Bernie Madoff & Red-Light Cameras
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 4 Comments »By James Baxter, NMA President For ten years there were credible investigators and investors telling federal regulatory agencies that Bernard Madoff could not be doing what he claimed to be doing, and that in all probability that he was running a ...
MADD Pushes To Make DUI Violations A Felony
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 Posted in DUI/DWI | 14 Comments »By James Baxter, NMA President MADD’s current excuse for existing is to make DUI violations a felony, the most serious of criminal convictions. A felon, along with going to prison, loses the right to vote, the right to possess firearms, any ...
FCC Conspires To Protect Ticket Camera Corporation
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 9 Comments »By James Baxter, NMA President The Federal Communications Commission, in the dying days of the Republican administration, has added yet another reason to clear the decks in Washington, D.C. and start all over with a new cast of characters. In a duplicitous, ...
Vengeance, Bad Data Make For Terrible DUI/DWI Policy
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 Posted in DUI/DWI | 1 Comment »By James Baxter, NMA President This editorial by James Baxter is a response to a five part series on drunk driving in Wisconsin that appeared in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel in October. The Journel-Sentinel series on “excessive drinking,” primarily related to drunk driving, ...
Red-Light Cameras Do Not Reduce Right Angle Crashes
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 6 Comments »By Jim Baxter, NMA President It seems that the most implausible myths are the hardest ones to kill off. Other than within the institutional capital of the Flat Earth Society, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, it is generally accepted that red ...
Daytime Running Lights: No Statistically Significant Effect On Safety
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in Technology | 52 Comments »By James Baxter, NMA President You’re not likely to see any bold headlines, and CNN will not be interviewing Bush administration DOT officials, but the seven year long saga of trying to prove that Daytime Running Lights improve highway safety is ...
Funding Our Highways
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 Posted in Toll Roads | 10 Comments »By James Baxter, NMA President The Bush administration just released another version of their plan to shift responsibility for highway funding to the “users.” This isn’t a bad idea, except that’s exactly the situation that has largely existed for most of ...
The Effect Of A National Speed Limit On Traffic Safety & Fuel Prices
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 Posted in Speed Limits | 26 Comments »By James Baxter, NMA President In 1982 Congress authorized the National Academy of Science to do a study that documented the “benefits” of the 55 MPH National Maximum Speed Limit (NMSL). I, as the President of the organization most critical of the ...
The Traveling Public Can Go Elsewhere
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in Speed Traps | 11 Comments »By James Baxter, NMA President According to public opinion, there are 57,000 speed traps in the United States. That’s how many speed traps have been listed by individuals on SpeedTrap.org, a website sponsored by the NMA. That averages out to 1140 ...
Tired Of High Gas Prices? Don’t Ask The Government For Help
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 Posted in Helpful Information | 24 Comments »By James Baxter, NMA President I don’t like the idea of $4 gasoline, I doubt that anyone does. However, I like gas lines, closed gas stations, and no gasoline at all, even less. That’s what we are likely to end up ...
