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Wayne Winegarden and Kerry Jackson Featured in the Sacramento Business Journal for Project Homekey Study
Sacramento Business Journal | Wayne Winegarden & Kerry Jackson
August 4, 2022
The state of California touted Project Homekey as a creative way to address the state’s housing shortage, and more directly, its growing population of people without housing.
But a free-market advocacy group has published a report suggesting the concept of buying hotels to convert them into housing was an expensive failure, with Sacramento specifically cited as an example.
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California Continues to Push Renewables Despite Energy Storage Problem
Right by the Bay | Kerry Jackson
August 4, 2022
Gov. Gavin Newsom deserves credit for recognizing that California’s irrational leap toward a fully renewable electricity grid by 2045 was moving far too fast. At the same time, he deserves criticism for continuing to aggressively push the transition.
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State Should Prioritize Tax and Regulatory Reform to Lure Back Film, TV Production
Right by the Bay | Tim Anaya
August 8, 2022
Gov. Newsom made waves once again with another political hit on red state governors. This time film and TV productions that moved to red states that reject Newsom’s blue state agenda were targeted.
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The Attack on California Childcare Programs Due to Transitional Kindergarten Could Have Been Avoided
Right by the Bay | Emily Humpal
August 3, 2022
Free universal transitional kindergarten for 4-year-olds was passed by the California State Legislature and signed into law by Governor Newsom last year in 2021. What seemed to be a win for working families who struggle to find childcare for their pre-kindergarten children, was a detriment to childcare facilities across the state – and we are now seeing the impact.
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California: Home of the Unfree
Right by the Bay | Rowena Itchon
August 9, 2022
“Join us in California where we still believe in freedom,” urged Gov. Newsom ([link removed]) in a political ad to Floridians — never mind that he barred California state government workers from ever traveling to the Sunshine State. And while freedom may be just another word for nothing left to lose said the great Janis Joplin, when applying Newsom’s baffling notion of freedom, the strange result is that the more we’re free, the more we lose.
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