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Retired Air Force General To Defend Mass. Military Bases From Budget Cuts

Eric Haynes / Governor’s Office
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Eric Haynes / Governor’s Office

A retired Air Force Brigadier  General, Donald Quenneville is going to be managing  the efforts in Massachusetts to protect the state’s defense sector from federal budget cuts.  Quenneville, who is a native of South Hadley,  has  been hired as executive director of  the Military Asset and Security Strategy Task Force.  He  spoke with WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief, Paul Tuthill.

Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.