I was not a fan of the smoking bans before I heard this news, but this gives me a new reason to dislike them. An interesting study from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee finds that smoking bans lead to an increase in drunk driving fatalities. App
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Car manufacturers Nissan and Toyota are currently working on technology that could put an end to driving under the influence of alcohol. The technology can detect the presence of alcohol through a person’s skin. These “transdermal alcohol
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I missed this article from about a year ago in the Lawrence newspaper about the MIP and MIC enforcement in Lawrence. Like most cities in Johnson County and elsewhere in Kansas, Lawrence has increased their MIP or MIC enforcement over the last few yea
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The city council of Kansas City, Missouri has entered into a contract with an Arizona company to have red light cameras installed at 12 intersections in KCMO. You can bet that when the money from those starts rolling in they will install more. I woul
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There is another article about the ancillary costs of getting convicted of a DUI at MSN Money Central. You may have seen my earlier blogs here and here on this issue. Apparently, the word is getting out that a DUI is no longer a traffic ticket that a
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The Overland Park Police, in conjuntion with other agencies, ran a DUI checklane on April 18, 2008. 466 vehicles were stopped and 11 people were arrested for DUI. That is about 2.4%. That means 455 vehicles were stopped and delayed for no reason. Int
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Here is a somwhat funny video addressing what a DUI will cost, at least as far as the state of Texas goes. The numbers aren’t far off from Kansas, though, if you lose. I blogged about this before recently. Suffice it to say, a Kansas DUI convic
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