States brace for impact of government shutdown

Already, Arizona and Utah said

to keep open their national parks, fearing the impact on tourism if they closed.

In Massachusetts, Democratic Gov. Maura Healey’s administration said it’s working with state agencies to “mitigate” the short-term effects of a shutdown in a state with 29,000 federal employees and more than one million residents with access to food stamps.

“Unfortunately, we’ve had practice at this over…