"It's the race to the trough," said Grover Whitehurst (pictured), a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. "They need money and the only way to get it is to compete for federal funds and the ...

At Phoenix Raceway, the forecast for Friday was ominous with showers predicted the whole day, “On Friday, a strong upper-level trough is forecasted to be over Southern California & Western ...

Too many other states are more aggressive about reform and present more compelling arguments in what many people now call the “Race to the Trough.” If and when our Legislature ever gets around ...