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Erik Jaffe – On the Amy Coney Barrett Nomination Hearings
Net Round Podcast | PRI
October 19, 2020
PRI fellow in legal studies Erik Jaffe shares his thoughts on the Amy Coney Barrett nomination hearings, and what changes we might expect to see at the Supreme Court under a Justice Barrett. We discuss the controversy over “court packing” in the presidential campaign, some of the notable cases that the Court will consider this term, and whether it will be the Supreme Court who will ultimately decide the winner of the 2020 presidential election.
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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. Click here to register. ([link removed])
‘Right To Repair’ Legislation Compromises Medical Device Cybersecurity
Issues and Insights | Henry Miller, M.S., M.D.
October 20, 2020
In the early days of the pandemic, aftermarket repair advocates and the businesses they represent leveraged the public health emergency to create a perceived political opening when they accused OEMs of withholding the resources and information necessary to properly repair ventilators and other medical devices used to treat COVID-19 patients. These baseless accusations were an opportunistic attempt to advance a false narrative that patients were endangered by a shortage of qualified personnel to maintain and repair medical devices.
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Powering California With Wind – A utility’s perspective
Right By the Bay Blog | Wayne Winegarden
October 19, 2020
The fundamental flaw in California’s approach is that the stated intentions are unattainable given the current technological constraints. Take the problems with wind power. Wind is often touted as the workhorse of the future energy grid. But, there are reasons to be skeptical, as documented in a report from a utility in Washington State (Benton PUD).
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Prop 24: A Choice Between Expensive Ineffectiveness or a Prosperous Future
Right By the Bay Blog | Bartlett Cleland
October 21, 2020
The proposal needed review more than most as it was written by a San Francisco real estate developer with no expertise in privacy law or legislation. He demanded that the law be passed or he would move forward with the ballot proposal on which he spent millions of dollars to gather the necessary number of signatures. He effectively bought the law.
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Biden’s Health Care Proposal Only Cosmetically Different from Bernie’s, his Socialist-Democrat Friend
Texas Insider | Sally C. Pipes
October 20, 2020
Providers would likely respond by raising rates for the privately insured patients they still have. Insurers would in turn pass those rate hikes along in the form of higher premiums. More and more privately insured individuals would react by quitting their coverage and opting out of the public plan.
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California Wildfires Being Used by Greens to Promote Global Warming Agenda
Right By the Bay Blog | Kerry Jackson
October 20, 2020
As California sweats through the worst wildfires in state history, the rest of the country is relatively unharmed. According to the National Interagency Fire Center, the number of U.S. wildfires has remained constant since 1985. But somehow they’ve been growing in California since the mid-1980s. By 2020, half of the acreage burned in the country has been in this state though it makes up only 4.3% of the American landmass.
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