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First amendment rights. superintendent coust now says the district will not require teachers to sign, but he will continue to distribute the pledge in order to follow a law that's still on the books. a pennsylvania handyman tried to protest a $25 parking ticket by paying it in pennies. town officials said federal law banned pennies as legal tender for transactions over 25 cents. turns out that law no longer exists. justin green who ended up paying the ticket with mostly paper money said they were enforcing a law that's been vetoed for years. what other laws are there like that? town official...

First amendment rights. superintendent coust now says the district will not require teachers to sign, but he will continue to distribute the pledge in order to follow a law that's still on the books. a pennsylvania handyman tried to protest a $25 parking ticket by paying it in pennies. town officials said federal law banned pennies as legal tender for transactions over 25 cents. turns out that law no longer exists. justin green who ended up paying the ticket with mostly paper money said they were enforcing a law that's been vetoed for years. what other laws are there like that? town official...

Matt gutman, abc news, new orleans. a new york judge is refusing to release secret grand jury records in the police choke hold death of eric garner. activists say the public has the right to know why jurors refused to indict the police officer who was caught on camera putting garner in an apparent choke-hold during an arrest last july. the judge said he did not hear one valid reason to make secret information public. just in time for spring, mortgage rates are remaining very low. the next few months are the peak home buying season. the fed signalled interest rates will rise later this year...

So the two blue peaks are where government has had to pump in unrestricted dollars to keep the highway trust fund solvent. you have two senators corken and murphy have come together to proposal raising the gas tax to use that money for fix up our infrastructure, something else we have talked about on this show, so there is dialogue. will it happen? probably not. it's the most sensible thing in the world. gas prices come down this far and the average household saved $750 a year from this drop in gas prices. >> our infrastructure is desperately in need. >> you can fix the infrastructure and retu...

Back to 3.70? >> not soon. supply is growing quickly. demand is growing slowly. you have a year or two of that. there are proposals around to have an accordion gas tax where gas prices are higher when gas prices are lower and lower when gas prices are higher. remember as wonderful a thing as low gas prices are, it encourages people to go back to buying suvs and other gas guzzling cars because they pay less for gas. >> huge cars. all right. thank you. >> like your truck. >> no. a pickup truck is different, right? >> it's different. >> right. >> sort of. >> speaking of oil -- >> you should talk....