PRI's Focus on California
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Housing, Crime, Regulation Are Pushing Californians to Texas and Florida
Times of San Diego | Kerry Jackson
January 9, 2023
The number of ex-Californians keeps growing. The state lost 343,230 residents in 2021-22, says the Census Bureau. How could this happen? Isn’t California, as “The Ballad of Jed Clampett” insists, “the place you ought to be”?
Apparently a growing number of people no longer feel that way.
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Would You Like An Apple Pie With That? No Thanks, I Can't Afford It
Right by the Bay | Kerry Jackson
January 17, 2023
Less than two days before California’s Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act was to become law – on Jan. 1 – Sacramento Superior Court Judge Shelleyanne W.L. Chang placed a hold on the legislation, temporarily restraining the state ([link removed]) “from implementing, enforcing, or taking any other action to effectuate Assembly Bill 257.” The matter will be taken up again by the court on Jan. 13.
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Police Reform - San Jose Police - A Case Study
Right by the Bay | Steve Smith
January 12, 2023
The public is left with little but to believe that police misconduct is rampant. But grains of data carry a whispered truth not often reported in the media or discussed by politicians.
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California is Hardly 'Freedom State' Under Newsom
Right by the Bay | Kerry Jackson
January 10, 2023
Yes, it could be argued that at one time freedom was California’s essence. But no more. Lawmakers in Sacramento and in the big cities and in most of the counties on the water are far more interested in passing policies that cut hard into liberty, by both restricting choice and dropping a heavy burden on Californians, than they are expanding freedom.
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China Shakes the World: A Revolutionary Remaking of the International Order
Tuesday, January 31, 2023 @11:30am - 1:15pm
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Sacramento Conference
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1220 9th Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
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