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Reforms to Increase Affordability, Homebuilding Would Go Far to Alleviate State's Housing, Homeless Crises
Free Cities Center | January 31, 2024 | Steven Greenhut & Wayne Winegarden

Rolling back policies that have created unaffordable costs of living and made homebuilding prohibitively expensive can alleviate the state’s housing and homeless problems, finds the Free Cities Center's newest book.

“We can start to address what San Francisco Mayor London Breed calls ‘the twin troubles of housing affordability and homelessness’ by rolling back policies that make it inordinately difficult and expensive to build new housing,” Winegarden and Greenhut conclude.

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Bernie's Anti-Pharma Crusade Is Not In Patients' Interests
Forbes | Sally Pipes | January 30, 2024

Next week ([link removed]) , the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee will convene to hear testimony from the CEOs of Johnson & Johnson, Merck, and Bristol Myers Squibb on the prices of their drugs.

The executives agreed to testify after the committee’s chair, Vermont socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., threatened to issue subpoenas compelling them to appear. He’s relishing the chance to scold them. “Why does the United States pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs?” he asked in a letter ([link removed]) last fall to the CEOs.

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Calling Out The ESG Bait And Switch
Forbes | Wayne Winegarden | January 30, 2024

Activist investors claim they submit ESG proposals at annual meetings to improve corporate profitability. All too often, these proposals are attempts to hijack the corporate governance process to implement policies that Congress refuses to pass. A proposal ([link removed]) that ESG activist investors Arjuna Capital and Follow This are trying to resubmit on Exxon’s 2024 proxy statement exemplifies the scheme.

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PRI's 6th Annual "California Ideas in Action"
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Featuring Keynote Speaker
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Fox News Contributor
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Tuesday, February 13, 2024
12 PM

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1209 L Street
Sacramento, CA

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