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With billboards, cities are facing the digital decision
By Patricia Lowry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Ah, for the good old days, when billboards were merely a blight you could avoid, sort of, by averting your eyes. Now the outdoor advertising companies have us...
View ArticleNew York City’s Struggle to Take Down Illegal Billboards
from the Village Voice with IllegalBillboards.org‘s own Jordan Seiler. City government and citizen vigilantes wage a losing battle against Clear Channel and illegal ads By Elizabeth Dwoskin Over the...
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In Florida, Billboards Trump Trees : NPR
excerpted from – In Florida, Billboards Trump Trees : NPR Highway 192 used to be exceptionally plain. It was lined by weed-filled ditches, with no sidewalks and poor lighting. It was drab. So the...
View ArticleAdvertising wont solve economic problems for NYC
Another bad deal to trade public space for money from The New York Sun: Council Member David Yassky of Brooklyn is calling for the city to begin allowing advertising on municipal trash cans and...
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Sorry Amber, for Calif. Republicans you’re just not as important as this...
The L.A. Times is reporting Clear Channel has its eye on 674 state owned digital billboards on California Highways. The billboards were installed to alert drivers to road hazards and for Amber Alerts...
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Demand a Read/Write City
This is graffiti: it’s spray paint it’s done without permission on someone else’s property it’s illegal politicians hate it It’s the expression of a citizen (or small group of citizens) in public space...
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Corporate Sponsored Pothole Repair!
Guest post from AAA Reader James Ewert: A certain greasy chicken franchise is adding another item to its menu: pothole patching. In Louisville, KY and potentially in a town near you, what was once a...
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Consumer Reports: California considers ads on car license plates
Facing a $19 billion deficit, California is seeking creative solutions to its budget shortfall. The state legislature is considering a program that would allow advertising on license plates, according...
View ArticleSmart License Plates: A Very Dumb Idea?
via Ban Billboard Blight Do you think the idea of California license plates than can show electronic ads is: 1. A great idea, about time. 2. Possibly questionable, but let’s study it. 3. One of the...
View ArticleSelling ad space on city property is not “creative”
Proposals of selling ad-space on things like firetrucks and are often framed as “getting creative” by the city councilmen that propose them. In fact, it’s not creative – it’s poorly thought out, and...
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