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Ringside: Comparing the Delta Tunnel versus Desalination

February 1, 2024 6:57 amFebruary 2, 2024 6:27 am

Debates over the efficacy of water projects often focus on the monthly cost to end users. For example, in May 2022, a few days before the California Coastal Commission voted unanimously to deny the final permit to build a desalination plant in...

Ringside: The Price of Scarcity

December 27, 2023 6:00 pmDecember 27, 2023 6:01 pm

How much water does $7 billion buy? In so many ways that it almost defies description, California’s lawmakers have relied on flawed logic to justify recently passed laws that will impose punitive urban water rationing. Rather than undertake the Sisyphean...

State Water Project Announces 0% Allocation of Requested Water To Districts

December 2, 2021 12:31 pmDecember 4, 2021 7:46 am

The Department of Water Resources (DWR) announced on Wednesday that the initial 2022 State Water Project (SWP) will be at 0% for the first time in state history due to the ongoing drought. The decision by the State Water Project,...

Ric Grenell’s ‘Fix California:’ Doing the Hard Work to Make Long-Term Impact on California

June 8, 2021 7:12 amJune 8, 2021 7:39 am

Last month the California Globe talked with Richard “Ric” Grenell, former Ambassador to Germany, and President Donald Trump’s former Director of National Intelligence, about his long term plan to “Fix California.” Grenell’s is a long game plan to revamp state...

Ric Grenell Aims to Revamp California Politics and ‘Fix California’

May 18, 2021 2:30 amMay 19, 2021 11:22 am

After a year of COVID lockdowns and Zoom school, Ric Grenell says millions of Californians are tired of being controlled, tired of the political lockdowns and restrictions, and really tired of having their kids forced to sit in front of...

Ric Grenell to ‘Fix California’ With Three-Point Plan in Democrat-Dominated state

April 9, 2021 3:42 pmMarch 17, 2022 8:36 pm

Richard Grenell, former Acting Director of National Intelligence and U.S. Ambassador to Germany, announced he is launching a group called “Fix California” aimed at bringing meaningful change to the Democrat-dominated state. He is also being talked about as a potential...

Richard Grenell Calls for Common Sense California Infrastructure

March 23, 2021 2:49 amMarch 22, 2021 9:04 pm

California resident Richard Grenell, an American diplomat and politician who served in both the Trump and George W. Bush administrations, has been making some unusual and very welcome noise on Twitter. Interspersed amid his more conventional conservative commentary are calls...