You’ve undoubtedly seen the commercials on Denver TV stations or heard them on radio. The message is pretty clear: “buzzed driving is drunk driving,” say the ads. OK, that’s clear enough. But what is “buzzed driving”? According to researchers, it is driving while your blood alcohol content (BAC) is below
If you have been convicted of a crime in Colorado, you may have realized that it is often difficult to take positive steps forward with your life with the weight of the conviction holding you back. Even being charged with a crime can have a detrimental effect on your life
Acronyms seem to multiply faster and faster every day. While you might LOL at that statement, remember that KISS is a guiding principle in our social media-engulfed culture. However, IRL the acronyms are sometimes easy to figure out and at other times they make us ROFL or SMH. One acronym
Denver has a number of college campuses within its city limits and also within the metro area. The University of Colorado, the Community College of Denver, the University of Denver and many others. On a number of those campuses, this Friday night is going to be one of the biggest
Regular readers know we recently wrote about the increased law enforcement patrols that will be out next week on Halloween. As you probably recall, Denver area cities and counties are going to roll saturation patrols every night from Thursday, October 30, through Sunday, November 2, in hopes of deterring and
A Brown University anthropology professor says that the U.S. legal drinking age should be lowered from its present 21 to 8. Or it could be lowered even a bit more, down to 6 years old, he says. Is he crazy? At first blush, the answer might appear to be a
The marketing of alcoholic beverages takes a variety of approaches, from the naming of Coors Field here in Denver, to music-pounding, high-fiving TV commercials and to print advertisements suggesting that certain drinks can make people more attractive. In fact, those print ads have come under scrutiny recently from researchers who
Remember those days as a teenager when summer vacation stretched ahead for months of glorious fun? It’s a special time in life. Teens are getting their driver’s licenses, going on dates, hanging out with friends but also sometimes experimenting with alcohol. In Colorado, the drinking age is 21, but it’s
Denver parents know that peer pressure can be a powerful motivator in a young person’s life. When parents send their kids off to college, most know that some experimentation is likely to take place in that young adult’s life. According to a new study recently published in the Journal of
Teenage years are an important transition from childhood to adulthood. Teens are often eager to separate themselves from the influence of their parents and form their own opinions and ways of doing things. As many Denver parents know, as teens separate from parental influence, they sometimes succumb to peer pressure
