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Patriotism and Veterans Day
Right By the Bay Blog | Lance Izumi
November 11, 2020
Hershey, who is now 95 years old, told the Los Angeles Times that as the truck in which he was sitting crossed the bridge into the Freedom Village, “All I can remember is seeing a big U.S. flag flying in the breeze, and I just concentrated on that flag. That was such a wonderful sight, to see the Star-Spangled Banner fluttering in the breeze.”
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Steven Greenhut – Winning the Water Wars
Next Round Podcast
November 9, 2020
This week, PRI’s Evan Harris interviews R Street Institute’s Steven Greenhut about his newly-published PRI book, Winning the Water Wars. In the book, Greenhut makes the case that California can end its decades-long water wars and meet the state’s water needs by promoting abundance rather than managing scarcity.
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Is there actually a underinsurance crisis?
Medical Economics | Sally C. Pipes
November 12, 2020
The definition of underinsured also ignores the role that individual choice may play in purchasing coverage. This year, the average monthly premium for a mid-level silver individual plan for a 27-year-old was $374, according to research from eHealth. The average monthly premium for a less generous bronze plan was $278.
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How Election Results Will Impact Next Year’s State Budget
Right by the Bay Blog | Tim Anaya
November 10, 2020
Newsom was also counting on big wins for Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress to secure tens of billions of dollars from Washington to shore up California’s budget shortfall. As Right by the Bay covered earlier this summer, Newsom strongly endorsed Speaker Pelosi’s plan for a nearly $1 trillion bailout of state and local governments from Congress. But those plans went nowhere amid feuding between Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Trump.
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Californians Reject Racial Preferences
Right By the Bay Blog | Rowena Itchon
November 12, 2020
All total, supporters raised more than $20 million. Comparatively, the opposition had returning UC Regent Ward Connerly and $1.5 million total – the average cost of a house in San Francisco . But neither a global pandemic, mass rioting, nor a war chest of millions of dollars was able to thwart the American ideal of equality. Polls before the vote had already previewed Prop. 16’s demise.
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Prop. 18 Defeat Setback in National Push to Lower the Voting Age
Right By the Bay Blog | Evan Harris
November 11, 2020
Both Colorado and California rebuffed their state lawmakers. Despite their progressive public policy, the state results mirror historical efforts to lower the American voting age. The Twenty-Sixth Amendment is only a generation and a half old as 18-year-olds secured the right to the vote in 1971. Before the 1970s, the nearly 100-year-old Fourteenth Amendment locked the voting age at 21.
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Registration Open: PRI Webinar - "Policy Implications from the 2020 Election" ([link removed])
When: Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020 @ 11 AM PST
Who: Stephen Moore, The Heritage Foundation and Steven Hayward, Ph.D., PRI Fellow
About the Panelists
Stephen Moore
Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Institute for Economic Freedom @Heritage Foundation
Stephen Moore, who formerly wrote on the economy and public policy for The Wall Street Journal, is the Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Project for Economic Growth, at The Heritage Foundation.
Dr. Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, Pacific Research Institute
Dr. Steven Hayward writes frequently on a wide range of issues, including environmentalism, law, economics, and public policy, and has published dozens of articles in scholarly and popular journals. His work has appeared in National Review, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Reason, The Weekly Standard, Policy Review, and Chicago Tribune.
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