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The Latest Dumb Idea From San Francisco - Banning Plastic Water Bottles At the Airport
Right By the Bay Blog | Tim Anaya
August 7, 2019
Apparently, San Francisco’s reputation as being the fourth most expensive city ([link removed]) in America, having the world’s fifth worst traffic congestion ([link removed]) , and its out-of-control homeless problem were not enough. It now wants to start annoying travelers the moment they land in San Francisco.
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Listen to PRI's "Next Round" Podcast
Tim Snowball - The Ongoing Legal Fight for Worker Freedom Post Janus
August 5, 2019
Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Tim Snowball joins us to discuss the policy roadblocks unions and their allies have put up in California and other states following the Janus decision, and their ongoing legal efforts to overcome these hurdles...
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Sally C. Pipes in Real Clear Health: Louisiana Tries Hard, But Federal Obstacles Cause Hepatitis C Plan To Fall Short
Real Clear Health | Sally C. Pipes
August 7, 2019
A state and a biopharmaceutical company agreed recently on a new way to pay for treating patients with Hepatitis C, the most deadly ([link removed]) infectious disease in America.
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Wayne Winegarden in the Colorado Springs Gazette: Colorado's Big Government Emissions Mandate
Colorado Springs Gazette | Wayne Winegarden
August 5, 2019
Colorado officials are painting a rosy picture of the impact on the economy and the environment from its low emission vehicle standards’ known as the Colorado Low Emission Automobile Regulation, or CLEAR.
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PRI in the Orange County Register: Post - Janus, How Unions Keep Teachers Trapped
The Orange County Register | Lance Izumi and Rebecca Friedrichs
August 5, 2019
After more than a year of legal wrangling, OAL signed off on a proposed rule exempting coffee from Proposition 65, a decades-old voter-approved measure that requires warning labels on products that contain chemicals the state has deemed potentially carcinogenic. So that means cancer warning labels and the universally ignored coffee shop warnings can be removed at long last.
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Henry Miller in the L.A. Times: A smarter way to curb drug prices through imports
The Los Angeles Times | Henry I. Miller, M.S., M.D. and John J. Cohrssen
August 5, 2019
The Trump administration last week announced steps that could lead to the importation of prescription drugs from Canada, where prices are lower. It is a goal supported by President Trump, but long opposed by many Republicans . . .
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UPCOMING EVENTS
San Francisco Luncheon and Discussion with National Review's Andrew C. McCarthy
Andrew McCarthy, senior fellow at National Review Institute and a contributing editor at National Review, will speak about the Mueller investigation and his forthcoming book, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.
Wednesday, August 14
Noon
City Club of San Francisco
155 Sansome Street, Grand Salon, 9th Floor
San Francisco
$30 for Sir Antony Fisher Freedom Society members;
$60 for non-members
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Claremont Institute and Pacific Research Institute
present
A 40th Anniversary Celebration Cruise
*Spain, France, Monaco, and Italy*
Sail with us on a remarkable journey from the lush Spanish isle Mallorca to the cosmopolitan elegance of Monte Carlo to the historic and artistic treasures of Florence and Rome, with commentary and reflections on “the Future of America and the West: Liberty, Sovereignty, & Self Government.”
Featuring Michael Anton, Steven F. Hayward, Kishore Jayabalan, Charles Kesler, John O’Sullivan, Sally C. Pipes, Ryan P. Williams, and Andrew Roberts.
October 2 - 10, 2019
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