Wisconsin State Journal – Letter to the Editor – October 6, 2021 Read online As highlighted by the State Journal story on Sunday “Future noise concerns could scuttle housing,” Madison City Council members should be thanked for questioning new residential development along East Washington Avenue — ground zero for...
Opinion: Steve Books Wisconsin State Journal | Aug 27, 2021 Military jet flyovers are a negative way to acknowledge America. How about a moment of silence instead? There have been flyovers recently that didn’t make any sense. To have a military jet flyover to “honor” Arizona hospital workers in May of...
On August 4th, the Madison Common Council voted to stop development of the Raemisch Farm Property on Madison’s north site adjacent to the Dane County Airport. We applaud the Council for protecting another generation of city residents from the ugly and unhealthy noise created by air traffic, especially that...
John E. Peck, executive director, Family Farm Defenders writes on 8/13/21: As I write this article, the “sound of freedom” (to paraphrase our former Republican WI Governor, Scott Walker) is roaring over my home as F-16 fighter jets practice their take-off maneuvers from the nearby Truax Air Base. None have...
BY SEAN MCFATE, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — The Hill, 03/11/21 Read online (with more links) It’s official: The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is a “rathole” of taxpayer money, something defense experts already knew — at least those without dubious ties to the military industrial blob. Now the House Armed Services...
Move the people or move the jets: stop building housing for poor and people of color where it is noisiest and the most polluted. Stop handing the costs to the powerless and the profits to the powerful. These are flaws in the market. #corruption #externalized costs Environmental Racism Causes...
We’ve been busy. Cat Typing GIF from Cat GIFs More to come – but here’s something you can do right now: President Biden wants your input and has set up a website for comments. Please let him know we do not want the proposed squadron of $1.5 billion F-35...
One approach to prevent the F-35 fighter jets from coming to Truax Field is changing the mission of the 115th Fighter Wing to one of the other 44 missions available to Air National Guard units. Safe Skies has asked Governor Evers and Adjutant General Knapp of the Wisconsin National...
Thank you to the 1,228 readers whose letters to the editor were published during 2020 Wisconsin State Journal editorial board Jan 3, 2021 Read online Even in the digital age with countless social media sites available to the public, your daily newspaper is still the best and most impactful...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 4, 2021 Contact: Steven Klafka, steven.klafka@gmail.com, 608-213-4473 News Release PDF Fighter Jet Noise Disrupts Lives, Children, and Working from Home Results of the 2020 Fighter Jet Noise Survey have been released by Safe Skies Clean Water Wisconsin. Thus far,...