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Steve Smith Discusses Rising Crime and the Sacramento Shootings on PRI Next Round
PRI Next Round | April 18, 2022
Steve Smith
PRI Next Round's guest this week was PRI Senior Fellow Steve Smith. An expert in public safety policy, he was a former police officer and a former professor of criminal justice. Steve gives his thoughts on the Sacramento shooting as well rising crime in the state, the role of progressive prosecutors, and soft-on-crime policies.
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Bernie Sanders's Healthcare Goals Are Deadly For Patients
Townhall | Sally Pipes
April 21, 2022
Next month, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., will be back grandstanding at yet another hearing on “Medicare For All.” He’s promised to introduce a bill establishing a single-payer healthcare system “soon.” It would be the third time he’s done so since 2017.
Sanders’s vision of a government takeover of the country’s health insurance system is too much for even Democrats to support. Working people don’t want his one-size-fits-all prescription for American health care.
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To Help The Earth Let's Acknowledge The Limits Of Alternative Energy
Forbes | Wayne Winegarden
April 20, 2022
Earth Day is this week. A day set aside to celebrate ([link removed]) “the planet’s clean natural resources”, which is now synonymous with alleviating the costs associated with global climate change. Since alternative technologies are viewed as clean resources that will solve the problem of global climate change, the website earthday.org ([link removed].) claims that,
consumer demand for renewable energy sources is one of the most immediate actions you can take to lower your carbon footprint….Wouldn’t you be happier knowing that when you flip the light switch at home that electricity is flowing from a solar panel or wind turbine?
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Chris Carr Highlighted For His New Study "The CEQA Gauntlet" and Quoted in Bloomberg
Bloomberg | Chris Carr
April 20, 2022
Chris Carr’s new study “The CEQA Gauntlet” was featured and quoted in the Bloomberg piece “Berkeley Housing Battle Revives Debate Over Environmental Law”. Carr discusses the problems CEQA poses today with Bloomberg.
“You can be sure the authors of CEQA didn’t think about the Boschian hellscape we have today,” said Carr. “But each year, there are new statutory sections or case law, which build up the body of the CEQA regime. It’s proliferated so much that California’s leading policy priorities are frustrated, complicated, slowed and sometimes entirely thwarted by CEQA. We’re in a situation where California is at war with itself.”
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More Talk Less Action as Dry, Hot Summer Approaches
Right by the Bay | Tim Anaya
April 20, 2022
On Tuesday, Gov. Newsom travelled to Butte County where, according to a press release ([link removed]) from his office, he discussed “impacts of the climate driven drought, including on hydropower production by state facilities, and the state’s response.”
It’s part of the Governor’s campaign to promote his so-called “Save Our Water” ([link removed]) campaign, including a $5.2 billion, three-year campaign to “support the immediate drought response” and “build water resilience statewide.”
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Earth Day Has Become Polluted by Political Correctness and Ignorance
Issues & Insights | Henry Miller
April 19, 2022
The first Earth Day celebration, a nationwide environmental teach-in, held in 1970, was the brainchild of Democratic Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, who was interested in environmental issues. He recruited Rep. Pete McCloskey, a conservation-minded liberal Republican congressman, to serve as his co-chair, and they enlisted Denis Hayes, a young activist, to be the national coordinator.
In the spirit of the time, it was a touchy-feely, consciousness-raising, New Age experience, and most activities were organized at the grassroots level.
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How California Agriculture Can Survive Another Year of Drought, State Water Cutbacks
Right by the Bay | Pam Lewison
April 19, 2022
Water management and drought preparedness should be cornerstones of every state in the West. Among the states suffering the most from lack of water is California.
Water has shown itself to be a finite resource in many states, particularly those reliant upon surface snowpack sources from mountain ranges in the Western United States and aquifers that have seen little rainfall to recharge them. California has faced three years of drought conditions ([link removed]) and it appears there will be no relief on its way this year.
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