Edward Ring is the director of energy and water policy with the California Policy Center, which he co-founded in 2013 and served as its first president. He is also a senior fellow with the Center for American Greatness, and a regular contributor to the National Review and the California Globe. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Orange County Register, and other media outlets.
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Tom Steyer Will Destroy California’s Historic Small Businesses
/by Edward RingIn the heart of the Santa Cruz Mountains, just off Highway 9, there is a restaurant that has become a community icon. It has a redwood-paneled dining room with exposed roof timbers that was built in 1912 and a historic bar with a wood-burning fireplace. For over a century, the people in this isolated town […]
California’s Plans for Energy and Water Can be Misleading
/by Edward RingWhen Gavin Newsom’s water plan calls for nine million acre feet of new water supply, it turns out part of that total is increased storage capacity in reservoirs, which will not result in an equivalent amount of available water. When the California Energy Commission announces plans to float twenty gigawatts of wind capacity in waters […]
Will Spencer Pratt Realign California?
/by Edward RingBy every reasonable standard of governance, California’s elected politicians have made a mess of the Golden State. Reciting the litany of failures has become so common that it’s hardly worth the trouble. Chaotic, unsafe downtowns. Retail businesses giving up and relocating. Chronic government budget deficits, despite the nation’s highest taxes, set to go higher still. […]
Dredging is a Prerequisite to Increasing California’s Water Supply
/by Edward RingAfter a wet Christmas, the U.S. Drought Monitor declared the entire state of California drought-free on Jan. 6. But you can bet that by early summer, state and local officials will raise the alarm again—demanding draconian government action to combat a problem they attribute to climate change. Torrential rains pummeled the Golden State during the […]
Trump May Wish to Reconsider Term Limits
/by Edward RingAttempts to restructure government at the federal level are mostly on the Democrat agenda. Pack the US Supreme Court. Elect presidents via popular vote. Turn Puerto Rico and Washington, DC, into states with two senators each. Implement national mail-in voting, automatic voter registration, legalize ballot harvesting, lower the voting age to 16, let felons vote, […]