly never even scheduled a vote on the measure, which lacked any revenue-raising mechanisms despite calling for roughly $400 billion in annual spending — more than double the state budget that year.
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A Former Speechwriter’s View of the 2020 State of the Union
Right By the Bay Blog | Tim Anaya
February 6, 2020
Anyone who has been a speechwriter watches a big public speech like this week’s State of the Union address or Gov. Newsom’s upcoming State of the State address on Feb. 19 with great interest – both for what is said and how the message is delivered through the power of words and the stagecraft.
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Coming to a March Primary Ballot Near You – More Ballot Box Budgeting
Right By the Bay Blog | Tim Anaya
February 3, 2020
Yet both approaches would continue the troubling trend of ballot box budgeting. When elected officials of both parties fail to make budget choices that reflect the priorities of taxpayers, citizens groups routinely use the initiative process to enshrine their preferred spending into law. The most famous is the landmark 1988 California ballot measure Proposition 98, which locks into the state budget spending for education of at least 40 percent of the General Fund annually.
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The 2020 California Vision:
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Join us for PRI’s second annual California “Ideas in Action” Policy Conference and hear policy experts, opinion leaders, and real life changemakers at informative panel discussions on:
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