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2 weeks ago | 
pacificresearch.org | Wayne Winegarden |Kerry Jackson
Not all of California’s homelessness problems can be blamed on poor public policy. But much of it is due to statutes and ordinances that have incentivized vagrancy. This should not be in dispute and should inform policymaking today and in the future. But apparently some don’t see it that way. Newly elected Sen.
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3 weeks ago | 
pacificresearch.org | Kerry Jackson
The company “plans to anchor about two dozen 40-foot-long devices, called pods, to the seafloor several miles offshore and use them to take in saltwater and pump purified fresh water to shore in a pipeline,” the Times reports.
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4 weeks ago | 
pacificresearch.org | Kerry Jackson
San Diego voters tried to rein in the city’s runaway public employee pension obligations when they approved a 2012 measure that would change the system. Union bosses and the courts had other ideas, though, and the results were scrapped by the California Supreme Court. The ripples of that ruling have just hit the shore and they probably feel like a tidal wave to city officials and taxpayers.
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4 weeks ago | 
sandiegouniontribune.com | Kerry Jackson
San Diego voters tried to rein in the city’s runaway public employee pension obligations when they approved a 2012 measure that would change the system. Union bosses and the courts had other ideas, though, and the results were scrapped by the California Supreme Court. The ripples of that ruling have just hit the shore and they probably feel like a tidal wave to city officials and taxpayers. This month, San Diego’s pension board unanimously approved the city’s annual pension payment.
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4 weeks ago | 
pacificresearch.org | Kerry Jackson
In a March 11 letter, Senate Majority Leader Lena Gonzalez, a Long Beach Democrat, asked owner and Chairman Mark Walter “to end the Los Angeles Dodgers’ sponsorship deals with fossil fuel companies.” “Ending the sponsorship with Phillips 66,” which owns the 76 brand (formerly Union 76) that partners with the Dodgers, “would send the message that it’s time to end our embrace of polluting fossil fuels and work together towards a cleaner, greener future.” Gonzalez naturally recited all the usual...
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1 month ago | 
pacificresearch.org | Kerry Jackson
Wouldn’t it be nice if the government could make everyone richer simply by passing laws that increase our income? Unfortunately, our world doesn’t work that way. When government chooses winners, someone loses, and nothing illustrates this better than when lawmakers set wage floors, as they did with California’s $20 fast-food worker minimum wage. As the latest analysis shows, job opportunities have declined for fast-food workers. At the same time, dining options have been narrowed.
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1 month ago | 
ivpressonline.com | Kerry Jackson
Wouldn’t it be nice if the government could make everyone richer simply by passing laws that increase our income? Unfortunately, our world doesn’t work that way. When government chooses winners, someone loses, and nothing illustrates this better than when lawmakers set wage floors, as they did with California’s $20 fast-food worker minimum wage. As the latest analysis shows, job opportunities have declined for fast-food workers. At the same time, dining options have been narrowed.
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1 month ago | 
pacificresearch.org | Kerry Jackson
Public transportation in San Francisco has been slipping for some time. To keep it from barreling into the bay, officials are going after wallets, and they plan to cast a net that is so wide that even those who don’t use the systems will be pinched.
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1 month ago | 
issuesinsights.com | Kerry Jackson
Editor’s note: This has been excerpted with permission from the Pacific Research Institute. To read the entire report, click here. California has become the “Can’t Have State,” as in can’t have plastic bags, can’t have plastic straws and utensils, can’t have a new gasoline-powered car 10 years from now, can’t have a long of things that would make up a list too long to go into here. The next “can’t have,” if a bill reintroduced in Sacramento becomes law, are private firefighters.
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1 month ago | 
sierz.co.uk | Kerry Jackson |Les Blancs
Plays about the Windrush Generation are no longer a rarity, but it’s still unusual for revivals of black British classics to get the full resources of the National Theatre. Guyana-born playwright Michael Abbensetts, who died in 2016, is often mentioned in books about black British drama, but his plays are infrequently revived. So it’s great to have a chance to watch Alterations, his vibrant comedy of 1978, the year his BBC soap Empire Road was also broadcast.
