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California On Fire: Newsom Releases A Hobgoblin
Right By the Bay Blog | Kerry Jackson
September 15, 2020

Newsom’s comment isn’t quite the perfect fit. The wildfires are real and the public is alarmed enough without a politician unspooling a diatribe about how dangerous and destructive they are. But it nevertheless applies. The governor is trying to scare the populace to forward a political, rather than practical, agenda. One, he wants the bureaucracy to speed up the state’s plunge into an all-renewables energy regime.

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DATE CHANGE – PRI Webinar: Winning the Water Wars

Tuesday, October 27, 2020 --- 11 AM PDT
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Join us on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at 11 AM for a conversation with veteran journalist Steven Greenhut on all things water conservation, storage, and infrastructure, as well as talk about his new PRI book, Winning the Water Wars.

Greenhut’s new book explores water infrastructure solutions beyond storage and dams and examines the importance of water pricing and trading, regulatory reforms, desalination, wastewater treatment, and more.

Good Bills this Session — Really.
Right By the Bay Blog | Rowena Itchon
September 17, 2020

When I mentioned to our editorial committee that I was going to work on a blog on good bills out of California’s recent legislative session, Kerry Jackson joked that I needed fewer than 100 words to cover that topic. After a few hours of hunting and a little help from friends, I did manage to turn up a few good ones:

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California Cheats Charter School Students of Funding Again
Fox & Hounds | Lance Izumi
September 17, 2020

The budget for the new fiscal year froze funding for schools at their 2019-20 level, preventing additional state funding for growing schools with increased numbers of students in the fall. This provision contradicted court decisions and state-education-funding reforms that had required funding to follow children to the regular public or public charter schools they planned to attend in the new school year.

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PRI Says Government Can’t Play Venture Capitalist in San Diego
The San Diego Union Tribune | Rob Nikolewski
September 7, 2020

“I have nothing against the technology,” Winegarden said. “There are better ways to support innovation, which is what the state should be doing, especially in light of the budget crisis we’re already facing, the homelessness crisis, the wildfires. It’s the state playing the role of venture capitalist.” . . .

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