A few months ago, Doris Stoehr got the good news: The city of Las Vegas was finally going to install that crosswalk she’d been begging for.
Road Warrior
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Today’s theme is enforcement. As in force. As in your government is going to force you to do, or not to do, certain things.
Let’s get the answers out of the way first.
In the last three decades, there has been a massive push across the nation to toughen laws against drinking and driving.
To make sense of the world, we must slice it up. We must categorize the parts. We put them in their place.
The program, a nonprofit under the direction of the National Auto Body Council, is called Recycled Rides and has gone national. It has donated scores of cars over the years.
All we want is for things to work like they’re supposed to, you know?
It can be confusing out there on the road, getting bombarded with traffic lights and signs and cones and those dudes with the flags and the smoke pouring out of that old VW bug in front of you and the weaving big rig to your right, which makes you think of that video on YouTube where a rig jacknifed and smashed into things.