Kerry Jackson

A new awards programme is being launched to find unsung heroes from communities in the east and south of Wigan borough

High speed rail, now costing $231 billion, has become so toxic that comedian Bill Maher has told Gov. Gavin Newsom that he needs to kill it.

Environmental activists have entered an ideological train wreck zone, where their demands collide and negate each other. So good luck, Sacramento, with that net-zero dream.

The CA Energy Commission says passenger cars running “more efficient replacement tires” will save $153 over the tires' four-year life.

Government efforts that rig the system to produce more affordable housing are neither effective nor noble — especially when policymakers target a trend that has captured the public's imagination while improving and increasing the housing stock.

Californians are told almost daily that Sacramento understands the state's affordability crisis. Lawmakers hold hearings about it.

Given the embarrassing history of the high-speed rail's setbacks, the causes of which are almost exclusive to the state's won't-build-can't-build climate, don't expect California to be the bullet bus leader.

Editor's note: This is excerpted, with permission, from the Pacific Research Institute's Right by the Bay blog.

California's latest war on plastic isn't just changing what Californians can buy. According to a lawsuit filed by 17 states, it's quietly bending the rules for manufacturers and consumers across America.

The Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act, passed and signed in 2022, went into effect on May 1. It demands a lot. By 2032,