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Colorado River 'plan' staves off federal interference, keeps water coming
Right by the Bay | May 31, 2023
Pam Lewison
Earlier this week, California, Arizona, and Nevada reached an agreement ([link removed]) to take less water from the Colorado River to address the decline of the river’s water level.
No matter what the details of the Colorado River agreement are, it is fair to say California’s farm community will be bracing for another round of water allocation cuts and the need to consider diversifying its crop selection to more drought-tolerant crops.
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State Public Plans No Blueprint for Affordable Healthcare
Newsmax | Sally Pipes
May 26, 2023
A divided Congress has prevented “Medicare for All” from taking off. So progressive activists have turned their attention to the states. Several have launched “public options,” health plans chartered by the state to compete against private insurers.
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Arizona and Colorado Report: Power-Hungry Cities Kill Pro-Housing Zoning-Reform Bills
Free Cities Center | Sal Rodriguez
June 2, 2023
Colorado and Arizona had a shot at passing substantive reform of development-stifling land-use regulations this year. But both efforts went down in the last few months thanks in large part to fierce opposition from city governments, which insist on preserving a flawed and restrictive status quo while offering harmful alternatives.
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PRI's Steve Smith Responds to Berkeley Hiring of Former SF Prosecutor Chesa Boudin in The Washington Free Beacon
Washington Free Beacon | Steve Smith
May 31, 2023
"UC Berkeley law school continues the progressive strategy of gaslighting Californians—as Boudin puts it—dismissing the public’s concerns as ‘fear mongering’ and ‘scare tactics,’" said Steve Smith, a senior fellow at the conservative Pacific Research Institute and author of a new study ([link removed]) on crime in California.
"The fears of California’s more than one million crime victims are real and justified, and they don’t want new prosecutors being trained to follow Boudin’s reckless path in communities across the state," Smith said.
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