a lldifference. i don t know. ultimately here, something will have to happen, right? i mean, however much the president and congressional republicansre really want to bud a wall between us and another country, presumablpresumably, t have to agree to reopen the government at some point while they wage the fight to achieve that end. right? i mean, log jams do break. stand offs do end. straight lines curve and sometimes there are surprise endings. today after an all night negotiation session, the l.a. teacher strike came to an end. it was a six days, more than 30,000 schoolteachers on strike. thech second largest school district in the country. those teachers are now expected to be back at work tomorrow morning. their strike will end with the teachers having achieved a modest pay raise for themselves but also a start on smaller class sizes. a guarantee for nurses in the schools and librarians in the schools and counselors in the schools.