Joe Courtney: “I would encourage all of my colleagues--as well as anyone listening--it would be helpful to just maybe pick up the phone…”

This is just going to be one of those milestones that our children and grandchildren are going to experience. It’s a big deal.

You’d basically have to tear the plane down to the studs and rebuild it to meet all the survivability, security and communications requirements of Air Force One.

Connecticut farmers have weathered serious crop losses in recent years.

The Interior Department should take the hint and let the thousands of construction workers finish the job.