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Steven Greenhut is a Senior Fellow and contributing editor of the Pacific Research Institute's Journalism Center (www.calwatchdog.com), which was launched in January 2010 to provide in-depth news coverage of California government, with a focus on uncovering waste, fraud and misuse of taxpayer dollars. He writes a weekly column for the Orange County Register, the San Francisco Examiner and the North County Times in Escondido and is a widely published opinion columnist and author.

Previously, Greenhut was deputy editor, senior editorial writer and columnist for The Orange County Register in Santa Ana, Calif. He joined the Register's editorial page staff in 1998, after serving as editorial page editor of The Lima News, a daily newspaper in northwest Ohio. Both newspapers are owned by Irvine-based Freedom Communications.

His book on public employee unions, "Plunder: How Public Employee Unions are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation," came out in November 2009. He is a frequent guest on TV and radio shows. He is author of the 2004 book, "Abuse of Power: How the Government Misuses Eminent Domain." His columns have been published in newspapers across the country including the Wall Street Journal and New York Times online edition. In 2005, Greenhut won the Institute for Justice's Thomas Paine Award for his writing promoting freedom. He graduated from George Washington University in 1982. He is married and has three daughters.