With Vermont’s highest elected officials still deep in Defense Dept. denial over the disaster that is the Air Force’s F-35 strike fighter, a local city council threatens to bring some military sanity to Vermont (but nowhere else) by exercising its landlord right to reject as a tenant a weapon of mass destruction that will wreak […]
Editor’s note: This commentary is by Rosanne Greco, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel who is now a member of the South Burlington City Council. Dear Sen. Leahy, Sen. Sanders, and Rep. Welch, For years, people have been asking you to meet with those who will live in the noise zone of the F-35A, and […]
-FORWARD WIDELY- No F-35 ! People before Planes NO to Basing the F-35 Warplane in Burlington! Protect our children’s health! YES to affordable housing and livable neighborhoods, no to a boondoggle warplane Vermont’s Congressional Delegation should represent their constituents-not the military-industrial-commercial real estate complex Rally and March Burlington City Hall 2 pm, Saturday […]
Wednesday, June 12th, 2013 Burlington VT The Burlington Free Press “asked the Vermont political leaders who have supported the plane to explain the economic benefits, the source of their information about the importance of the new plane to the Vermont Air National Guard and to speak about their understanding of the capabilities of the plane. They were […]
Tuesday June 4th, 2013 Burlington, VT Journalist, John Briggs reports that the Burlington Free Press has sent numerous detailed and specific questions to Senators Patrick Leahy, Bernard Sanders, Congressman Peter Welch, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin, and Burlington Vermont Mayor Miro Weinberger emanating from a meeting with aviation designer Pierre Sprey, USAF Col. Rosanne Greco (ret.) […]
Saturday, June 1st, 2013 With our political, business and military leaders having COMPLETELY IGNORED opposition force’s repeated requests for open, transparent public engagement and dialogue around the basing of F-35 warplanes capable of carrying nuclear weapons, we were forced to take matters into our own hands. Before a packed house at the Unitarian Universalist Church […]