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Ringside: Can an Abundance Agenda Unite Business?

June 13, 2024 2:55 amJune 12, 2024 9:19 pm

Scarcity and high prices are not an inevitable fact of life in California. They are the result of political choices. For nearly 50 years, and with escalating severity that shows no sign of abating, politicians in California have enacted legislation...

Solano County Voting Officials Announce California Forever Project Will Be On November Ballot

June 13, 2024 2:45 amJune 13, 2024 5:22 pm

Solano County elections officials announced on Tuesday that the venture capitalist-backed California Forever development plan, which would create a green city for up to 400,000 people in the majority rural county, had received enough validated signatures by voters to place...

Ringside: The Death and Resurrection of CAGOP

June 11, 2024 6:36 amJune 11, 2024 6:41 am

California’s GOP is dead. Candidates for state office rarely gain more than 40 percent of the vote, and GOP representation in the State Senate stands at half that, 20 percent (8 seats out of 40), and in the State Assembly 21 percent (17...

Ringside: Forest Thinning Adds Millions of Acre Feet to California’s Water Supply

June 6, 2024 2:45 amJune 6, 2024 2:46 am

Practical solutions to California’s energy and water shortages will always have a better chance of being implemented if they adhere to the limitations placed upon them by the climate lobby. Thankfully there are numerous solutions, strategic in their impact, that...

California Has a Long History of Squandering its Precious Water

June 1, 2024 2:55 amJune 1, 2024 2:56 am

Gov. Gavin Newsom is bragging about more than $140 million coming from the Biden-Harris Administration to support “critical water storage projects here in California, including the Sites Reservoir.” This is curious since voters already approved Proposition 1 in 2014 together...

Ringside: The Abundance Mindset

May 30, 2024 2:45 amMay 30, 2024 2:46 am

If energy powers modern civilization, then water gives it life. And in California, for at least the last 20 years, with escalating severity, life has been tough. There isn’t enough water to go around. Water scarcity is not being forced...

Ringside: Only Unity Can Challenge Environmentalism, Inc.

May 16, 2024 7:19 amMay 16, 2024 7:19 am

The 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 decision makers and...