Public housing residents should be able to have deadbolts on their doors and guns in their apartments even though local housing officials disagree, said Ben Carson, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Carson made the comments in the wake of two high-profile homicides in multi-story public housing apartment buildings in New Hampshire, according to The Union Leader.
The chief goal of the conference committee examining a proposed education bill on Beacon Hill is to dot the Is and cross the Ts on how the state will spend $1.5 billion more into public education over the next seven years. But negotiators also have to decide whether to retain an amendment that requires an analysis of the state law that limits increases in property taxes, the main source of local funding for K-12 education.
