While we are only just approaching October, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas for the charter school movement. Since the documentary Waiting for Superman opened in select theaters last week, a cast of notables have announced a cascade of donations and investment pledges for charters, and it looks it’s just the beginning of this holiday season.

Christmas is not coming early this year for the U.S. Postal Service, after regulators denied a request Thursday that would have raised the price of a first-class stamp by 2 cents, to 46 cents.

The Federal Reserve has 50 new rules to write, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has 44 new rules to write. The Securities and Exchange Commission has 100 rules and 20 studies on its plate. And Treasury has two new agencies and an oversight council to set up.

States will have to dig deeper into their already empty coffers next year in order to pay for rising Medicaid costs.

The economy grew at a slightly faster pace in the second quarter than previously expected.

The economy grew at a slightly faster pace in the second quarter than previously expected.

Elizabeth Warren, the newly appointed adviser to help get the Consumer Financial Protection bureau up and running, says consolidation of financial regulation will be beneficial to both banks and their customers.

Congress has passed a measure to fund the federal government another two months, its last major legislative action before shutting down and returning to the campaign trail for the Nov. 2 elections.

In these dog days of our Great Recession, no one is feeling especially lenient toward taxpayer-funded fat cats. But what if that „fat cat” isn’t some Wall Street banker (most of whom have paid back government loans with interest) but rather the retired small-town city manager in Northern California living on $261,000 or the 40-year-old former New York City cop who gets to collect $100,000 a year for the rest of his life?

Suspicions confirmed: Homeowners in the Northeast pay the highest property taxes in the nation.

The Senate on Wednesday passed a measure to fund the federal government another two months, the last major legislative action before lawmakers shut down and return to the campaign trail for the Nov. 2 elections.

The Senate on Wednesday passed a measure to fund the federal government another two months, the last major legislative action before lawmakers shut down and return to the campaign trail for the Nov. 2 elections.

The House of Representatives approved legislation Wednesday designed to combat the manipulation of currency by China that results in unfavorable trade conditions for the United States.

State legislatures will be in a high-stakes tug-of-war with both voters and industry at the ballot box this November.

The Environmental Protection Agency has only recently had a face. That face has taken the form of Lisa Jackson — the first African-American EPA administrator, appointed by Barack Obama in 2009. The landmark appointment caused a media stir, not for her race, but for the clean break with the recent past EPA administrators that her appointment represented.

The big draw at the Broome County Forum Theater in Binghamton, NY this September wasn’t the usual fare of pro-wrestling matches, circus performances, or headliners like Rob Zombie. It was the sight of locals testifying before the Environmental Protection Agency. Two by two, neighbors stepped forward to argue for and against a controversial drilling technique called horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.