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Recent news in the Wisconsin State Journal, Cap Times, and on Channel 3000 highlighted a key finding of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) just released on the proposed F35…
Public engagement tokenized, environmental justice ignored According to an April 2019 Draft Environmental Assessment (EA), Truax Air National Guard is planning major demolition, construction, and renovation projects from 2020-2027 at…
By Steve Verburg, Wisconsin State Journal Last spring, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources warned Truax Air National Guard base in Madison it could face enforcement action if it didn’t…
“Giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism” dominate even in liberal Madison “I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we…
At the invitation of the National Guard Bureau, a group of Madison alders submitted requested comments on May 21 for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) about the proposal to…
From Brenda Konkel’s April 18 Forward Lookout blog: “The Chamber of Commerce was just one vote away from from preventing the City of Madison from giving input on about the…
Martin Luther King Jr. on balcony of Lorraine Motel in Memphis TN just before he was assassinated on April 4, 1968 (AP photo). Today is the 50th anniversary of Martin…
How loud will supersonic F-35 fighter jets be? What munitions will they carry? Throughout the National Guard Bureau’s (NGB) Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) scoping session on March 8, a video…
Last night the National Guard and U.S. Air Force held a “scoping” meeting for the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that must be developed before “beddown” of F35s at Madison Truax…
Madison Alder Marsha Rummel announced a listening session about the proposal to locate F35s at Madison’s Truax Air National Guard Base on her website. Information below is directly from Alder…
By Steve Verburg, Wisconsin State Journal The Air National Guard has begun accepting public comments on the scope of a study it will conduct on the expected environmental impact of…
What would Martin Luther King, Jr. say about the proposal to locate F-35 supersonic fighter jets at Madison’s Truax Field Air National Guard base? In his 1967 “Beyond Vietnam” speech,…
By S. Michael Shivers, Cap Times letter to the editor, Jan. 12, 2018 Dear Editor: Having known for months that the supersonic F-35 jet was proposed to be based at…