Simple equation

If you are high on anything—other than joyful life—do not get in a car.

In the Friday Colfax Daily Bulletin, a headline read ‘Traffic infraction+drugs=arrest.’ In less than half a year of reading the arrest reports of people thrown in jail or charged in Superior Court, I have lost track of the number of cases that boil down to that equation.

The redundancy is getting a little dull and boring.

So why both reporting on such cases?

Two reasons: one is the simple fact my job is to write about 5,000 characters of news four days a week for the Bulletin. With all large events and sports canceled and...