Local air traffic controllers feeling effects of government shutdown

COLUMBUS — Mike Weekley says they’ve tried to ignore the noise. But it hasn’t been easy.As one of 33 fully-trained air traffic controllers serving in Columbus, Weekley and the other men and women working to ensure safe airspace have been working 10-hour days, six days a week.And for the past two weeks, they haven’t been paid.Weekley, who is also the local president for NACA, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, said he and his colleagues have tried to keep wh