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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 | Mar 6, 2024

SACRAMENTO — The best way to avoid a life of poverty is to develop work skills that are marketable. That…

by | Feb 28, 2024

SACRAMENTO — Thanks to the wonders of social media, it’s easy to find large communities of car-loathing, bicycle-riding, transit-loving urbanists…

by | Feb 14, 2024

SACRAMENTO — California’s environmental-friendly lawmakers were quite proud of themselves when, in 2014, they passed a first-in-the-nation ban on stores from…

by | Feb 7, 2024

SACRAMENTO — A Washington state Senate committee last week passed legislation designed to bolster democratic engagement by requiring eligible Washington…

by | Jan 17, 2024

SACRAMENTO — One of my favorite Soviet-era jokes involved a man who was admiring a shiny American car on a…

by | Jan 10, 2024

A week before the 1980 election, Ronald Reagan closed his debate with President Jimmy Carter with some of the most memorable questions…

by | Jan 3, 2024

SACRAMENTO — A front-page Washington Post investigation provides, as reporter Kyle Swenson promotes it in an X post, “an inside look at a well-funded…

by | Dec 27, 2023

SACRAMENTO — After Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1228, raising the minimum wage for fast-food workers and creating a…

by | Dec 13, 2023

SACRAMENTO — Those of us who know and love San Francisco have a pretty good idea why the city continues…

by | Dec 6, 2023

SACRAMENTO — With federal spending topping $6 trillion and the national debt approaching an impossible-to-fathom $34 trillion, it might seem…

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