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Basnight to Navy: Save your money

bkrueger — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:58 -0500

N.C. Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight told the state’s congressional delegation today that North Carolina doesn’t need any more study about a Navy outlying landing field.

The Navy, he wrote, can save its money.

“I am pleased to inform you that these studies and their significant costs are not needed. The people of northeastern North Carolina DO NOT wish to have an outlying landing field constructed in their community,” Basnight wrote in a letter to the delegation, reports Barb Barrett.

State sides with OLF opponents

janestancill — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:57:55 -0400

The N.C. Department of Justice says it will be an ally to northeastern North Carolina in its fight against the U.S. Navy's proposed Outlying Landing Field.

A letter from the Attorney General's office to U.S. Rep. Walter Jones, a Farmville Republican, indicates the department would enforce laws by which the state would retain some jurisdiction over lands seized for an OLF in counties that do not already have military bases. That would allow the counties to enforce noise ordinances, for example, on the Navy.

Mussel could provide defense against OLF

bniolet — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:09:05 -0400

Wetlands and rare mussels could be the best block to the Navy's plans to build a practice airfield in northeastern North Carolina.

The word from representatives of opponents to the Outlying Landing Field, or OLF, came a few days after the Navy said it would delay the release of an environmental impact study until spring, the Virginian Pilot reports.

McCain on OLF

janestancill — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:28:04 -0400

U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the top Republican on the Committee on Armed Services, opposed Sen. Richard Burr's amendment, which would prevent the Navy from building an outlying landing field on two sites in Camden and Gates counties.

Burr on OLF

janestancill — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:15:57 -0400

During his Senate floor speech this afternoon, U.S. Sen. Richard Burr submitted decisions from the legislature opposing the Gates and Camden sites into the official congressional record.

He also stressed that the Navy’s proposed outlying landing strip would bring just 52 jobs, reports Barb Barrett.

Senate defeats OLF amendment

janestancill — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:18:46 -0400

The Senate defeated Sen. Richard Burr’s amendment to prohibit the Navy from building its outlying landing field on two potential sites in Gates and Camden counties.

The amendment, co-sponsored by Sen. Kay Hagan, went down on a voice vote in a nearly empty chamber, reports Barb Barrett. It would have been attached to the defense authorization bill now being debated.

Burr amendment: No OLF

janestancill — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:12:45 -0400

U.S. Sens. John McCain and Carl Levin just agreed on the Senate floor to bring up the Burr Amendment to the defense authorization bill this afternoon.

That would be the amendment to keep the Navy from building an outlying landing field at either of two sites in Gates and Camden counties. The two locations are among several the Navy is considering.

NC can't kill OLF

bniolet — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:03:46 -0400

North Carolina's work to squelch a Navy landing strip in the state's rural northeast has hit a snag on Capitol Hill, with the state's two senators unable to push through language to block the development.

U.S. Sens. Kay Hagan and Richard Burr say they will try again this week on the Senate floor after being rebuffed in an earlier Armed Services Committee vote.

Amendment would bar OLF

bniolet — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:37:53 -0400

The Navy could be prohibited from building an isolated landing strip for its Oceana Naval Air Station fighter jets at the Hales Lake and Sandbanks sites that are now under consideration by the Navy.

Most Read: Bad news edition

ryanteaguebeckwith — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:21:17 -0500

The most-read posts this week were bad news.

The state's not doing well. The governor got a kick on the way out the door and a woman may have lied to a newspaper reporter. The posts:

1. Not-So Great Expectations: State tax collections are down 6.1 percent from projections, or about $520 million below what economists expected. So it's their fault...