Update on ‘Move Over’ Laws

Florida police agencies recently stepped up enforcement of the state’s “Move Over” law by setting up sting operations on roadways throughout the Sunshine State, including in a state park where nearly two dozen unsuspecting motorists were ensnared. The Florida sting is ...

Fixing Tickets in Philadelphia

By James J. Baxter Following a federal investigation, two Philadelphia judges pleaded guilty to “fixing tickets.” This isn’t an earth shattering revelation, fixing traffic tickets is a national sport. Cops do it, D.A.s do it, and, as just noted, judges do ...

Some Myths Just Won’t Die

Every few months or so someone (usually a non-member) sends us an email that goes something like this: How can your organization support 65 mph speed limits or even higher? Don’t you know that there’s only so much oil in the ...

Public Private Partnership Abuses

By James J. Baxter The current political rage of “Public Private Partnerships” has shown it’s underbelly in the transportation sector through the cancer of ticket camera installations, privatized parking meters, and toll roads. The potential for corruption and citizen abuse reaches ...

Yet Another Study

By James J. Baxter. This article originally appeared in the Winter 2011 issue of NMA's Driving Freedoms magazine. A recent report in The Wall Street Journal illustrates how public opinion can be misled and manipulated by agenda-driven politics. The Journal is ...

The Chicago Criminal Enterprise

By James J. Baxter The City of Chicago has the well-deserved reputation of being a corrupt and ethically deficient enterprise. This reality is being reinforced by Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s campaign to drown the city in ticket cameras. The Wall Street Journal, in ...

Justice in Massachusetts: Get It Now With One Easy Payment Of $75.00!

By James Baxter, NMA President In the thin air atmosphere of appellate court deliberations it is sometimes difficult for we mere mortals to grasp the logic and rationale of great legal minds. That is unless we get back down in the ...

Off The Rails

By James Baxter, NMA President Rationality, Rule of Law, Equal Treatment, Limited Authority, and the Balance of Power between the branches of government are a sampling of the “rails” that guide our society’s actions. On occasion, often in response to a ...

Not Making The Grade

By James Baxter, NMA President A recent article in Slate Magazine by William Saletan was largely a hatchet job on one Rick Berman, who heads up a lobbying firm that represents all the “bad” industries and evil special interests. The specific ...

The History Of The National Motorists Association

In the Jan/Feb and Mar/Apr 1992 issues of the National Motorists Association News (a forerunner of Driving Freedoms), Jim Baxter wrote his account of the first ten years of the organization that was founded in 1982 to combat the restrictive ...