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ID Card Program Gives Hope to Homeless

By |April 4th, 2007|

A unique ID card program in Fayetteville, NC is helping the homeless find an identity, and in some cases, much more. The program was launched by Officer Tracy Swinton of the Fayetteville Police Department in 2005. Swinton realized that without proper identification, the city’s homeless men and women are essentially anonymous. It’s difficult for them to get decent jobs, gain acceptance to shelters, enroll in classes, and certainly impossible to open any sort of bank account. But since the program’s inception, members of Fayetteville’s homeless community have used their ID cards to achieve all of those things.

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Introducing the Junk Food ID Card

By |March 21st, 2007|

Since the dawn of time, schools have been havens for junk food. With hallways illuminated by the welcoming glow of vending machines, and lunch rooms serving up burgers and fries with reckless abandon, the nutritional value of a meal at school is rivaled only by that of dinner at 7-Eleven. In the case of my elementary school, we even had the infamous “Barquito,” a soggy Mexican pizza curiously served within a plastic bag.

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Introducing the Junk Food ID Card

By |March 21st, 2007|

Since the dawn of time, schools have been havens for junk food. With hallways illuminated by the welcoming glow of vending machines, and lunch rooms serving up burgers and fries with reckless abandon, the nutritional value of a meal at school is rivaled only by that of dinner at 7-Eleven. In the case of my elementary school, we even had the infamous “Barquito,” a soggy Mexican pizza curiously served within a plastic bag.

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ID Issues – Do Driver’s Licenses need Photos?

By |March 20th, 2007|

We're all accustomed to the DMV - waiting in line, filling out endless forms, the people in line who can't seem to read the signs and obey the rules, the curt  employees...and the really, really, really bad photos that always seem to end up on our state-issued IDs. It seems that they're an inevitable part of life - birth, death, taxes and the crummy license photo.
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Background Check Required for Elementary School Visitors

By |February 23rd, 2007|

ID badges have been commonplace for school visitors for years - but unlike the laminated "VISITOR" squares printed on the construction paper of the past, many schools have adopted high-tech badge policies which require bar codes, visitor names, and sometimes even photos. A Cincinnati area school district has announced that it's taking it one step further.
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Venezuela Issues First Refugee ID Card

By |February 21st, 2007|

Years of warlords, civil strife and drug trafficking in Colombia have brought thousands of refugees into neighboring Venezuela - over 200,000 in the past eight years. While only 20 of these are recognized as legitimate refugees, Venezuela has recently instituted an ID card program to protect those who have requested asylum.
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Iraqi Problem Solved? Yes, with Biometric IDs…

By |February 14th, 2007|

The United States' involvement in Iraq is one of the most hotly debated domestic issues today. With such divisive opinions and harsh reactions to policies and troop movements, even the most inane details are highly debated topics. One current issue is President George W. Bush's initiative to send over 20,000 new troops to Iraq in a "surge" that defense experts say could help amend current problems. Predictably, the issue is split down party lines, with most Republicans supporting the surge and most Democrats opposing it. Democratic congressmen have gone so far as to draft a non-binding resolution opposing President Bush's proposed troop increase. The House of Representatives is debating the issue this week in what is predicted to be one of the most heated and emotional debates to take place in the Capitol.
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