Author: Edward Ring

Edward Ring is the director of water and energy policy for the California Policy Center, which he co-founded in 2013 and served as its first president. The California Policy Center is an educational non-profit focused on public policies that aim to improve California’s democracy and economy. He is also a senior fellow of the Center for American Greatness. Ring is the author of two books: "Fixing California - Abundance, Pragmatism, Optimism" (2021), and "The Abundance Choice - Our Fight for More Water in California" (2022).

How Federal Intervention Can Ease California’s Homeless Crisis

October 30, 2019 7:25 pmOctober 31, 2019 12:05 pm

By Edward Ring and Soledad Ursua On October 24, Curbed LA reported that the Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted to provide an additional $24 million in homeless housing bonds to “repurpose a building (207) on the Veterans Affairs campus in West Los...

How Many Laws Does San Francisco’s Prop. A Violate?

October 21, 2019 2:10 amOctober 20, 2019 3:07 pm

Whether or not San Francisco’s upcoming appeal to voters to borrow $600 million to pay for for low income housing is a good idea or a bad idea depends on who you ask. Proponents claim Prop. A, which will appear on...

CalPERS is Heavily Invested in Chinese Companies

October 10, 2019 9:40 amOctober 14, 2019 12:13 pm

On October 1st, 2019, the People’s Republic of China celebrated its 70th anniversary. The centerpiece of their festivities was a massive military parade down the streets of Beijing, and the centerpiece of that parade was China’s newest intercontinental ballistic missile, the...

San Francisco’s Prop. A: Expensive Insanity Marches On

October 8, 2019 10:05 amOctober 8, 2019 7:38 am

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein There is no solid evidence that one of history’s greatest geniuses ever said this, but its applicability to California’s housing crisis is...

Author: Edward Ring

How Federal Intervention Can Ease California’s Homeless Crisis

How Many Laws Does San Francisco’s Prop. A Violate?

CalPERS is Heavily Invested in Chinese Companies

San Francisco’s Prop. A: Expensive Insanity Marches On

Public Sector Unions Buy Another ‘Republican’ Politician

The Opportunity Cost of Shutting Down Diablo Canyon

New Legislation Will Mandate Cal State Students Take Ethnic Studies Class