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Author: Andy Caldwell

Andy Caldwell is a government watchdog, business and taxpayer advocate, and a Central Coast opinion leader. Andy is the Executive Director of COLAB (The Coalition of Labor, Agriculture and Business), a non-profit organization that serves the families, the heritage of, and the Central Coast economy.

More California Chickens Come Home to Roast

January 22, 2025   1:42 pmJanuary 22, 2025   1:42 pm
What burns hotter than a disco inferno?  A fire in a battery energy storage system designed to store electricity from intermittent sources such as wind and solar. Both Goleta and Nipomo have these battery energy storage facilities and Lompoc may...
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Fires, Floods, and Fools: Rhetoric vs. Disaster

January 16, 2025   3:30 amJanuary 16, 2025   3:31 am
Back in the 1990’s, I penned my first in a series of articles dealing with the subject matter of  “Fires, Floods, and Fools,” a never-ending cycle in California.  Having lived through the 1969 flood and countless fires, it was a...
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Consumers Are the Collateral Damage In the War on Oil, Trucking, and Farming

October 25, 2024   11:51 amOctober 25, 2024   11:51 am
The State of California is ramping up its war on oil and agriculture and, as a result, California is heading for some desperate times. The war on oil includes production, trucking, and consumption. The war on production includes banning fracking,...
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Vandenberg Space Force Base’s Future Threatened by a ‘Black Hole’ of Red Tape

July 25, 2024   4:00 pmJuly 25, 2024   4:01 pm
Decades ago, Motorola was trying to launch satellites from Vandenberg Air Force Base and the company was about to give up doing business here because of the risks associated with what they called “the black hole of environmental review that...
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Santa Barbara Ambulance Controversy Exposé

July 19, 2023   2:53 pmJuly 19, 2023   3:08 pm
Did the county of Santa Barbara prematurely and covertly purchase $3.6 million of ambulances while the county fire department was still locked in a bid competition against American Medical Response for an exclusive countywide ambulance service contract? The answer is...
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Psychic Predictions and New Year’s Resolutions!

January 3, 2023   9:04 amJanuary 3, 2023   9:12 am
It has been my tradition to offer my very own psychic predictions for the new year. This year, my predictions are all too easy. That is, life in California will continue to be a dystopian reality unless your New Year’s...
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The War America Can’t Afford to Win

March 10, 2022   2:32 amMarch 9, 2022   5:00 pm
The war on fossil fuels is now fully engaged and casualties are abounding. The first casualty is the affordability of fuel. Gas prices will soon be double what they were when Joe Biden became president because he has done more...
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