With all that is happening in Washington these days, it was easy to miss a smaller headline in yesterday’s news as it is assumingly unrelated to the more pressing issues. But in fact, the event that garnered this secondary headline is not unrelated to our government’s functioning—it just seems that way. This year is an important one; the decennial census is scheduled to kick-off later this spring in the lower 48 states, but the first official person for this round of US censu

With all that is happening in Washington these days, it was easy to miss a smaller headline in today’s news as it is assumingly unrelated to the more pressing issues. But in fact, the event that garnered this secondary headline is not unrelated to our government’s functioning—it just seems that way. This year is an important one; the decennial census is scheduled to kick-off later this spring in the lower 48 states, but the first official person for this round of US census wa