Virtually every state's higher education system has climbed aboard the distance-learning bandwagon. But their reasons and approaches vary enormously.

Cars have been pushing pedestrians around forever. Pedestrians are starting to push back.

Many drivers are livid about photo-cop systems.

There's a new twist to zoning laws in some Colorado communities: Last year, when the Lakewood city council discovered that five registered sex offenders were living together in a rental home, it passed an emergency amendment to the town code that makes it illegal for a household to include more than one adult convicted of a sexual crime.

Philosophers are always in search of an audience, so they must be thrilled that Albuquerque's public schools are offering a new, if unusual, medium for deep thoughts: teachers' paychecks.