The Curse of Double Parking: NMA E-Newsletter #720
Driving down a street, you come upon a delivery truck parked in your lane, and it’s impossible to pass. Frustration can’t even begin to describe how you feel, especially when you are already late. Double parking seems to be how a city functions due to condensed urban populations, the proliferation of small businesses, a tremendous […]
Public Realizes Nowhere is Safe from Big Brother as Chula Vista, CA Police Celebrate 10,000th Drone Call
From Joe Cadillic, founder MassPrivatel Blog This story should serve as a warning to everyone: police are lying about only using drones to cover emergency calls. Red flags should have been going up all across the country when the Chula Vista Police Department announced that it took them only three years to have their drones […]
Crime Isn’t the Only Thing That Doesn’t Pay
By NMA President Gary Biller Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared in October 2021 as NMA E-Newsletter #668. If you would like to subscribe to the weekly one-topic newsletter that comes to your inbox on Sunday mornings, please click Here. Care to hazard a guess on how much money the city of Los Angeles […]
Crime Isn’t the Only Thing That Doesn’t Pay: NMA E-Newsletter #668
Care to hazard a guess on how much money the city of Los Angeles has raked in from traffic and parking enforcement during their last five fiscal years, which end each June 30th? If your estimate is more than half a billion dollars, you are getting warm. During those five years, Los Angeles collected more […]
Are Small Towns Addicted to Traffic Fines and Fees?
Editor’s Note: This article was initially written for the Spring edition of Driving Freedoms magazine and instead appeared as NMA weekly E-Newsletter #592 in May 2020. The information here pertained primarily to life before the COVID-19 crisis. Still, we believe traffic fines and fees will be even more of an issue for small towns (and […]
Driving in America—Are We There Yet?
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director Motorist advocates have many choices to make when it comes to fighting for rights. Trends change and either becomes complicated or simplified just because an elected official says “Enough!” Case in point: Texas Governor Greg Abbott vowed when he was running for governor in 2018 that he would like […]