Anne Marie Schubert – The Rising Crime in California
PRI's Next Round Podcast
June 7, 2021
In this podcast our guest is Anne Marie Schubert, District Attorney for Sacramento County. Ms. Schubert along with 44 DAs are suing Gov. Newsom for his policy to allow 76,000 inmates – including many who committed violent crimes – to attain early release with good behavior credits. We also discuss the state’s growing soft-on-crime approach and the rise in crime in major cities across California
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Progress in California Road Repairs Lagging Despite Gas Tax Hike
Times of San Diego | Kerry Jackson
June 9, 2021
According to the Times, Sacramento has allocated about $16 billion from 2017’s Senate Bill 1 for roads and highways. Yet “state officials say that much more money is needed to address shortcomings in the transportation system. Caltrans estimates it will need $122.9 billion over 10 years ‘to maintain the existing assets’ due in part to increasing costs and the age of the infrastructure.”
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California Has "Been There, Done That"
The Los Angeles Times recently called California “the de-facto policy think tank of the Biden-Harris Administration.” PRI has a message for the rest of the country - California has "been there, done that". The real-life results betray that California has become one of the least appealing places to raise a family, start a business, or call home.
Visit www.pacificresearch.org/beentheredonethat to learn more
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Can Legislators Tame California’s Infamously High Impact Fees?
PRI Right By the Bay Blog | M. Nolan Gray
June 8, 2021
This isn’t the first time the state has tried to tackle impact fees. As recently as 2020, state legislators tried–and failed—to offer needed impact fee exemptions for income-restricted housing and set a cap on impact fees. So the passage of AB 602 can hardly be taken for granted. But so far, signs are encouraging: the bill enjoyed unanimous, bipartisan support in the Assembly and is now off to the Senate.
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Book Review: A Dubious Expediency: How Race Preferences Damage Higher Education
PRI's Right By the Bay Blog | Rowena Itchon
June 10, 2021
I was intrigued by the book title. Not being a lawyer, I did not know that it came from the majority opinion in the original California Supreme Court case. Justice Stanley Mosk, in a statement that now seems prescient, wrote: “To uphold [the University of California’s argument for race preferential admissions] would call for the sacrifice of principle for the sake of dubious expediency and would represent a retreat in the struggle to assure that each man and woman shall be judged on the basis of individual merit alone.” The essays in the book document this retreat.
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