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CARB's Gas Vote Will Spike Prices, Hurt Consumers
The Sacramento Bee | November 6, 2024 | Wayne Winegarden

The California Air Resources Board should go back to the drawing board rather than expand a policy that would raise gas prices without meaningfully lowering emissions.

At issue is an upcoming vote where this group of unelected bureaucrats will update California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard, effectively driving prices at the pump even higher. Worse yet, the California Air Resources Board is refusing to be transparent about the effect its decision will have on consumers.
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PRI Files Amicus Brief in Key Case that Could Upend Medical Innovation in CA
Right By the Bay | November 8, 2024

PRI has filed an amicus curiae brief in a case before the California Supreme Court that has the potential to devastate innovation in future life-saving medications.

The Gilead Tenofovir Cases surround questions of the liability of pharmaceutical companies over their decisions on drug development timelines.
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More Rent Control Won't Reverse San Francisco's Downward Spiral
Capital Ideas | Kerry Jackson | November 4, 2024

More than a half century ago, Swedish socialist economist Assar Lindbeck said – apparently not famously enough – “in many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city – except for bombing.” This aphorism is widely known among limited-government and free-market thinkers. But apparently it has never been read by San Francisco’s political class.

“​​More than a critical tenant protection, rent control is the foundation of stable communities across San Francisco,” says Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, who also happens to be a 2024 mayoral candidate.
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You are invited to attend the:

PRI and Claremont Institute Present a Festschrift Dinner Celebration for Charles R. Kesler

Thursday, December 12, 2024
6:15PM at The Pacific Club

4110 Macarthur Blvd.
Newport Beach, CA

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