Why is the minipage indented on the left?
This avoids the problem, I think:
%-------------------------------------------------------------------
% PACKAGES AND OTHER DOCUMENT CONFIGURATIONS
%-------------------------------------------------------------------
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{array, xcolor, lipsum, bibentry}
\usepackage[
paper=letterpaper,
includefoot, % Uncomment to put page number above margin
marginparwidth=1in, % Length of section titles
marginparsep=.05in, % Space between titles and text
margin=1in, % 1 inch margins
]{geometry}
\usepackage{showframe}
% Shrink spacing around section headings
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat*{\section}{\large\bfseries}
\titlespacing\section{0pt}{12pt plus 4pt minus 2pt}{0pt plus 2pt minus 2pt}
% Break tables across pages
\usepackage{supertabular}
% Set column sizes and color
\definecolor{lightgray}{gray}{0.8}
\newcolumntype{L}{>{\raggedleft}p{0.1225\textwidth}}
\newcolumntype{R}{p{0.81\textwidth}}
\newcolumntype{X}{>{\raggedleft}p{0.05\textwidth}}
\newcolumntype{Y}{p{0.9\textwidth}}
% Commands to simplify starting a table
\newcommand\VRule{\color{lightgray}\vrule width 0.5pt}
\newcommand\smalltab{\begin{supertabular}{L!{\VRule}R}}
\newcommand\medtab{\begin{supertabular}{X!{\VRule}Y}}
\newcommand\longtab{\begin{supertabular}{L!{\VRule}R}}
\begin{document}
%-------------------------------------------------------------------
% NAME AND CONTACT INFO
%-------------------------------------------------------------------
\hspace*{-\parindent}%
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.65\textwidth}
\begin{flushleft}
\Huge{\textsc{Here is my name\\}}
\Large{Curriculum Vitae}
\end{flushleft}
\end{minipage}%
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.35\textwidth}
\small{Street Address\\
City, State 12345\\
[email protected]\\
www.website.com\\
1-555-555-5551}
\end{minipage}
%-------------------------------------------------------------------
% EDUCATION
%-------------------------------------------------------------------
\section*{Education}
\smalltab
2011--present & PhD in Stuff, Very Awesome School.\\[2.5pt]
2009--2011 & Masters in Stuff, Just OK School.\\[2.5pt]
2004--2008 & Bachelors in Things, Relatively Awesome School.\\
\end{supertabular}
\end{document}
Basically, TeX is treating the first minipage as the beginning of a paragraph and indenting it accordingly. Putting in negative space equal to the paragraph indentation fixes the problem:
Use \noindent
:
\noindent
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.65\textwidth}
Thanks Charles Staats