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Friday, April 29, 2005

“Please Close Our Military Base”

ND NEWS

Call it bizarro-North Dakota. In lieu of the upcoming base closures the city of Concord, CA is working overtime to see to it that their military base will be closed.


USA Today- This city of 124,000 northeast of San Francisco has taken the unusual step of asking the Defense Department to close a naval weapons station here. Its sprawling acres are far more valuable for development in the USA's priciest metropolitan housing market than the station's 100 civilian jobs, the city says.

That's hard to fathom given the hoopla in this state about fighting tooth and nail to keep our 3 bases around. As crazy as it sounds, it is a pretty wise decision on the part of the city. This rarely used base looks like it has a lot of potential of development and real estate. How ironic would it be if they kept theirs and we lost one of ours??

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