some local headlines

[acroyear]

Airport board raises rates for Dulles Toll Road - washingtonpost.com

Frustrations of married women trying to get IDs at DMV - washingtonpost.com:

It took Earley four visits to the Fairfax/Westfields DMV office to get an ID card. All because her birth certificate didn't have her current name on it and that, according to new state and federal laws, means it doesn't prove that she is a U.S. citizen.

For women in particular, the passage of the Real ID law, which created standardized, federal identification standards in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, has made the process of documenting who they are far more complicated, frustrating and unreasonable.

My wife carries her marriage license (well, a notorized copy) with her every time we leave the country, just in case someone gripes about name A != name B on any of the other documents she has.

Comments

[queenmaggie.livejournal.com]

That's one of the reasons I didn't want to change my name.