When Sacramento Big Spenders Suddenly Become Budget Hawks
Right by the Bay | Tim Anaya
September 17, 2021
But as Jason [Sisney] knows, $276 million is really a drop in the bucket. In the past 18 months alone, nonpartisan government watchdogs and media voices have uncovered billions in wasteful, inappropriate and fraudulent state spending – money that could really be put to good use helping people.
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Buy the new PRI book Saving California
Saving California is focused on policy changes that could help restore some of California’s lost luster – regardless of what politician runs our massive state government apparatus. The authors are all current or former Californians, people with deep expertise in their respective policy areas.
Learn more at prisavingcalifornia.org
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Kerry Jackson in City Journal, "The Ashen State"
City Journal | Kerry Jackson
September 16, 2021
Green myopia has also blocked efforts to remove the fuel that drives wildfires. For decades environmental activists, wielding enormous political clout in Sacramento, have obstructed forest thinning, brush removal, and controlled burns whenever possible. These are not outlandish ideas driven by corporate greed but proven methods for containing wildfires.
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How NIMBYs Almost Killed Disneyland
Right By the Bay | M. Nolan Gray
September 13, 2021
Our story begins in the 1930s—as Walt Disney tells it—with Disney taking his daughters to the Griffith Park merry-go-round. The precocious young Disney soon began to conceive of a park that adults and parents might enjoy in equal measure, without all the shabbiness typically associated with American theme parks and carnivals of the time. The idea would linger in Disney’s mind for nearly two decades as the studio he built transformed American animation.
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Listen to PRI's Next Round Podcast
Lance Izumi - The Homeschool Boom
Our guest this week on PRI’s Next Round podcast is Lance Izumi, senior director of education. Lance discusses his upcoming book The Homeschool Boom: Pandemic, Policies, and Possibilities. There’s been a homeschooling boom during the pandemic, as parents have sought ways to improve their children’s education during the school lockdowns. Lance explains why homeschooling is becoming more popular, discusses many of its myths, and profiles a diverse group of families who are homeschooling their children.
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How CEQA II Could Be a Hollywood Sequel That Everyone Likes
Right by the Bay | Kerry Jackson
September 14, 2021
For instance, California Superior Court Judge Brad Seligman has told the University of California, Berkeley that it cannot “increase student enrollment in academic year 2022-2023 or later above the level of student enrollment at UC Berkeley in academic year 2020-2021,” about 42,000, because “further increases in student enrollment above the current enrollment level at UC Berkeley could result in an adverse change or alteration to the physical environment.”
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AB 701 Guarantees Workers Restroom Breaks . . . and Lawsuits
Right By the Bay | Rowena Itchon
September 16, 2021
AB 701 lumps the entire warehousing industry together and uses a “chainsaw” rather than a “scalpel” to address policy issues, argues Paul Granillo, president and CEO of the Inland Empire Economic Partnership. The bill would inevitably spawn frivolous lawsuits and more bureaucratic red tape.
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