Chairman and members of the committee,

My name is Marc Hyden, and I am the director of state government affairs for the R Street Institute, which is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public policy…

California’s Gov. Hiram Johnson propelled the state into its century-long embrace of direct democracy in 1911, as he ushered in the referendum, initiative, and recall process. For conservatives,…

From Talk Radio 105.9 KNRS:

4:35 pm: James Wallner, a Senior Fellow in Governance for the R Street Institute, joins the show for a conversation about the election results in Georgia yesterday and…

2020 bore witness to the one of the longest legislative sessions in Georgia’s history. Ordinarily, the General Assembly convenes in early January and adjourns in the early spring, but the COVID-19…

From Hawai’i Business Magazine:

Anthony Lamorena, a government affairs associate with R Street, a conservative and libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C., says occupational…

International health experts applauded President-elect Joe Biden’s recent election and claimed that it would usher in a new era of global cooperation and science-backed decisions. This could very…

California’s historically severe drought, which ended in March 2019, had dominated Capitol discussions during its eight-year run, yet had not led to any dramatic changes in the way the state…

From The Appeal:

And California capped probation terms at one year for misdemeanors and two years for felonies.

From Captured Economy:

Jeffrey A. Singer presents a Goldwater Institute and R Street Institute study endorsing state scope-of-practice expansions for pharmacists in Cato commentary.

Bail reform efforts that seek to shrink jail populations and scale back the use of cash bail have long been the subject of intense discourse. Cook County, which encompasses the broader Chicago area,…