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Targeting DUIs is worthwhile; lower BAC not best approach
Hoping to reduce the terrible toll of drunken driving accidents, the National Transportation Safety Board has suggested lowering the legal limit for blood alcohol while driving to .05, down from the current .08 level. The BAC limit was lowered to .08 from .1 in the early 2000s and the percentage of traffic fatalities involving alcohol fell from about 50 percent to about 35 percent.
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Moniteau understandably shaken over sexual assaults
The arrest of a Moniteau High School teacher on sexual assault charges has understandably shaken the Moniteau community. Jonathan Crum, who had taught 11th-grade English and European history and was an assistant football coach, is accused of being sexually inappropriate with five current and former female students during the past four years.
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| LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |
Intimidation must stop
At the Butler County commissioners’ public meeting of May 8, Commissioner Jim Eckstein’s attorney, Larry Rodgers, publicly attacked both of us, referring to us as “baloney” numerous times, in a crude attempt to discredit our credibility as potential future witnesses in Commissioner Dale Pinkerton’s defamation trial against Eckstein.
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Give views in letters
Due to the Butler County commissioners’ vote to eliminate one of their public comment periods at meetings, county residents should start writing letters to the editor to discuss issues with which the commissioners are dealing.
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Quit hurting county
It’s a shame that it’s gotten to the point where so many letters to the editor are complaints about the Butler County commissioners.
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Gas studies debunked
In response to Joseph McMurry’s May 7 letter, “View fracking report,” I read the report with great interest. I work in the shale industry as well as reside in Butler County.
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BAC change inevitable
Well, it’s happening again. The call is going out to reduce the legal blood alcohol content (BAC) limit yet again — to .05 from .08.
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OTHER VOICES
When Philadelphia doctor Kermit Gosnell was put on trial for murder, activists seized on the case as a symbol of all that is wrong with abortion in America, and used it to call for tighter restrictions and stepped-up oversight. But though Gosnell’s behavior was deplorable, macabre and unquestionably illegal, it was aberrational, not symbolic.
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Scandal trifecta: The loss of trust
WASHINGTON — Leaving aside the seriousness of lawlessness, and the corruption of our civic culture by the professionally pious, this past week has been amusing. There was the spectacle of advocates of an ever-larger regulatory government expressing shock about such government’s large capacity for misbehavior.
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OTHER VOICES
The Obama administration is starting to make extraordinary abuses of power look ordinary. Hard on the heels of the revelation of an IRS crackdown on conservative groups comes news that federal prosecutors orchestrated a roundup of journalists’ telephone records, leaving yet another set of federal boot prints on the First Amendment.
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Truth-shading, arrogance and intrusion
Multiple White House claims about Washington’s handling of the murderous raid in Benghazi stand exposed as false.
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