Steven Greenhut
Sacramento To America’s progressive politicians, the solution to rapidly escalating inflation is remarkably simple. “We” simply need to cap the cost of all the important stuff that people buy. As U.S. Rep. Shontel Brown, D-Ohio, argued in terms echoed by…
Sacramento Insulin prices are rising, so the state has announced a plan to “explore ways to contract and manufacture our own insulin to reduce costs,” according to a tweet in January from Gov. Gavin Newsom. “Insulin should not drain your…
Sacramento A Facebook friend recently published a link to some dodgy website, so I did what most of us do. I posted a critical comment, which led to a back and forth with someone I’ve never even met. I somehow…
Supporters of Hawaii’s effort to ban flavored-tobacco products would have the public believe that the measure is an unobjectionable, common-sense effort to boost public health. For instance, House Bill 1570’s author, Rep. Scot Matayoshi, told Civil Beat that it’s just…
Sacramento Despite California’s growing number of failures and crises — ranging from homelessness to housing affordability to crime to poverty — voters are about to grant Gov. Gavin Newsom another four-year term. And, as news reports put it, he’s about…
Sacramento In a normally managed state, news of a ban on oil imports from Russia — and gas prices that are nailing local residents to the tune of $6 or more a gallon in some cities — would spur officials…
Sacramento The Arizona Republican Party saved itself some embarrassment this week after the state Senate voted overwhelmingly to censure Wendy Rogers — the GOP senator from Flagstaff who spoke at a white nationalist convention and said that the Ukrainian president…
Sacramento After moving to northern California a dozen years ago, I attended a talk in downtown San Francisco by a candidate for local office and wasn’t too surprised by the progressive blather I was hearing given, well, the location. Then…
Sacramento — During a recent drive from Portland, Oregon, to Sacramento, I spotted a bizarre billboard along Interstate 5 that proclaimed, “A lot of humans wish they never were born.” That’s no doubt true and a fascinating concept to discuss with…
