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Ringside: Without Sediment Removal in the Delta, Catastrophic Flooding is Coming to California

August 27, 2026 8:14 amAugust 27, 2026 8:14 am

In the cities and farms immediately south of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the worst flooding of the 20th century happened in 1997. Several days of unrelenting rain pummeled the slopes of the Sierras, and with the snow line unusually high at...

Ringside: The Abundance Alliance

April 23, 2026 4:25 pmApril 23, 2026 4:25 pm

Abundance, and its political twin, affordability, are now bipartisan mantras, but cannot be realized if the only permissible avenues are via urban infill, renewable energy, and water rationing. California is uniquely positioned to do much more. Breakthrough technologies and big...

Gubernatorial Rivals Agree: California Got This Farmworker Law Wrong

April 2, 2026 6:30 amApril 2, 2026 12:54 pm

Political agreement is rare. What happened this week at Fresno State demands attention. On April 1, 2026, Republican and Democratic candidates for governor shared the stage and acknowledged a hard truth: California’s elected leaders got it wrong. The Legislature and...

California Blow-Up: How Sacramento Built an Energy Crisis and Called It a Climate Policy

March 25, 2026 9:00 amMarch 25, 2026 9:01 am

Soon after the launch of U.S.-Israeli military operations against Iran, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard closed the Strait of Hormuz, shutting down the flow of nearly a third of all seaborne crude on Earth. The U.S. military, aided by its allies,...

Ringside: Can Energy and Water Interests Find a Common Agenda?

February 26, 2026 7:00 amFebruary 26, 2026 7:03 am

It’s a risk to promote an agenda that calls for practical water projects, and at the same time, calls for practical energy projects. To begin with, the word “practical,” in both cases, is a matter of bitter debate. Equally challenging...

Gov. Gavin Newsom: How to Destroy California in Two Terms

February 4, 2026 11:10 amFebruary 5, 2026 11:21 am

If I was the leftist governor of the largest state in the U.S. and my unspoken goal and unholy plan was to destabilize and destroy my state, there are certain policies I would impose, and executive orders I’d make, while...

The ‘Dirty Dozen’ Gets It Wrong About California Produce

January 27, 2026 4:43 pmJanuary 27, 2026 4:43 pm

Every year, headlines warn shoppers about the so-called “Dirty Dozen,” a list that suggests common fruits and vegetables are coated in dangerous chemicals. Those stories generate fear, but they consistently ignore the facts. In California, the science tells a very...