July 9, 2007
Posted: 01:56 PM ET

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) — The state museums didn't open Monday. State parks were closed to visitors at the height of the summer tourism season, and many state services were idle because of a government shutdown that kept about 24,000 workers off the job.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/09/pennsylvania.shutdown.ap/index.html

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J.Turchek, Stuart, VA   July 9th, 2007 2:26 pm ET

The question remains, what percentage of the commonwealth’s non-government employee population will even notice?

markcole   July 9th, 2007 4:00 pm ET

Instead of closing down museums and parks they might try closing down the state-run liquor stores. That might get some attention!

Anonymous   July 9th, 2007 4:06 pm ET

The link is not tagged . . .

Larry Tierney Dunedin, FL   July 9th, 2007 4:30 pm ET

As Art Buchwald said, the only people to show up in Washington in a blizzard were Govt. employees.

I wonder why.

BTW Gov. Ridell probably is fasting during this crisis.

Beverly Jones - PA   July 11th, 2007 5:55 pm ET

Yes, I will indeed….Now a resident of PA which i have been most of my life tells me something……….first, they did not mention what resided open……liquor stores and revenues which still brought in monies for the state of Pennsylvania…….. :)

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