It looks like President Obama “pulling the car over” may have made a difference after all. Before the federal government’s funding was cut off at midnight on Friday, negotiators narrowly avoided a shutdown by reaching a deal for the fiscal…

The witching hour approaches. Unless budget negotiators can pull out a last-minute compromise over fiscal year 2011′s spending priorities, at midnight tonight the federal government turns into a pumpkin—a very large, inanimate and inoperable pumpkin.

An agreement could still be reached to avert a  government shutdown, but federal agencies and workers are preparing for the worst.

(This post is excerpted from Title I-Derland, Thompson’s blog on federal K-12 education and was written by Charles Edwards, senior executive director for Thompson’s education products.) The Department of Education has made it very clear that federal funds may not…

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the final hours of our fiscal year 2011 budget negotiations.

In a series of eleventh-hour efforts to avoid the government shutdown, budget negotiators met through the night on Wednesday and President Obama called House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., back to the White House…

Looks like Florida was in the minority in its rejection of high-speed rail funds earlier this year. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood issued a statement yesterday saying that the Department of Transportation had received more than 90 applications for the orphaned…

Government funding runs out Friday, and despite indications that talks over the fiscal year 2011 budget continue, it’s looking more and more likely that a shutdown is unavoidable. Meetings between budget negotiators on the Hill and administration officials continued today,…

The other day, my family and some of our neighbors were essentially attacked by a large number of bees, making us all thrash around wildly as they flew in our faces and tried to nestle in our hair. The buzzing…

(This article is excerpted from an upcoming issue of Thompson’s Local/State Funding Report. The story was written by contributing writer Erika Fitzpatrick.) What impact will government plans to build a new road, construct a new subway line or site a…