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FeaturedGovernmentTobacco
Vaping Hysteria Will Mean More Tobacco Deaths
by Jeff Stier August 21, 2019When products could save lives, it’s important for people to be informed about those benefits, along with the risks.
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Budgets/Taxes
San Francisco Wants To Devastate Its Economy To Help the Homeless
by Chris Talgo January 10, 2019For decades, San Francisco’s Silicon Valley has been a technology incubator.
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Federal judge William Alsup recently dismissed a lawsuit by Oakland and San Francisco against oil companies for costs related to global warming. The decision is wise, regardless of whether global warming threatens humanity’s future.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedTobacco
San Francisco’s Proposed Flavor Ban is a Disservice to Tobacco Harm Reduction
by Lindsey Stroud June 4, 2018On June 5, voters in San Francisco will vote whether the city should ban flavors, including menthol, in tobacco and vaping products. Proposition E comes a year after the San…
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
California Sues Over Global Warming, Judge Orders Climate Lesson
by William M. Briggs March 14, 2018The descent of climate science into the surreal is about to take another comedic slide.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Earth Day has Become Polluted by Ideology and Ignorance
by Jeff Stier April 22, 2017In recent years, Earth Day has evolved into an occasion for environmental Cassandras to prophesy apocalypse, dish antitechnology dirt, and proselytize. Passion and zeal routinely trump science, and provability takes a back seat to plausibility.
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Cities across the nation have passed tax increase on sugar content in sweetened beverages. Despite the good intentions, research has shown efforts by companies have already reduced sugar and offered alternative options to informed consumers, making them unnecessary.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsFeatured
Minimum Wage Laws Claim Another Business
by Erik Root February 4, 2015Advocates of minimum wage laws argue that it is more humanitarian to force wage increases, but how humanitarian is it to cost someone their business or their job?
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Did Janet Yellen,
(1) see any problem in the housing bubble,
(2) anticipate the bursting of the housing bubble; and,
(3) anticipate its implications for the U.S. economy?The answers are (1) no, (2) no, and (3) no.
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EconomicsFeaturedLegal AffairsLibertyPolitics
Campaign Seeks to Outlaw Low-Skilled Labor in Seattle
by Matt Faherty August 20, 2013Seeking to surpass San Francisco, Seattle residents are trying to establish the largest ban on low skilled labor in the country. Earlier in the year, San Francisco raised its wage…
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EconomicsLegal AffairsPolitics
The Latest Insanity from California: Orange Punch Update
by Jim Lakely July 30, 2011I’m a former resident of Southern California. I like to joke that I left the backward, dysfunctional and corrupt politics and policies of the formerly Golden State for the sunny…