[CPEO-IRF] Life without Kirtland AFB (NM)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Gene Grant: First base

It's time we started making plans for life without Kirtland

By Gene Grant, Columnist
Albuquerque Tribune (NM)
April 21, 2005

The city is bracing yet again for another spring rite - a Base 
Realignment and Closure cycle for the military bases around the country 
that the federal government deems redundant or unnecessary. Locally, 
that arrow could point to Kirtland Air Force Base. The list of bases 
facing possible BRAC actions will be released May 16.

In case you've only recently moved here, do yourself a favor and go to 
the Trib's Web site - www.abqtrib.com - where there is terrific 
reporting that will get you caught up with the back story, so you can 
understand the drama in context.

As is the usual case, the local power-brokers' wagons have circled yet 
again in another well-rehearsed choreography. These brokers are good, 
smart people with a strong sense of civic pride, who will go to the 
nation's capital and represent us well in this effort, as they've done 
since 1995.

All that said, here is my question: Is it so crushing a thought that 
Kirtland might close?

...

For the entire column, see
http://www.abqtrib.com/albq/op_columnists/article/0,2565,ALBQ_19865_3715364,00.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org

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