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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Only Unity Can Challenge Environmentalism Inc.
/by Edward RingThe California Environmental Quality Act was passed by the state legislature in 1971. At that time, it was the first legislation of its kind in the nation, if not the world. Its original intent was to “inform government decisionmakers and the public about the potential environmental effects of proposed activities and to prevent significant, avoidable environmental […]
Taking Back California – Part Three, Fighting Crime
/by Edward RingIn recent years, California’s become a target for conservatives around the rest of the country who claim it is the prime example of a deep blue state where crime is out of control. This isn’t entirely deserved, since blue cities across the U.S. cope with similar, if not worse, levels of violent crime and property […]
Water Czars Ignore Solutions to Scarcity
/by Edward RingThe Delta Tunnel proposal exemplifies California’s political dysfunction. It will probably never get built, but it promises to dominate all discussions of major state and federal spending on water infrastructure for the next decade, preventing any other big ideas from getting the attention they merit. Like the bullet train and offshore wind, it is a […]
Taking Back California – Part Two, Fixing Education
/by Edward RingConvincing California’s affluent white liberals to vote Republican is not worth the effort. As noted in part one, these voters don’t feel the consequences of the policies that are killing California the way everyone else does. California’s white Democrats tend to live in higher-income neighborhoods with better schools and lower crime rates. Often, they live in […]
Taking Back California – Part One, The Voters
/by Edward RingCalifornia is a one-party state. The good news, if you want to call it that, is that California’s Republicans have nowhere to go but up. In the wake of the 2022 midterms, Republican seats in the state legislature are the lowest they’ve been in the history of the state; they hold 18 out of 80 […]