Anyone who has gone shopping over the past few days has probably noticed the inconvenient new bag tax. In an attempt to raise $ 3.6 million for the city’s budget this year (oh yes, and to help the environment), consumers are now forced to either pay a 5 cent tax on every disposable shopping...
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DC Bag Tax: Unpopular, Recessive, and Annoying
Leave A Child Behind?
In yesterday’s USA Today there was an opinion piece by a VA teacher which described the continuation of poor performance in math. “The panel wants to streamline the K-8 curriculum and increase the number of seventh-graders taking algebra I and high schoolers taking algebra II. The importance of algebra is significant. The panel noted:...
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Virginia Tech Incident
Unless you spent the last 8 hours or so sleeping under a rock with ear plugs and a blindfold, you know at this point that more than two dozen people (last count was around 32, but it varies depending on the news source) were shot dead at Virginia Tech this morning in Blacksburg, VA,...
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