Watch: How Art Can Improve Urban Quality of Life

Free Cities Center | Roberta Ahmanson
February 1, 2023

Watch as Steven Greenhut of PRI’s Free Cities Center discusses how art can improve the quality of life in urban centers, help address social ills, and inspire people to turn their lives around and forge new, vibrant communities with patron of the arts, journalist and writer Roberta Ahmanson of Fieldstead and Company.


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Shocking! Why California Policymakers Are So Often Caught by Surprise
 

GV Wire | Kerry Jackson
January 31, 2023

California is always in the national news and too often for not-so-good reasons. A couple of recent events has left much of the rest of the country wondering how this ever-swaggering state is continually caught off guard. There’s really no mystery here. The answer is obvious.

When it was announced earlier this month by Gov. Gavin Newsom that California is facing a budget deficit, many wondered: Why didn’t policymakers see that coming? How could they have been caught by surprise?


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Pork producers await the SCOTUS decision on Prop 12
 

Right by the Bay | Pam Lewison
January 30, 2023

The law, approved by California voters back in 2018, would require pork producers to give hogs in commercial settings 24-square-feet of housing space in which they would not come in contact with another pig. It also bans gestation crates and requires any pork coming into the state to follow the same housing rules, regardless of origin. Both the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) and the American Farm Bureau Federation have appealed their original lawsuit to Supreme Court of the U.S. (SCOTUS), challenging the law as unconstitutional.


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State nowhere near meeting unrealistic energy goals, and that's a good thing
 

The Bakersfield Californian | Kerry Jackson
January 29, 2023

California is barreling toward its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions target. Will it make it? The Legislative Analyst’s Office doesn’t seem to think so..


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