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GOP lawmakers tell White House to forgo military base closings

Trish Choate Scripps Howard News Service

Last updated Thursday, March 1, 2012 - 6:02pm

WASHINGTON — Forty-two Republicans reached out to President Barack Obama this week, asking him to forego more military base closings and cuts.

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Experts: Think national impact over community in base closure rounds

Trish Choate Scripps Howard News Service

Last updated Monday, February 27, 2012 - 7:47am

WASHINGTON -- New rounds of military base realignment and closures proposed for 2013 and 2015 will look different from the last round of BRAC, especially for the Air Force, which has a base in Northern Utah.

The new effort will focus on completely shedding infrastructure, and the Air Force is likely to drive the process because of its excess facilities, raising questions about the future of some installations, including Hill Air Force Base.

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William Howard Taft back on political stage in a big way

Trish Choate Scripps Howard News Service

Last updated Sunday, February 5, 2012 - 8:34am

"TAFT 2012: A NOVEL." By Jason Keller. Quirk Books. $14.95.

WASHINGTON -- William Howard Taft was a supersized man who many contend left a puny legacy, but the nation's 27th president changes the shape of things to come in the world imagined by Jason Heller in "Taft 2012: A Novel."

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Sec. of Defense Leon Panetta, left, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, right, outline the main areas of proposed spending cuts during a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington, Thursday, Jan., 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Defense Department nowhere near ready for financial audit

Trish Choate Wichita Falls Times Record

Last updated Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 3:54pm

WASHINGTON -- The Department of Defense has waged war on two fronts in the Middle East, kept complicated fighter, bomber and transport aircraft flying all over the world and schooled troops in high-level intelligence gathering, but it hasn't won the battle of the balance sheet after more than 20 years of engagement.

It's not that the department can't pass a routine financial audit, giving taxpayers an assurance the Pentagon knows how its spending their dollars in these tight budget times.

It's worse than that.

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Scientists study wind farms' effects on temperature, crops

Scripps Howard News Service, Trish Choate Scripps Howard News Service

Last updated Thursday, June 23, 2011 - 12:02pm

WASHINGTON -- Wind farms could have the ability to make days a little cooler and nights a little warmer, make crops grow better and shift the course of a storm.

All that might sound like science fiction, but researchers are finding such results in their studies of turbines and wind farms.

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