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Insanity, they say, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That makes license suspension for DWI pretty crazy. Ronnie Lee Welch is today’s example. Recently he was charged with his 16th DWI in Gaston County. The judge, fed up with punishments that weren’t having effect, decided to stop the …
Last Thanksgiving Phoenix motorists dodged a couple of the most lethal bullets out there: wrong-way drivers. Police arrested two drivers who were headed the wrong way down the road in the wee hours. One, a woman, was arrested for Extreme DUI, which in Arizona means her blood alcohol concentration (BAC) was above 1.5, about twice …
Last Friday a few hundred lights were lit in Raleigh – 431, to be exact, marking the number of people who died as a result of impaired driving in the state. The lights are lit every year during the tree-lighting ceremony on the Capitol grounds. The Governor’s Highway Safety Program and Mothers Against Drunk Driving …
State, local and federal law enforcement officials are again banding together for a common purpose: to rid the state of impaired driving between now and the end of the year. It’s the annual Arizona DUI enforcement campaign launch. Yesterday these officials gathered at the state Capitol to officially announce the launch. The campaigns involve both …
No one had a bad word to say about Daniel Conaway, a taxi driver known by south Scottsdale bar patrons as Dan Cab. Every night he plied the streets, making sure that drinkers got home safely after a night out. Friends said it was what he enjoyed doing. Last October 23, life took a tragic …
It’s a strange little holiday. It commemorates nothing. There’s no mention of it in the news, and no stores have sales in its honor. No one ever wishes anyone happy returns of this particular day. Yet a great deal of alcohol gets drunk – and a great deal of people get drunk – on this …
One of the election battles that was overshadowed by the presidential results this November was marijuana legalization. In the past few years a number of states have legalized marijuana for recreational use, beginning with Colorado and Washington in 2012. On this election day Arizona had its chance, but its citizens voted against legalization, by about …
There’s a lot of data flying around. A lot more data than there are people making sense of it. Recently the website 247wallst.com decided to interpret some data from County Health Rankings & Roadmaps to find what it termed the “drunkest” city in each state of the US. It makes a good headline, and gets …
