Dayton: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base News & Info

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From the 1/17/07 DDN:


Air Force base preps for new jobs, budget cuts
By John Nolan
Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 17, 2007

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — Budget pressures and preparing for the future will each have an impact this year at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

Col. Colleen M. Ryan, who as commander of the 88th Air Base Wing gets the colloquial title of Wright-Patterson's "mayor," gave reporters an overview on Wednesday of what to look for at the base in 2007:


Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2242 or jnolan@DaytonDailyNews.com.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/01/17/ddn011707wpafboutlookweb.html

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From the 1/19/07 Skywrighter:


Combat arms facility at Wright-Patterson only one of its kind
by Mike Wallace
Skywrighter staff
January 19, 2007

When marksmen come to Wright-Patterson’s combat arms section, Bldg. 296, Area A, in February to compete for 25 Excellence-in-Competition medals, they’ll find a unique, state–of-the-art facility.

The indoor range there has 21 stations from which competitors will use M-16A2 rifles to fire from unsupported standing, kneeling, sitting and prone positions during timed rounds at reduced silhouette targets 25 meters away. The competition will include one-and-a-half hours in the classroom and two hours on the range as well as several heats, with the results available after the last one...


For more information about the rifle competition, call Sgt. Rice at DSN 787-2309/7388 or (937)257-2309/7388.

http://www.skywrighter.com/news/2007/0119/8combatarms.asp

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All from the 1/28/07 DDN:


GRAPHIC: Projects coming to Wright-Patt

Wright-Pat to make room for more posts
By John Nolan
Staff Writer
Sunday, January 28, 2007

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — Base officials are getting ready to start an ambitious construction program to house incoming aerospace medicine and other research programs.

Planning and design videoconferences for the construction at Wright-Patterson are already under way. Initial bids are to be advertised in April or May. Congress could appropriate construction money by October, which would clear the way for work to start...


http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/business/2007/01/27/ddn012807brac1a.html
Building a better air force base
The consolidation and realignment orders are complete. Now the challenge is to construct the labs, dorms and other buildings in time for a 2011 deadline.
By John Nolan
Staff Writer
Sunday, January 28, 2007

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — The commander of the unit that operates this sprawling base has the tricky job of coordinating 15 construction projects to house the research programs being moved into Wright-Patterson within five years...


Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2242 or jnolan@DaytonDailyNews.com.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/business/2007/01/27/ddn012807bracbiz.html

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From the 1/31/07 DDN:


Wright-Pat's $19 million hinges on bill
Congress considering a cut in BRAC funds that would pay for construction at base.
By John Nolan
Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 31, 2007

A budget tug-of-war between congressional Democrats and the Bush administration could affect $19 million requested to prepare for construction at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to house research programs scheduled to relocate there within five years.

It is part of catch-up funding Congress must appropriate soon, for the fiscal year that began last Oct. 1, to keep most of the government from shutting down when interim spending authority expires on Feb. 15. The House could take up the measure today, with the Senate to consider it soon afterward...



http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/business/2007/01/30/ddn013107bracfront.html

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From the 2/7/07 Fairborn Daily Herald:


BRAC budget up in the air
RAINEY HOWARTH
Staff Writer

Air Force representatives said Tuesday it's too early to tell how possible BRAC cuts for fiscal year 2007 and a proposed budget of $8.2 billion for 2008 will affect planned expansion at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a $463.5 billion spending bill Jan. 31 that includes $3.3 billion less than President Bush had originally asked for BRAC...


The Associated Press and WDTN Channel 2 contributed to this report.

http://www.fairborndailyherald.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=123899&TM=46782.82

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From the 2/10/07 Fairborn Daily Herald:


Marine reserve unit to make Wright-Patt home
RAINEY HOWARTH
Staff Writer

FAIRBORN - A marine reserve unit is scheduled to make its new home at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base if construction plans go forward in 2008.

