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Another Ticket Camera Success Story

By James Baxter, NMA President The report is in from Baytown, TX, on the results of the city’s red light ticket camera program. The camera proponents are going to be hard pressed to lavish praise on the results: 40 percent increase in total ...

The Rise Of The Ticket Camera “Front Group”

By Jim Baxter, NMA President Recently, groups opposed to the use of ticket cameras have discovered that companies that promote and profit from the installation of ticket camera systems have been setting up fake organizations, or “front groups” to convey the ...

Motorist Activism: Should You Start A Petition Drive?

By Jim Baxter, NMA President Given the frequent disconnect between citizens and their elected representatives, there is often a great deal of difference between what the government is doing and what the public wants the government to do. This is most evident ...

Relearning The Same Lesson, Over And Over And…

By James Baxter, NMA President Having gone through another siege of “unintended acceleration” hyperbole, and with the same outcome (the purported victims had their foot on the gas pedal instead of the brake) it would seem that this subject has been ...

Making Functional Laws Dysfunctional

By Jim Baxter, NMA President There are many traffic laws that function reasonably well---as long as they are not strictly enforced. Enforcing “the letter of the law” can make a reasonable regulation unreasonable. Prior to the passage of the National Maximum Speed ...

Due Process Is A Right, Right?

By James Baxter, NMA President Fighting a traffic ticket isn't fun, at least for most people. You're playing in an arena where the other side has the home field advantage, makes all the rules, owns the referees, and virtually operates without ...

How Do You Feel When You See A Police Car?

By James Baxter, NMA President Recently, as I read the article about the Texas software engineer who flew his plane into an IRS office complex, I was caused me to reflect on the downward spiral of the relationship between the citizenry ...

Due Process For Traffic Ticket Defendants Threatened

By James Baxter, NMA President There’s a random pattern around the country where state and local courts are systematically making it harder and more expensive for ticket recipients to fight traffic tickets. This is an admission by the judiciary and state and ...

Help Decide How NHTSA Spends Your Tax Dollars

By James Baxter, NMA President The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is the federal government's lead agency when it come to safety policies and regulations; including speed limits, DUI laws, cell phone and texting bans, federal subsidies for speed traps and ...

Compulsary Insurance Won’t Work

By Jim Baxter, NMA President One of the hot button issues dominating the health care debate is the proposal that all citizens must buy health insurance. Of course the health insurance industry thinks this is a great idea. ...