No End Date Set in Code Orange Marathon
More barriers go up that may never come down. Six-day work weeks with 12-hour days are the new norm for those guarding Congress. People in metropolitan New York and the capital are asked to be alert, today, tomorrow, indefinitely into the future.So begins a Code Orange marathon, a three-month or longer stretch of expensive, inconvenient, anxiety-inducing vigilance with no finish line drawn. The government has decided this must be the price of safety from terrorism. [more]