Editor’s Note: The following article by Steve Prestegard has been reprinted here with permission. Because I’m the only non-sports editorial person in the office and thus have better local things to do, I didn’t attend the Dubuque appearance of U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood in Dubuque, Iowa, recently. The Dubuque Telegraph Herald did:
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Should Red-Light Cameras be Legal?
By Gary Biller, NMA President Red-light cameras threaten the public interest in critical ways and should be outlawed across the country. Fifteen states already have banned automated traffic enforcement, mostly on constitutional grounds. Several key tenets of a citizen’s due process rights are violated by red-light camera ticketing. Among them:
When in Doubt, Ban It
By Gary Biller, NMA President He sounds like a man with a strong urge to leave a lasting legacy on his way out of the door. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, who is planning to step down from that post at the end of the Obama Administration’s first term, recently called for a federal ban on all […]
The NMA Mission Grows
By Gary Biller, NMA President It is about “what” and “who.” The question of “why” has been answered consistently over the past 30 years by Jim Baxter and a core of committed advocates. Without the dedicated drivers’ rights organization that is the National Motorists Association, we would still be puttering along on our highways at […]
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 55 mph National Maximum Speed Limit. This will be a trip down memory lane for […]
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