{"id":628,"date":"2010-05-07T20:33:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T20:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/blog\/?p=628"},"modified":"2010-05-07T20:33:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T20:33:17","slug":"number-1-bus-registration-plate-needs-law-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/07\/number-1-bus-registration-plate-needs-law-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Number 1 Bus Registration Plate Needs Law Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.org\/counter192.js'><\/script>Thursday\u2019s Globe described an effort  by Biff Michaud of Marblehead to hold onto a bus number plate bearing  the number 1 \u2014 a plate granted by Governor John Volpe in 1966 to  Michaud\u2019s now-deceased father.<\/p>\n<p>The Registry of Motor Vehicles suspended  the number plate last year after learning that Michaud wasn\u2019t keeping it on a  bus; instead, it\u2019s on his Cadillac Escalade. But now state  Representative John Keenan is sponsoring legislation, which has already  passed the House, that would give Michaud the right to keep Bus 1 on any  vehicle he likes.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The  Legislature\u2019s willingness to bend laws on a case-by-case basis has hurt  the public interest. Every year, lawmakers are asked to pass bills that  expand pension benefits for specific individuals, or for small groups of  people. These bills raise public expenditures \u2014 but any legislator who  votes against them ends up looking stingy or churlish. While the Bus 1  bill doesn\u2019t carry a cost, it bends the law for one person\u2019s benefit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday\u2019s Globe described an effort by Biff Michaud of Marblehead to hold onto a bus number plate bearing the number 1 \u2014 a plate granted by Governor John Volpe in 1966 to Michaud\u2019s now-deceased father. The Registry of Motor Vehicles<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-xs btn-info read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/07\/number-1-bus-registration-plate-needs-law-change\/\" role=\"button\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-reg-plate-news","category-world-number-plate-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}