Drinking

Too much typing, too little action. We can sit here online and get all riled up behind our keyboards, composing a mile a minute about our feelings concerning drunk driving in Montana, thinking "hey, I'm doing something" but the truth is, the whole online warrior tactic hasn't changed a thing.

31 year-old Robert Aaron Zunick’s Monday and Monday night was spent drinking and he ended up the next morning in a ditch after driving his Jeep Cherokee erratically and placing several other drivers at risk near Lolo. I spoke with Deputy Missoula County Attorney Shaun Donovan about the incident on Wednesday afternoon. That interview is attached.

  Montana has a drinking problem. On average, Americans drink two and half gallons of alcohol a year, this according to the World Health Organization. Safe to say that the Big Sky Country is well beyond that limit as we were one of the only states to have not one, but two towns in the "Drunkest Cities" in the nation survey according to Mainstreet.com. Read