As shutdown drags on, an icon of Christmas cheer went dark, some parks close
WASHINGTON — The lights were not twinkling. The toy trains were not whirring. Even the nearby bathrooms were locked.The national Christmas tree, symbol of a country’s seasonal cheer, instead stood as an icon of a government in paralysis, as the partial shutdown stretched into the holiday with an array of federal services frozen, some 800,000 public servants either idled or about to be and the disruption to the broader public bound to grow when the quiet spell ends later this […]
