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The Biden Administration has just revived the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, which is another costly green mandate on the production of electricity in the U.S.  Buckeye Institute Vice President of Policy Rea Hederman Jr. joins us to discuss their new report showing how much more Californians and Ohioans could pay for electricity if the plan takes effect, and how it would subject the rest of the country to the type of green energy ma...

Our guest on this week’s podcast is Kevin Hassett, the 29th Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers under President Trump. Dr. Hassett was the speaker at a recent PRI dinner in Palo Alto. He is Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and the author of several books, including The Drift: Stopping America’s Slide to Socialism (Regnery Publishing, 2021).  He served as the Chair in Ame...

Our podcast guest this week is Sally Pipes, PRI president and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care. Sally discusses two health care bills that are wending their way through the legislature. Senate bill 770 is a new bill sponsored by Senator Scott Wiener – a more incremental approach to single-payer. The other bill, sponsored by Assemblyman Ash Kalra, is one that we’ve seen in the past, an approach that would mean a complete takeov...

Our podcast guest this week is fellow podcaster Spencer Klavan, host of the podcast “The American Mind.” In his new book: “How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises,” Spencer defends Western culture and explains why and how we must hand it on to future generations. Spencer is a classicists with a PhD from Oxford.  He lectured at Oxford before becoming associate editor of t...

Our podcast this week features PRI senior fellow in business and economics Wayne Winegarden.  Wayne discusses his study ranking the 50 states in terms of the regulatory burden imposed on charities by the state.  Nonprofits and charities make significant contributions to communities – from food pantries to homeless shelters, to churches and schools.  In some states, the regulatory cost of starting a charity or the reporting requir...

Our guest this week is noted author and attorney Philip Howard. Beginning with his book The Death of Common Sense in 1995, Philip has written about the central role of human responsibility in a functioning government—the freedom to make timely choices, and to be accountable for them. In 2002, he formed Common Good, a nonpartisan coalition to champion these ideas. His latest book, Not Accountable, shows how elected officials have be...

This is the final podcast recording of PRI’s Annual Sacramento Policy Conference.  The theme of this panel discussion is “Reimagining Our Cities.”  The panelists include Hon. Daniel Kolkey, PRI board member and chair of PRI’s California Reform Committee; Tom Tait, former mayor of Anaheim on Anaheim’s “freedom experiment” under his leadership; and Sal Rodriguez, a PRI senior fellow, Opinion Editor of the Southern California News G...

Our podcast this week features a panel from PRI’s 5^th Annual Ideas in Action Conference in Sacramento.  The All-Star PRI panel on improving the quality of life in our cities includes PRI president and Thomas W. Smith fellow in Health Care Sally Pipes, who discusses the state of African American Health Care in our cities; Senior Director of Education Lance Izumi on improving inner...

This podcast is a recording of a panel discussion on the conditions of America’s largest cities from PRI’s 5^th Annual Ideas in Action Conference in Sacramento.  It features an upcoming study by PRI senior fellow in business and economics Wayne Winegarden presented by PRI’s COO Rowena Itchon; Margaret “Marjy” Stagmeier of Tristar Real Estate Investment and author of Blighted: A St...

Our guest this week is Keith Knopf, President and CEO of Raley’s.  Mr. Knopf was the keynote speaker at this year’s PRI Sacramento conference.  He is a senior retail executive who brings deep expertise in strategic leadership, business transformation, consumer insights, sustainability and governance.  Keith served in an executive capacity in three Fortune 200 companies including May Co., Victoria’s Secret, and Kohl’s before joining...

Our guest this week is best-selling author Michael Shellenberger who gave the closing remarks at this year’s Sacramento policy conference. Michael is the author of San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities and Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All. He is cofounder of the California Peace Coalition, an alliance of parents of children killed by fentanyl, parents of homeless addicts, and recovering addicts. Micha...

Our guest this week is PRI senior fellow in urban studies Steve Smith.  Steve is a former police officer, has helped organize peacekeeping forces abroad, and is a retired professor of justice administration. His new study, “Paradise Lost: Crime in the Golden State, 2011 – 2021” documents how a decade of dramatic criminal justice policy changes aimed at reducing incarceration – including AB 109 and Prop. 47 and 57 – and sweeping ex...

Our all-star cast of former speechwriters are back to unpack the President’s State of the Union Address.  Lance Izumi, senior director of Education, was director of Gov. “Duke” Deukmejian’s speechwriting team and was also a speechwriter for former Attorney General Edwin Meese; Tim Anaya, vice president of marketing and communications, was Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s speechwriter and also wrote speeches for senior California legisl...

Our guest this week is one of the nation’s leading experts on China, Gordon Chang.  His analysis and commentary have been published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Barron’s, the National Review and other major media outlets.  He’s also appeared in many television news shows – including CNN, FOX News, CNBC, CBS, PBS, and the BBC.  In these recorded remarks to PRI supporters, Gordon Chang discusses China’s quest...

Our guest this week is Steve Greenhut, PRI director of its Free Cities Center and the author of PRI’s book Winning the Water Wars. Steve discusses the damage from the January storms and the state’s lack of water storage infrastructure that would have prevented the water from running out into the Pacific Ocean.  Despite the heavy rains, the state may still be facing a drought in the summer months.  It’s time that the state’s elected...

Our guest this week is PRI Senior Director of Education Lance Izumi, who along with co-authors Wenyuan Wu and McKenzie Richards, launched PRI’s latest book The Great Parent Revolt: How Parents and Grassroots Leaders Are Fighting Critical Race Theory in America’s Schools. The book profiles ordinary people who have taken on the task of defeating perhaps the most divisive doctrine to ever threaten America’s children. These courageous ...

Our guest this week is foreign policy expert Kiron Skinner. Prof. Skinner is the Taube Professor of International Relations and Politics at Pepperdine School of Public Policy. She’s the recipient of PRI’s 2022 Sir Antony Fisher Freedom Prize.  Prof. Skinner’s past government service includes positions at the State and Defense departments. She is an award-winning and best-selling author with particular scholarship focused on the lif...