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Highway Safety Groups Call for Action on Impaired School Bus Drivers
Read Stateline’s investigation into impaired school bus drivers. Two national highway safety groups are urging government officials to do more to prevent school bus drivers from getting behind the wheel while impaired by alcohol or drugs. Responding to a recent Stateline investigation, the National Safety Council and Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety each are calling for […]
‘Every State Should Be Passing a Law to Deal With This’: The Danger of Impaired School Bus Drivers
Impaired School Bus Drivers: Risky Ride (Second in a series) After school bus driver Carole Ann Etheridge dropped off 31 middle and high school students in Walton County, Georgia, one August morning in 2017, she was summoned to the principal’s office. A worried parent had contacted the school system after getting a text from her […]
Risky Ride: How Impaired School Bus Drivers Endanger Children
A Stateline special report: Schoolchildren in dozens of states have been put in danger by bus drivers allegedly impaired by drugs or alcohol. Still, most states don’t track these cases or know how many school bus drivers have failed random drug or alcohol tests. Part One: School Bus Drivers Put Kids’ Lives at Risk Nationwide, more […]
With School Year Just Begun, 2 Bus Drivers Charged With DUI
Read Stateline’s investigation into impaired school bus drivers. Just weeks into the school year, two school bus drivers have been arrested and charged with driving a bus while impaired. In Billings, Montana, police on Thursday arrested a driver on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs and felony criminal endangerment. He had 28 students on board. […]
Drunken School Bus Drivers Put Kids’ Lives at Risk
Impaired School Bus Drivers: Risky Ride (First in a series) DAYTON, Tenn. — Trista Freeman climbed onto school bus #41 on a chilly morning in November 2018 and knew immediately something was wrong: When the driver greeted her, she smelled alcohol on his breath. Minutes later, the bus began swerving across lanes and blowing through […]
States Consider Ending Right on Red to Address Rising Pedestrian Deaths
SEATTLE — For nearly five decades, drivers in much of the United States have taken for granted a privilege unknown in much of the rest of the world: Arrive at a red light, stop, and if the intersection is clear, turn right even if the signal isn’t green. But as states have seen traffic fatalities […]
Workers Who Legally Use Cannabis Can Still Lose Their Jobs
This story was updated March 2, 2022, to clarify the prospects of a bill in California. Thirty-seven states now allow adults to use marijuana medically, recreationally or both. But in most of those states, people can be fired or denied a job for using cannabis in their free time. Cannabis legalization advocates want states to […]
Top State Stories 2/25
US: 1st-time vaccination rates in the US are at a new low nytimes.com A year after the first coronavirus vaccines became available in the United States, and after months of politicized fights over vaccine mandates, the country’s campaign to vaccinate its population seems to have hit a wall, with very few people showing up for […]
Top State Stories 11/11
US: States challenge Biden’s vaccine mandate for health workers apnews.com A coalition of 10 states sued the federal government to try to block a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers, marking a new front in the resistance by Republican-led states to the pandemic policies of President Joe Biden’s administration. CO: Colorado governor prepares to expand hospital […]
What We’re Reading: Top State Stories 6/27
LA: Louisiana legislators “kick the can” on budget and taxes to next year theadvocate.com Louisiana lawmakers set aside no money for a projected $200 million budget deficit in the fiscal year that ends June 30. They also punted to next year a total overhaul of the tax system. KS: Kansas lawmakers, governor move to avert schools […]