Aging buildings and goals to protect anti-terrorism forces by locating reserve centers on military installations are sending the Military Police Company C, Headquarters and Service Battalion, 4th Marine Logistics Group, Marine Forces Reserve, to Fairborn from Dayton, according to military officials...


http://www.fairborndailyherald.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=123938&TM=45943.34

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From the 2/23/07 Skywrighter:


BRAC reshaping local communities
by Derek Kaufman
88th ABW Public Affairs
February 23, 2007

At Wright-Patterson AFB and across the nation, the military’s transformation because of base realignment and closure changes are reshaping communities.

The economic impact of BRAC decisions can be profound, which is why military leaders, government officials and business leaders are frequently gathering to discuss mission changes and looking for opportunities to develop strategies to prepare for what is coming and going...


http://www.skywrighter.com/news/2007/0223/1BRAC.asp

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From the 3/1/07 Fairborn Daily Herald:


Wright-Patt to add even bigger supercomputer
RAINEY HOWARTH
Staff Writer

FAIRBORN - The 9,216-processor core of a new supercomputer heading to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base will give the military, and the local community, power for future innovation.

The Aeronautical Systems Center Major Shared Resource Center High Performance Computing Center is one of just four national DoD computational sites. In May, they will get their fourth supercomputer, an SGI Altix 4700. The new system is nearly double the combined power of the older computers...


http://www.fairborndailyherald.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=124162&TM=63186.88

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From the 3/9/07 DDN:


Democrats to propose $3.1B in BRAC funding
Money will be used to carry out military restructuring mandate, which includes new programs for WPAFB.
By John Nolan
Staff Writer
Friday, March 09, 2007

Democrats in the U.S. House said Thursday that they will propose $3.1 billion in funding to carry out military restructuring mandated by the Base Realignment and Closure process of 2005, under which Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is to receive new programs in coming years.

The $3.1 billion could include $19 million that Wright-Patterson officials are counting on receiving this year to do infrastructure work...


Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2242 or jnolan@DaytonDailyNews.com.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/business/2007/03/08/ddn030907brac.html

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From the 3/19/07 Dayton Business Journal:


Hope Hotel to undergo $1M renovation by end of year
Dayton Business Journal - March 16, 2007
by Tim Tresslar
DBJ Senior Reporter
 
A $1 million makeover of the Hope Hotel and Conference Center is expected to begin in April.

Plans call for the project to include changes to the guest rooms, the lobby, the ballroom and the conference center, said Gaela Witter-Jones, director of sales...
 

E-mail timothytresslar@bizjournals.com. Call 222-6900, ext. 119.

http://dayton.bizjournals.com/dayton/stories/2007/03/19/story2.html

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Both from the 3/24/07 DDN:


Wynne: Wright Pat can expect BRAC jobs
By Thomas Gnau
Staff Writer
Saturday, March 24, 2007

KETTERING — BRAC jobs are on the way.

That was Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne's expectation Friday: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base will get the organizations and employees the most recent base-closing process proposed sending its way.

"We have until 2011 to accomplish it all," Wynne said after visiting the newly opened Air Force Claims Service Center at the Kettering Business Park...


Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2390 or tgnau@DaytonDailyNews.com.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/business/2007/03/24/ddn032407wynne.html
Air Force office bringing 100 jobs to Kettering
Single location handles active service members' property claims, which once required 89 offices around the world.
By Thomas Gnau
Staff Writer
Saturday, March 24, 2007

KETTERING — An Air Force office designed to speed claims of damaged or lost property means 100 new jobs at the Kettering Business Park.

Property claims once took some 60 days to resolve, Air Force officials say. Those same claims are now expected to be wrapped up in fewer than 10 days, thanks to the Air Force Claims Service Center the secretary of the Air Force and other officials celebrated Friday...



Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2390 or tgnau@DaytonDailyNews.com.


http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/business/2007/03/24/ddn032407airclaims.html

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From the 4/4/07 DDN:


Sherrod Brown encouraging about base funding
In speech to Dayton Chamber members, senator reassures business leaders that money for BRAC programs will be OK'd.
By Lisa A. Bernard
Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 04, 2007

DAYTON — U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown on Tuesday reassured a group of Dayton business leaders that funding considered critical for carrying out infrastructure projects at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is "going to happen."

