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Alternative Technology Will Not Produce Budget Relief to Hardworking Families
Right by the Bay | March 16, 2022
Wayne Winegarden

The Biden Administration is touting electric vehicles (EV) and clean electricity technologies (e.g., solar and wind power) as the salve for today’s high oil and natural gas prices. Like modern-day Marie Antoinettes, their advice is distressingly oblivious to the reality facing most Americans.

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L.A. School District and Teachers Union Keep Mask Mandate Despite Science
Right by the Bay | Lance Izumi
March 15, 2022

It is St. Patrick’s week, but there is little Irish luck for school kids in Los Angeles who are still being forced to wear masks, despite strong science showing that mask mandates result in little benefit.

At the end of February, Governor Gavin Newsom finally relented and issued a statement saying ([link removed]) , “After March 11, in schools and child care facilities, masks won’t be required but will be strongly recommended.”

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Watch PRI's Wayne Winegarden Discuss Rent Control on NTD News
NTD News | Wayne Winegarden
March 15, 2022

Can enacting rent control measures have a positive approach to dramatically rising housing costs? Watch economist and PRI senior fellow Wayne Winegarden respond below.

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Biden's Drug Pricing Theatrics, Schemes Mislead

Newsmax | Sally Pipes
March 10, 2022

Making medicines more affordable is a worthy goal.

However, price controls of the sort Biden is calling for will reduce access to life-saving drugs — even as they ignore the real sources of high out-of-pocket costs for patients.

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