Kansas House conservatives work on new budget plan
TOPEKA, Kan.—Conservative Republicans in the Kansas House scrambled Monday to draft a new budget-balancing plan, hoping to block efforts to increase the state's sales tax to sustain education and social services funding.
But Monday, Democrats and moderate Republicans considered allowing a quicker vote on the tax bill. The Senate approved the measure last week, and passage in the House would send it to Democratic Gov. Mark Parkinson, who
Report: CSU is key to a strong California economy
Smart girls were the rule at Kagan's high school
SJC rules against UMass-Lowell in dorm deal
Report: CSU is key to a strong California economy
California State University has released a report that argues the 23-campus system is a key source of job creation and innovation for the state economy.
Smart girls were the rule at Kagan's high school
There were a lot of smart girls at Hunter College High School, but only one of them posed for the yearbook in a judge's robes, quoted a Supreme Court justice and is remembered for playing a tough attorney in an eighth-grade trial.
SJC rules against UMass-Lowell in dorm deal
The state's highest court has ruled that the University of Massachusetts at Lowell violated public construction bidding laws when it awarded a contract for new student housing, even though another contractor had submitted a lower bid.