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Steven Greenhut

Steven Greenhut

Steven Greenhut is a senior fellow and Western region director for the R Street Institute. Write to him at sgreenhut@rstreet.org. His political views are his own.
by | Jan 18, 2018

California Gov. Jerry Brown introduced his final budget last week. For a sense of perspective, the first general-fund budget he…

by | Jan 11, 2018

Some bad ideas — and bad politicians — just won’t go away. Former California Republican Assembly leader Chad Mayes of…

by | Jan 4, 2018

Sacramento I’ve routinely slammed California’s Democratic leaders for their plodding lack of creativity in dealing with the state’s many crises….

by | Dec 28, 2017

Sacramento We know the story by now. The public was fed up with a dysfunctional government that was awash in…

by | Dec 21, 2017

Sacramento A union official was once reportedly asked what exactly it was that he wanted. The questioner was not talking…

by | Dec 14, 2017

Sacramento When I first moved to California from Ohio in the 1990s, I spotted a postcard in a gift shop…

by | Dec 7, 2017

Sacramento I love the Houston Chronicle story about the modest suburban Texas grocery store that defeated the Soviet Union and…

by | Nov 30, 2017

There’s little question that Jerry Brown has had a long and storied career in California politics. He was the state’s…

by | Nov 23, 2017

Sacramento The 2014 death of Eric Garner spurred Black Lives Matter protests. In fact, Garner’s final words — “I can’t breathe” —…

by | Nov 16, 2017

Sacramento Remember the days when Democratic politicians at least pretended that, although they wanted abortions to be “safe and legal,”…

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