Author Archives: Jay Butchko
Harrisburg School Van Driver Pleads Guilty To Drugged Driving
The most iconic school transportation vehicle is the yellow school bus. Toddlers point excitedly and mime the motions of the “Wheels on the Bus” song when they see one driving down the road. At the other extremity of childhood, teenagers who are counting the days until they can get their driver’s licenses deride the… Read More »
So, Cannabis Is Schedule III Now
The popular movement to legalize cannabis is decades old, but in the past ten years or so, we have seen a lot of legal acrobatics whereby cannabis isn’t illegal, but where it isn’t legal, either. There have been scenarios where you can smoke weed in Philadelphia but not in Pennsylvania, where Colorado is 420… Read More »
What Does The Trippy New Executive Order Mean For Pennsylvania Drug Cases?
Health fads come and go quickly. Keep eating your favorite foods, and eventually a self-proclaimed expert will claim that they are the secret to a long and healthy life. First, it was vegan diets, and now being a carnivore is all the rage. Eventually Cheez Wiz will have its moment; everyone else will figure… Read More »
Code Enforcement Officer Faces Charges For Impersonating Law Enforcement Officer
Imagine all the perks you would get if people thought you were a cop. If you weren’t a real police officer, you wouldn’t have to do any police work, work 24-hour shifts, or risk your life de-escalating dangerous situations. Instead, people would just hand you free coffee every time you went to Wawa and… Read More »
What If Pennsylvania Is Not The First State Where You Get Accused Of A Sexual Offense?
Anyone with a prior criminal conviction knows that the social stigma lasts well beyond when you have paid off the debts you incurred to pay your criminal fines and long after your last meeting with your probation officer. Every time you fill out a job application, your heart sinks whenever you must answer the… Read More »
Is There Screen Time In Prison?
You don’t have to click on your favorite social media app very many times before you end up in a feedback loop about how screen time is ruining society. There is a line of thinking, quite prominent on online content platforms, about how electronic devices and the noisy, fast-paced videos they play, are zapping… Read More »
Western Pennsylvania Man Gets Felony Charges For Following Chatbot’s Clanker-Brained Relationship Advice
Love has always been difficult, since long before the greeting card companies commercialized Valentine’s Day. Medieval poems in Arabic and Persian tell of lovers dying from sadness upon separation from their beloved; sometimes they simply died of intensity of emotion while their beloved was still present, as if love itself were fatal, regardless of… Read More »
Misbranding A Controlled Substance
Among life’s greatest pleasures is stopping for a meal in one of Pennsylvania’s roadside diners, where every table is stocked with an array of condiments. Everyone has a grumpy uncle who, upon being served the most affordable full breakfast in town, will complain that the ketchup in the glass bottles with the Heinz labels… Read More »
