[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: San Antonio (TX) hearing

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Memo to military gateway communities, state officials: 'You snooze, you 
lose!'


By Bill Sontag
Del Rio Live! (TX)
September 11, 2008


Each military installation and its gateway community's interests are at 
once unique and complicated, but the bottom line for all is that if 
military presence at any base is to be preserved, local and state 
officials must help guard against encroachment that threatens the mission.

That was the overarching message presented by nearly all who testified 
to the state Senate Veteran Affairs & Military Installations Committee 
at the San Antonio Municipal Auditorium, Monday (Sept. 8).  An audience 
of about 100 heard 15 military leaders, county commissioners, 
congressional representatives, and city council members advise Committee 
Chair Sen. Leticia Van de Putte (D-District 26, San Antonio) and the 
members about real threats, probable consequences, and safeguard 
measures to be considered.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.swtexaslive.com/node/7510

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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