St Paul Downtown Airport in trouble

St Paul's Downtown Holman Field is in trouble.
http://www.airnav.com/airport/KSTP

This is Step One...

http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/14328974.htm

The flood wall would prevent the seasonal Mississippi River floods from
shutting down the airport, for up to six months, while the soggy soil firms
back up - according to the head of the Twin Cities Reliever Airports. Small,
lighter planes can use it after the water recedes, but larger planes must
wait.

The Reliever Airport guy threw out a number of $100 million in yearly
economic development that the airport supports, generates, etc, etc. Without
the flood wall, further (business) investment in the airport will suffer -
3M bases their corporate fleet out of Holman, for one example. Air National
Guard wants to pull out of STP if the flooding sittuation isn't addressed.
Many jobs lost their.

Local (800 lb Gorilla) afternoon drive-time radio show took up the fight for
the airport today. AM1500 - Joe Soucheray 2pm - 5:30pm ....Radio station's
call sign? KSTP, same as the downtown airport.


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More bad news for St Paul: The Ford plant will (probably) be closing in '08.