Tag: Government Shutdown
Last week we brought you the sad news that despite the millions and millions of miles between it and the Capitol Building, the Mars Curiosity rover couldn’t be saved from the federal shutdown, and is currently operating on standby. Fortunately, there’s hope for our Mars efforts yet: the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution probe (MAVEN), which […]
For those federal employees deemed inessential, who have been sitting on their hands at home with nothing to do for the past few days, here’s some possible help: Unfurlough.us, a new site where employers can post short-term freelance jobs available for furloughed governmental workers, and where furloughed employees can post their skill sets. Right now, […]
Life in NYC during the federal government shutdown has felt mostly like business as usual, but a few things have changed. The most widely felt effect may be the closing of national parks and monuments, meaning New Yorkers and visitors can’t visit the Governors Island National Monument, Hamilton Grange, or, most notably, the Statue of […]
Fox News published a story on its website Monday about the government shutdown that reeks of The Onion. “How to visit national parks during the partial gov’t shutdown,” reads the headline. And then they go there: National parks were not exempt from the government shutdown but that does not mean you can’t ‘visit’ the nation’s […]
It’s 2:23pm and two tourists stand outside a non-descript building in Philadelphia, happily photographing each other with their new collectible coins in hand. On this gorgeous fall day there are plenty of visitors (mostly foreign ones) shuffling around one of the most uninspiring tourist attractions on planet earth: the U.S. Mint. Yes, even on a […]
You may be aware that NASA is one of the federal agencies being affected by the government shutdown; 18,000 workers, 97% of NASA’s employees, will not be reporting to work until Congress works out a solution. But perhaps the most notable furlough isn’t even a human: the Curiosity rover, all the way up on Mars, […]