Brown was the keynote speaker Tuesday morning at a breakfast sponsored by the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce...


Contact the reporter at (937) 225-7317 or lbernard@DaytonDailyNews.com.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/business/2007/04/03/ddn040407brownchamber.html

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From the 4/19/07 DDN:


Wright-Pat leaders order broad spending cuts
By John Nolan
Staff Writer
Thursday, April 19, 2007

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — Base leadership on Thursday imposed a broad array of spending cuts, as the Air Force seeks to cut internal spending by millions of dollars because of costs of the war on terror and modernizing the fleet of Air Force planes...



Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2242 or jnolan@DaytonDailyNews.com.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/business/2007/04/19/ddn041907wrightpatcutsweb.html

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From the 4/25/07 DDN:


Wright-Pat researchers hope to develop adaptive jet engine
Technology would cut costs by allowing planes to cruise long-range without gulping fuel.
By Jim DeBrosse
Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Wright-Patterson's Air Force Research Laboratory is hoping to birth the next generation of jet engine that can sip fuel at cruising speeds over long distances yet pack the power for quick takeoffs, better maneuverability and high-speed pursuit...


http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/04/25/ddn042507advent.html

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From the 4/28/07 DDN:


House budget includes $5M for Wright-Pat area
But GOP proposal eliminates $2.5 million Strickland budgeted for improvements at Dayton airport.
By William Hershey
Staff Writer
Saturday, April 28, 2007

COLUMBUS — — The House Republican version of the proposed two-year state budget includes $5 million to help create jobs on and around Wright-Patterson Air Force Base that wasn't included in Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland's budget.

However, the House GOP budget eliminates $2.5 million that was in Strickland's budget for improvements at Dayton International Airport.

House Republicans rolled out details of their $52.1 billion budget Friday...


http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/04/27/ddn042807budget.html

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From the 5/1/07 DDN:


Wright-Pat's impact at $3.3 billion
Base officials say the total includes $1.2 billion in payroll for military and civilian employees for fiscal 2006.
By John Nolan
Staff writer
Tuesday, May 01, 2007

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — Wright-Patterson Air Force Base says it had an economic impact of $3.3 billion last year, including payroll, payments to contractors, and indirect jobs off base that the Air Force attributes to the base's presence. That total included $1.2 billion in payroll, nearly $1.4 billion in payments to contractors and for materials and supplies, and $747.2 million in indirect jobs including businesses, hotels, real estate professionals and others whose livelihoods are supported by the base's presence...


Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2242 or jnolan@DaytonDaily News.com.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/business/2007/04/30/ddn050107wpafbimpact.html

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From the 5/6/07 DDN:


Small, local businesses get big contracts with Air Force lab
Last year, more than 50 percent of Air Force Research Laboratory contracts involved small business. For local firms, that equals deals worth $158.9 million.
By John Nolan
Staff Writer
Sunday, May 06, 2007

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — During 45 years of existence as a government contractor, Universal Technology Corp. has grown from two employees to 200.

Its annual revenues reached $44 million last year, more than triple the $14 million of a decade earlier. The Beavercreek-based company provides engineering, research and analysis services to the Air Force Research Laboratory, primarily at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base but also at the Kirtland base in New Mexico and the Peterson base at Colorado Springs, Colo...


Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2242 or jnolan@DaytonDailyNews.com.


http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/business/2007/05/04/ddn050607afsmallbiz.html

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From the 5/14/07 Dayton Business Journal:


Base readies for BRAC projects, construction
Wright-Patt to gain about 1,100 positions
Dayton Business Journal - May 11, 2007
by Joe Cogliano II
DBJ Contributor
 
The effort to reorganize national defense will pump some big bucks into construction projects in the region during the next few years.

Locally, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has a slew of projects coming down the pike, including $332 million in construction covering about a million square feet set to start this fall...


