Chester Finn, president of the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute and a former assistant education secretary, who's among those pushing to eliminate school boards, which have become increasingly politicized.
With a deeply divided Democratic caucus and no sign of compromise in sight, Minnesota House Speaker Paul Thissen announced there would be no floor vote on gun control legislation this year.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation providing $24 million to clear the backlog of weapons known to be in the hands of people who purchased them legally but were then disqualified from owning one. The funds will be used to hire 36 additional special agents.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, calling out property owners who are refusing to give the federal government access to their property so that a system of sand dunes can be built to minimize future flooding.
The business and restaurant rating site is now being used to rate an unconventional entity -- prisons. Inmates are reporting about the quality of the food, the friendliness of deputies, and more.
The mortgage interest deduction, widely viewed as a tax break for a broad slice of middle-class America, benefits the residents of some states far more than others, according to a new report by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Trailing in the polls in his bid for reelection and being sharply criticized for the lack of job growth in his state, Gov. Corbett blamed unemployment on workers who could not pass drug tests.
A pension reform bill that would have moved new state workers and teachers into a 401K plan and blocked them from enrolling in the state pension system, failed in the Florida senate. Several Republicans joined the Democratic minority to defeat the measure 22-18.
