  Common sense FAA solution shows how 'crisis' is contrived  May
5, 2013 Williamsport Sun-Gazette  It took a special vote of
Congress, but there actually was a common sense solution from
Washington last week to stop the customer delays and keep
control towers nationwide open, including the one at the
Williamsport Regional Airport in Montoursville.   The move
doesn't guarantee the local tower will remain open after Sept.
30, when it was slated to be closed. It doesn't guarantee that
all traffic delays will end at the nation's airports.  But it
does stop some of this silly, petty nonsense that President
Obama has been trafficking in since the sequester legislation
went into effect. Kudos go, in particular, to Democrats who
joined Republicans in this stab at realism.  You would never
know it from the daily talking point rants of President Obama's
inner circle, but the sequester idea so decried by the
administration was proposed by the administration nearly a year
ago to get around addressing long-overdue spendin