Edward Ring is a contributing editor and senior fellow 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 California Globe. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Forbes, and other media outlets.
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Is Photovoltaic Power Competitive?
/by Edward RingAs reported in Politico on 10/29, “Westlands Water District, which supplies some of California’s driest farmland in the Central Valley, is making plans to convert some 200 square miles of it — an area roughly the size of Detroit — into what would be the largest solar installation in the world.” The motivation for this is understandable […]
Rescuing California Requires Challenging Crony Environmentalism
/by Edward RingThe Speaker of the Assembly in the California state legislature, Robert Rivas, recently said that “California must not fixate on Trump and forget about affordability.” Fat chance. California has been under the absolute control of Democrats for a generation. It’s their policies that have made the state unaffordable. By now, the only people who deny that California’s […]
Finding Water for the San Joaquin Valley
/by Edward RingFarmers in the San Joaquin Valley require roughly 15 million acre feet of water per year to irrigate their crops. In return they produce more than half of all California’s agricultural output. But everything is changing. Since 2000 the amount of water the farmers receive from the State Water Project and the Central Valley Project has […]
The Corruption of Democracy, California Style
/by Edward RingWishful thinking aside, California did not participate in the realignment that, on November 5, 2024, may have transformed American politics forever. The positive spin on California’s dismal failure to liberate itself from failing Democrat policies rests on what are, in the cold light of day, modest achievements. California’s voters approved Proposition 36, a ballot initiative […]
Newsom’s ‘Climate Action’ is a Perfect Storm of Destruction
/by Edward RingKern County, California, is being destroyed by a perfect storm. But this storm isn’t due to “climate change.” It’s caused by laws and lawsuits designed to take away the industries that have sustained this county’s economy for over a century, oil and farming. In both cases, a hostile state government, abetted by activist bureaucrats and […]