If you drive a car in the Valley – and odds are you do – then you’ve probably guffawed, gawked, or groaned at at least a few vanity plate whiles waiting oh-so-patiently at red lights or politely ...

Tempering vanity with sanity is a tricky job, but somebody at the Department of Motor Vehicles has to do it. The task falls to the DMV’s vanity plate unit, six rank-and-file employees whose varied ...