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struggle4progress

(118,273 posts)
Sun Jan 27, 2019, 03:26 AM Jan 2019

Looking forward to return of business

Author: Nelson Garcia
Published: 9:19 PM MST January 26, 2019
Updated: 9:37 PM MST January 26, 2019

LAKEWOOD, Colo. — At Giovanni's Italian Bakery and Cafe, the lunch crowd was healthy before the partial federal government shutdown, according to Manager Cassie Heidemann.

"Kinda crazy. It comes in a huge rush. People are waiting in line. We'll have both registers running," Heidemann said.

Most of their customers came from right next door as Giovanni's sits between the National Park Service Office and Social Security Administration in Lakewood ...

... their busy lunches turned into empty tables during the shutdown ...

https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/restaurant-looking-forward-to-return-of-business-after-shutdown/73-c98b8867-715d-4196-a321-7c3d38c464b4

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Looking forward to return of business (Original Post) struggle4progress Jan 2019 OP
Who was working with no pay struggle4progress Jan 2019 #1
Thanks for this, struggle. Cha Jan 2019 #3
I used to live in Lakewood, Colorado Cha Jan 2019 #2

struggle4progress

(118,273 posts)
1. Who was working with no pay
Sun Jan 27, 2019, 03:30 AM
Jan 2019

By Caroline Kelly
Updated 7:58 PM ET, Sat January 26, 2019

... This week, some TSA agents at Hawaii airports started to resign, Hawaii News Now reported. The newspaper reported at least one screener lived out of their car at the airport during the work week and would travel home only once a week to save gas ...

Thousands of active duty US Coast Guard service members did not receive their paycheck last week. "To the best of my knowledge, this marks the first time in our Nation's history that servicemembers in a U.S. Armed Force have not been paid during a lapse in appropriations," Commandant Admiral Karl L. Schultz, the branch's top official, wrote in a statement ...

Some Border Patrol officers have sued the Trump administration over the missing pay ...

"Nearly 90 percent of DHS employees are currently working on essential national security projects and programs without a paycheck," DHS spokesman Tyler Houlton told CNN in a statement. "There is no question that unpaid DHS employees and their families are facing financial constraints and sacrificing greatly" ...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/26/politics/government-unpaid-workers-shutdown/index.html

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Cha

(297,085 posts)
2. I used to live in Lakewood, Colorado
Sun Jan 27, 2019, 03:30 AM
Jan 2019

in the early '90s.

Hope they're ok and getting their business back

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