Tim Trott’s Blog

Tomorrow Barack Obama will take the oath of office as President. That he is the first African-American President is epic history. That he takes the oath the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. Day adds a bittersweet quality to that history. That he is the visionary who can inspire our fractured nation goes without saying. [...]

Joe Carroll, Chester County District Attorney , has issued a press release about the unacceptable state of affairs in Coatesville, Chester County’s largest city. Plagued by violence, drugs, unemployment, poverty, an ineffective city government and a general neglect from the rest of our affluent county, Coatesville has, according to Carroll, reached a crisis point. To [...]

That’s right sportsfans, Sir Charles, The Round Mound of Rebound, was arrested early New Year’s Eve morning in Scottsdale, Arizona, charged with DUI. The 45 year old former Sixers star was stopped by the police after allegedly running a stop sign. He failed field sobriety tests and refused a field breath test, but did agree [...]

When you got your driver’s license, and each time you renew it, you give the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania your consent that you will submit to chemical testing for the purposes of a DUI investigation. You probably never realized that, but it’s true. This is called, rather obviously, the Implied Consent Law.
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