Joe Cogliano II is a frequent contributor to the Dayton Business Journal. Reach him at joecog2@sbcglobal.net.

http://dayton.bizjournals.com/dayton/stories/2007/05/14/focus2.html

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From the 5/17/07 DDN:


Leaders, educators sculpting work-force plan
Area responding to possible openings at Wright-Pat in engineering, physics, medical research, aerospace technology.
By John Nolan
Staff Writer
Thursday, May 17, 2007

The prospect of high-tech research jobs needing to be filled when they relocate to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base between 2009 and 2011 is driving a regional focus on expanding training for people who could fill those positions...


Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2242 or jnolan@DaytonDailyNews.com.



http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/business/2007/05/17/ddn051707newjobs.html

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From the 5/24/07 Fairborn Daily Herald:


Strengthening relationships
Wright-Patt, surrounding community meet to discuss base activities
By MARY BETH LEHMAN
Staff Writer

WPAFB - A long fence separates Wright-Patterson Air Force Base from the communities around it, but leaders at the base are doing all they can to ensure the fence is not too divisive.

"There's been a real effort from leaders at Wright-Patt to better educate and better inform the public about what happens in the fence," said Phil Houston, Greene County Department of Development director...


http://www.fairborndailyherald.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=125211&TM=60716.09

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From the 5/25/07 DDN:


Senate, House approve bill that includes BRAC funds
Decision means jobs and high-profile missions will be headed to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
By By Jessica Wehrman
Staff Writer
Friday, May 25, 2007

WASHINGTON — The House and Senate on Thursday passed a supplemental funding bill that includes $3.1 billion to implement the 2005 federal base closure and realignment decisions — decisions that would bring a wealth of jobs and high-profile missions to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

The bill, which was split into a domestic spending vote and an Iraq war vote, had been controversial because it included a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq, and the White House vetoed an initial version of it. Democrats withdrew the timetable, enabling it to pass before Congress began its Memorial Day recess...


http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/business/2007/05/25/ddn052507brac.html

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From the 6/1/07 WPAFB Skywriter:


Base officials respond to Riverside city income tax concerns
by Capt. Lanourra Phillips
88th ABW Office of the Judge Advocate
June 1, 2007

The city of Riverside recently contacted numerous contractors and contractor employees working on Wright-Patterson AFB in Area B regarding the payment of a 1 percent municipal income tax, which the city believes it is entitled to, following a 1994 merger of two political subdivisions.

The city of Riverside has been attempting to collect these municipal taxes since 1997. Riverside first approached Wright-Patterson AFB April 28, 1997 in a letter to the then Aeronautical Systems Center commander requesting his assistance with the collection of the municipal taxes...


http://www.skywrighter.com/news/2007/0601/1incometax.asp

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From the 6/2/07 DDN:


SCLC sharpens focus on Wright-Pat
Group accuses base of discriminatory practices, says it will stage protests.
By Ryan Justin Fox
Staff Writer
Saturday, June 02, 2007

JEFFERSON TWP., Montgomery County — Leaders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference said Friday that the organization will intensify its campaign against perceived discrimination at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

Local and national SCLC officials said they will take the fight against alleged employment practices at the base to every federal level while holding traditional nonviolent protests...


http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/06/02/ddn060207sclcwpafb.html

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From the 6/3/07 DDN:


Wright-Pat prepares to take on new Air Force programs
Base relocation legislation is expected to bring about 1,100 jobs to Wright-Pat.
By John Nolan
Staff Writer
Sunday, June 03, 2007

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — The first physical signs of the planned relocation of military research programs to Wright-Patterson from other Air Force bases should appear this fall.

Base officials expect a contract to be awarded in September for $19 million in infrastructure work to prepare for a massive construction project starting in 2008 that will accommodate programs coming here by 2011. The Army Corps of Engineers plans to advertise for bids on the contract this month on the Federal Business Opportunities Web site (www.fedbizopps.gov). Military officials will review the bids and choose a winner...


Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2242 or jnolan@DaytonDailyNews.com.



http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/oh/story/news/business/2007/06/03/ddn060307brac.html

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From the 6/6/07 DDN:


Group, Congress to examine Riverside's new tax
Coalition concerned with legality, difficulty of city's income tax on WPAFB contractors, employees.
By John Nolan
Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 06, 2007

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — The Dayton Development Coalition and members of Congress are discussing whether an income tax that Riverside has begun imposing on some Wright-Patterson Air Force Base contractors and their employees is legal.

The coalition is working to encourage government contractors who now serve military bases in Arizona, Texas and other states to move to Wright-Patterson along with aerospace medicine and other research programs that are to be relocated by 2011 under the nation's 2005 base realignment and closure decisions...



Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2242 or jnolan@DaytonDailyNews.com.


http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/business/2007/06/06/ddn060607wpafbtax.html

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Both from the 6/12/07 DDN:


Senate approves $2 million to boost jobs at or near Wright-Pat
By William Hershey
Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

COLUMBUS — The Senate today is expected to give unanimous approval to a $52.4 billion, two-year state budget that includes an extra $2 million to help encourage the relocation of jobs to the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base area.

The extra money was in an amendment added Tuesday in the Finance Committee before the committee, without dissent, voted to send the budget to the full Senate...


Contact this reporter at (614) 224-1608 or whershey@DaytonDailyNews.com.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/06/12/ddn061207senateweb.html
DeWine wants to ban Riverside's tax on civilian base workers
The Fairborn Republican plans to attach legislation to the state budget.
By William Hershey
Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

COLUMBUS — — State Rep. Kevin DeWine, R-Fairborn, said Monday he is drafting legislation that would effectively ban the municipal income tax the city of Riverside is imposing on some civilian employees who work at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

"I want to make sure all employees, whether in uniform or civilian or contractors, are treated equally on the base as it relates to application of municipal income tax," DeWine said...


http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/06/12/ddn061207tax.html

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From the 6/15/07 DDN:


Some civilian workers to lose jobs at WPAFB
By Thomas Gnau
Staff Writer
Friday, June 15, 2007

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base announced Friday that reduction-in-force notices have been issued to 96 civilian employees.

The letters issued include 33 notices of separation, 21 notices of change to a lower grade or band and 42 reassignment notices, the base said.

The effective date for the notices is Oct. 1...


Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2390 or tgnau@DaytonDailyNews.com.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/oh/story/news/business/2007/06/15/ddn061507baseweb.html

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From the 6/26/07 DDN:


DeWine seeks ban on Riverside's Wright-Pat tax
By William Hershey and John Nolan
Staff Writers
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

COLUMBUS — A provision that would effectively ban the city of Riverside from imposing its 1.5 percent municipal income tax on civilian employees at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base who are not Riverside residents is now part of the proposed state budget...


Contact this reporter at (614) 224-1608 or whershey@DaytonDailyNews.com.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/06/26/ddn062607riversideweb.html

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All from the 6/27/07 DDN:


WPAFB tax ban added to budget
Riverside's income tax on civilian employees at Wright-Pat facing ban.
By William Hershey and John Nolan
Staff Writers
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

A provision that would effectively ban the city of Riverside from imposing its 1.5 percent municipal income tax on civilian employees at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base who are not Riverside residents is now part of the proposed state budget...



Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2242 or jnolan@DaytonDailyNews.com.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/business/2007/06/27/ddn062707riverside.html
Riverside asks Strickland to continue Wright-Pat tax
By John Nolan
Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

RIVERSIDE — The city is asking Gov. Ted Strickland to allow Riverside to continue imposing its income tax on civilian employees at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, despite a lawmaker's legislative attempt to end the tax...


Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2242 or jnolan@DaytonDailyNews.com.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/06/27/ddn062707riversideweb.html
Provision aimed at Riverside tax could hit elsewhere
Like Riverside, Whitehall imposes an income tax on civilian employees at a military base.
By John Nolan and William Hershey
Staff Writers
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

State Rep. Kevin DeWine of Fairborn said Tuesday that wording he added to the state budget was intended to block the income tax that Riverside began imposing this spring on civilian employees at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base...


Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2242 or jnolan@DaytonDailyNews.com.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/business/2007/06/27/ddn062707riversidebiz.html