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Airport fence: Anything for ‘security’

Written December 23rd, 2013 by Hasso Hering

Wasting a quarter-million dollars is one thing. Making the airport property line near Timber Linn Park look like the outer perimeter of a prison is another. The city of Albany has done both now that the new fence along the east side of the municipal airport is mostly completed.


Protecting Albany airport from — what?

Written November 5th, 2013 by Hasso Hering

                The city of Albany is having a new fence put up at the city airport because, well, the government says it must. And that requirement raises a question: Is it necessary? The placement of the fence along the airport’s southeastern boundary prompted a discussion before the city […]


 
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