View from the North 40: A news roundup to start the month

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Things get crazy in the capitol

In the nation’s capitol at the end of November Gavin Clarkson, a New Mexico resident, and his fiancee had their request for a marriage license declined by a clerk in the District of Columbia Courts Marriage Bureau.

The Associated Press reports that after Clarkson requested the license and showed the clerk his up-to-date New Mexico driver’s license, the clerk informed Clarkson he would need his international passport to receive said license.

Apparently the clerk didn’t care how mu...