Boulder`s NCAR gets 30-day funding reprieve, but shutdown still impacting research
(WorldNews Environment)

A keystone Boulder scientific institution received a glimmer of good news this week in the midst of the federal government shutdown when funding came through from the National Science Foundation, putting on hold emergency plans to make employees choose between a furlough or working for half-pay on a `voluntary` basis. Antonio J. Busalacchi, president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, which manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research for the National Science Foundation, sent a letter to staff on Wednesday to announce that `Phase 2` of its shutdown operating strategy — which outlined a tough choice between furloughs or `voluntary delayed salary` — had...