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		<title>Bad Idea That Won’t Die:  Governor Pushes For Advertising on Freeway Information Signs</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=3970</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
 
 Will Amber Alert Signs on L.A. Freeways Soon be Showing Ads?
Maybe it could be called the idea that has nine lives.  Each time it comes up, a chorus of criticism arises from citizens and many public officials, and it gets shelved, only to reappear at a later date.  See Governor Gearing Up to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Billboard Goes Dark In City Council President&#8217;s Neighborhood, Others Stay On</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=3951</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Billboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CBS Outdoor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clear Channel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Digital Billboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L.A. City Government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Clear Channel digital billboard at intersection of Silverlake Blvd. &#38; Effie St.
The digital billboard in Silverlake that caused a community uproar when it first appeared two years ago has been turned off—at least for now.  The electronic, jumbotron-like sign is in the district of L.A. City Council President Eric Garcetti, who has publicly stated in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fuel Outdoor Continues to Challenge San Francisco Sign Ban Despite Losing in L.A.</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=3929</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Billboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fuel Outdoor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Street Furniture]]></category>

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After a federal court judge ruled two years ago that Los Angeles couldn’t ban advertising signs on private property if it allowed the same kind of signs in bus shelters and other pieces of “street furniture,”  the company that sued the city filed a nearly identical claim against the city of San Francisco, which also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Renegade Sign Bandits Strike Again</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=3913</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Billboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fuel Outdoor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L.A. City Government]]></category>

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(Update:  &#8220;Sign Bandit&#8221; interviewed by L.A. Weekly)
Numerous mini-billboards belonging to Fuel Outdoor were tagged with &#8220;Illegal Sign&#8221; notices overnight on major streets in West L.A., three days after they first appeared on signs in the Venice area.   The persons responsible&#8211;called &#8220;renegade sign bandits&#8221; by a building department spokesperson&#8211;haven&#8217;t identified themselves or made any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lethal Products:  Billboards With Depictions of Guns and Violence</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=3885</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Billboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clear Channel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L.A. City Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lamar Advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supergraphics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Billboard directly across the street from an elementary school and charter high school in a neighborhood with active gangs
Back in 2005, protests by parents and community leaders in a gang-ridden area of  L.A. resulted in the removal of billboard ads depicting the rapper 50 Cent brandishing a gun in an ad for the movie, “Get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Renegade Sign Bandits&#8221; Call Attention to Fuel Outdoor&#8217;s Illegal Billboards</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=3852</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Billboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fuel Outdoor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our friends at the interesting and informative urban blogs LAist and Curbed LA have reported on the apparent posting of faux-official &#8220;illegal sign&#8221; notices on a number of illegal movie-poster-style signs owned by Fuel Outdoor.   See Activists Do Their Own Guerrilla Enforcement of Illegal Billboards and Venice Ads Hit.

A spokesperson for the L.A. Department of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Graffiti, Billboards, and Reclaiming Public Space Appropriated by Illegal Advertising</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=3805</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Billboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freeway Billboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fuel Outdoor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L.A. City Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supergraphics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Left, graffiti on freeway mural; right, signs erected without permits or inspections
What is the difference between those who spray paint gang slogans and other kinds of graffiti on public walls and companies that put up illegal billboards and supergraphic signs?  What is the difference, fundamentally, between graffiti and illegal outdoor advertising?   Both make a claim [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legal Wars:  U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Major Challenge To California Billboard Regulation</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=3795</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Billboards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three days after handing down a campaign finance decision that rocked the political world, the U.S. Supreme Court handed anti-billboard activists a major victory by refusing to review a lower court’s ruling that California could legally bar off-site commercial advertising along sections of the state’s freeways and highways.

The case involved a long-running legal challenge to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legal Wars:  Judge Puts Sign Company Lawsuits on Hold Pending Appeals Court Ruling</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=3777</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Billboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L.A. City Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skytag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supergraphics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Wide Rush]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Federal Judge Audrey Collins
More than a dozen sign company lawsuits against the city of Los Angeles have been stayed by U.S. District Judge Audrey Collins pending a decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on her ruling that the city’s 2002 ban on off-site advertising signs is unconstitutional.

In her ruling of August, 2008, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Street Furniture at the Beach?  L.A. Wants Exemption From Billboard Ban in Coastal Zone</title>
		<link>http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=3756</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dennis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Billboards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JC Decaux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L.A. City Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Street Furniture]]></category>

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The site, above left, on the ocean side of the Venice Boardwalk, could get advertising “kiosks” like the one at right if the city succeeds in exempting street furniture from guidelines set forth by the California Coastal Commission, which prohibit billboards and other forms of off-site advertising in the coastal zone.

The so-called ‘public amenity kiosks” [...]]]></description>
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