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Blumenthal Presses For Airport Tower Funding

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal holds a press conference at Brainard Airport in Hartford Monday to announce a legislative effort to preserve funding for contract air traffic control towers, including those in Connecticut slated to close due to sequestration cuts scheduled to go into effect on April 7. Flanking Blumenthal are Tim Larson (left), executive director of Tweed-New Haven Airport, and Connecticut Airport Authority executive director Kevin Dillon (right).
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( CLOE POISSON|cpoisson@courant.com / March 18, 2013 )

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal holds a press conference at Brainard Airport in Hartford Monday to announce a legislative effort to preserve funding for contract air traffic control towers, including those in Connecticut slated to close due to sequestration cuts scheduled to go into effect on April 7. Flanking Blumenthal are Tim Larson (left), executive director of Tweed-New Haven Airport, and Connecticut Airport Authority executive director Kevin Dillon (right).

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