Jun 242005
I’m still waiting to see if I’ll be forced to go on an unplanned vacation next week. The Minnesota Legislature still has been unable to reach agreement on a budget and next Thursday looms as the deadline. If no budget is passed by June 30, my department will shut down except for a few essential functions. I remain optimistic that it won’t come to that. Even if it does, I have some vacation time upon which I can draw, but I was hoping to save that for Europe. Politically, I can’t see how a shutdown would be anything but a disaster for both parties. Let’s hope everyone involved can find some common ground. There will be time enough for posturing afterwards.
