On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: U.S. Secretary of  Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough visited Alaska last week. The U.S. Army  is proposing to replace Fort Wainwright’s coal-fired heat and power  plant with natural-gas fired boilers installed around the post. And the  former head of Anchorage’s equal opportunity office is suing Mayor Dave  Bronson and his administration in federal court.