When was the last time you saw kids celebrating spring around a May pole? Not in this part of the country, not that I can remember. But that was part of the celebrations at my daughter’s elementary school yesterday here in the District of Columbia. It was supposed to have happened last month, but was […]
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With no fanfare at all, schools in the District of Columbia have been rolling out a program of serving breakfast in classrooms instead of in cafeterias. The idea was piloted in a single elementary school at the beginning of the year. In April it was extended to 11 more schools. Last week, six more were added […]
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The D.C. Council yesterday in voting on the District’s annual budget dumped a proposed “soda tax” of one percent per ounce in favor of levying a six percent sales tax on soft drinks in order to pay for recently approved “Healthy Schools” legislation. What, you might be asking, is the difference between these two approaches to taxing sodas? […]
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