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Check this out. The State Department’s new proposed Biographical Questionnaire that some passport applicants will have to fill out will include all addresses since birth; lifetime employment history including employers’ and supervisors names, addresses, and telephone numbers; personal details of all siblings; mother’s address one year prior to your birth; any “religious ceremony” around the time of birth; and a variety of other information.
This information will not be mandatory for all applicants, only for “some applicants,” according to the Federal Register. But the criteria has not been disclosed.
Seriously — what the hell? This is the USA, not Syria or Myanmar.
while this is a national issue, I feel is effects commerce on a local level, therefore I intend to contact my local representatives about this.
(Source: journalofajournalist)
Detroit has been ordered to close half the city’s public schools and consolidate students as part of an emergency plan that would eliminate the district’s $327 million deficit by 2014. The plan also means that class sizes in Detroit will jump to 60 students per class.
(Source: cbsnews.com)
Mildly terrifying. (via WaPo)
We encourage voting!
Civic duty, check.
(via theatlantic)
The vast majority of Americans feel it is better for some students to go to community college instead of a four-year school, according to a new poll by The Associated Press and Stanford University released Tuesday.
Respondents rated community colleges as excellent or good at nearly the same rate as four-year schools, showing Americans are generally pleased with two-year colleges. Seventy-one percent said it’s sometimes better for students to pursue a diploma or certificate from a two-year school than aim to enter a four-year college.
» via Associated Press
Bloggers crying foul over Philly business tax (via transparentcommunity)
Tax mongers


