This is not a good time to be a governor. On top of their budget woes, the federal government continues to encroach on states’ rights. . . .

The maximum hours question returned to the United States Supreme Court three years later in Muller v. Oregon with this twist--Oregon's maximum hour statute applied only to women. . . .

This morning’s Matier & Ross column in the San Francisco Chronicle has the interesting little tidbit: an upcoming $20 million independent expenditure meant to put a serious dent in Meg Whitman’s gubernatorial campaign. . . .

In the first-ever analysis of the impacts of charter school attendance on educational attainment, educational researchers Kevin Booker and Brian Gill of Mathematica Policy Research, Tim R. Sass of Florida State University, and Ron Zimmer of Michigan State University find that attending charter high schools is associated with higher graduation rates and college attendance. . . .