View from the control tower

Well, to be honest, we never really left. But for the moment, the U.S. government is officially back open for business. At least until ...

Well, it's not quite that bad . . . not yet, anyway. As I'm typing this we are nearing the end of day 23 of the partial shutdown ...

All I'm going to say here is that this is one heck of a way to start the new year.