Congress jammed a lot into its $1.3 trillion spending bill, and we’ll be going through the bill’s 2,000-plus pages for some time. But there was one thing noticeably left out: a last-ditch compromise amendment on health care sponsored by Republican…

California's Lt. Governor rents a desk at a co-working space in San Francisco.

The government must pass a spending bill by mid-December.

Schools in about a dozen states do their annual census of students. At stake is government funding.