We're all clear by now that texting drastically impairs driving... right? But would you believe teens might be making our roads safer by adhering to the converse? Bouncing from Mark J. Perry to USA Today to the University of Michigan…
Posts tagged as “cell phones”
Want some real entitlement mentality? Don't study the French election (which will lead to an orgy of some sort); study the meathead comments on KELO's report on a new push for a local texting-while-driving ban. "Ill thinkkk about not using…
I could almost respect Rep. David Lust. Almost: For the second consecutive year, a bill to make texting while driving illegal in South Dakota was shot down in the State Legislature. South Dakota now remains one of only eight states…
The National Transportation Safety Board is calling for every state "to ban the non-emergency use of portable electronic devices for all drivers." National Highway Transportation Safety Administration data say that distraction-affected crashes kill 3,092 people each year, about a hundred…
Blog neighbor Bob Schwartz brings to my attention South Dakota's remarkable lag in cell phone adoption. Now one might think slow uptake of cell phones here on the prairie would be no surprise. We're a sparsely populated state, and it's…
If we're trying to identify the worst idea of the Legislative session, HB 1221 needs to get in line behind 10% budget cuts, corporate welfare, mandatory anti-abortion lectures, the personal gun mandate, and secession. Nonetheless, the stink of bigger turds…
Senate Bill 71, which would ban texting while driving, passed the South Dakota Senate Thursday, 26&ndash9. I noticed that Senator Angie Buhl (D-15/Sioux Falls) was in the Nay column alongside Senator Russell Olson (R-8/Wentworth). How could the great liberal hope…
I rode herd on Rep. Jim Bolin (R-16/Canton) last week for the seemingly inconsistent and unnecessarily Tea-flavored advocacy of HB 1153, a bill that opposes the adoption of national Common Core history standards for K-12 education. The bill passed House…