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By Megan Strader Customers trickled into Pablono's Mexican Restaurant to grab something for dinner Monday night, but it was a smaller crowd than they're used to. "We used to have at least 30% of the people from factory and today we didn't get any," say Manager Juan Alejandre. He said he noticed a change as soon as he opened their doors for lunch. Numbers were down, and he fears they'll stay down as long as machinists are spending their lunch and dinners on the picket line.

(WICHITA, Kan.) It's may be a sign of the times, and with temperatures in the triple digits, it couldn't come at a worse time. Thousands of Kansans have had their electricity shut off, unable to pay their bills. Take a look at these numbers from Westar showing the number of homes that had power shut-off. June 2007: 5,500 June 2008: 6,900   Westar Energy says it can't say for sure what's behind the increase, but national studies show that tough economic times are to blame.