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A judge on Thursday overturned a settlement allowing major outdoor advertising companies to convert more than 800 billboards in Los Angeles into digital displays, but declined to revoke permits already granted for about 100 conversions.
A judge overturned a settlement allowing major outdoor advertising companies to convert more than 800 billboards in Los Angeles into digital displays, but declined to revoke permits already granted for about 100 conversions.
In some versions of an Oct. 28 story about a utility company's plan to distribute energy-efficient light bulbs, The Associated Press erroneously reported what would have been covered by a charge to customers of 60 cents a month for three years. The charge would have covered the cost and distribution of two bulbs and lost electricity sales, not just the lost sales.
Consumers would no longer have to participate in an Ohio utility's program that effectively forced them to buy overpriced energy-efficient light bulbs, under a revamped proposal the company presented to state regulators Wednesday.
An Ohio utility criticized for passing on to customers the cost of a mandatory light bulb giveaway program on Wednesday proposed a voluntary program instead.
An Ohio utility criticized for the passing on to customers the cost of a mandatory light bulb giveaway program is proposing a voluntary program instead.
A plan by a Midwest utility to distribute energy-efficient light bulbs to customers backfired when it was learned that the recipients would not only have to pay for the bulbs, but also pay the utility for the electricity they wouldn't be using.
Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood's children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into her home for about an hour before they left for school.
Czechs feel betrayed, Poles irked, Romanians slighted. Ask them who's to blame, and the answer may come as a surprise: President Barack Obama.
Sigg bottles are leaving Katy Farber with a bitter taste.
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was ousted in a military coup after betraying his own kind: a small clique of families that dominates the economy. Now those same families stand as the greatest obstacle to the U.S.-backed drive to return him to power.
There may be no state more in love with letting residents vote on ballot measures than Oregon. They have voted hundreds of times over the past century and brought the state a property tax limit and nation's first state assisted-suicide law.
New England Revolution goalkeeper Matt Reis says David Beckham's return to the Los Angeles Galaxy and his inevitable return to AC Milan are distracting from other interesting stories in Major League Soccer.
Witnesses in Iran say police have clashed with up to 3,000 protesters near a mosque in north Tehran.
Like the virus itself, the name "swine flu" is spreading quickly. For the pork purveyors and hog farmers who make up the nation's $15 billion pork industry, that's a disaster.
The debate over the first statewide speed camera enforcement program in the nation has reached a boiling point following the fatal shooting of a camera operator.
It's been a season of jarring flashbacks in Iraq: a spate of major suicide bombings, including more than 145 dead over two days of bloodshed capped by a blast Friday outside a Shiite shrine.
Production of “New Moon,” the follow-up to “Twilight,” will not be halted as some outlets reported April 20.
Action star Jackie Chan's comments wondering whether Chinese people "need to be controlled" have drawn sharp rebuke in his native Hong Kong and in Taiwan.
Two Jewish groups have denounced a Pat Oliphant political cartoon on Gaza as anti-Semitic, likening its fanged Star of David to Nazi imagery before the Holocaust.
Faced with huge budget holes, states from Connecticut to Arkansas are eyeing higher taxes on cigarettes and booze, infuriating consumers who say the goods are the last vices they've got to help cope with lost jobs, a deepening recession and overall economic misery.
For many Americans who could use a bailout just to balance their checkbooks and make it through the month, the thought of their tax dollars going to million-dollar bonuses for AIG executives is enough to make them furious.
Banks got bailed out. So did automakers. So why not struggling homeowners? The question has struck a raw nerve across the country, with critics saying the Obama administration's latest housing rescue rewards people who bought homes they couldn't afford. Others counter that the taxpayer-financed plan will slow spiraling home prices and avert a deeper economic disaster.
The Los Angeles City Council has extended a temporary ban on new billboards while the Planning Commission works on new regulations.
Top 10 conservative conundrums of 2010 The conservative turmoil in New York's special election has been the story of the last two weeks, and Republican leaders are now concerned about an ideological and anti-establishment backlash in other races.
Polanski sex case arrest provokes backlash against his supporters in HollywoodHollywood stars flock to causes. An A-list name can boost the profile of a charity, highlight a far-off tragedy or reverse a grave injustice.
School Speech Backlash Builds School districts from Maryland to Texas are fielding angry complaints from parents opposed to President Barack Obama's back-to-school address Tuesday – forcing districts to find ways to shield students from the speech as conservative opposition to Obama spills into the nation …
Coming anti-gay backlash has fired its warning shots | The News is NowPublic.com
Obama's Trust ProblemAccording to news reports, the Obama administration — which seemed, over the weekend, to be backing away from the "public option" for health insurance — is shocked and surprised at the furious reaction from progressives.
What if the Big Cheese Had Been White?Is a man of Gates' station entitled to puff himself up and remind a policeman that he's dealing with someone who has juice? Is a woman of Sotomayor's accomplishment entitled to humiliate a lawyer who came to court unprepared? No more and no less entitled, surely, than all …
The Far Right's First 100 Days: Getting More Extreme by the Day"The outrageous screeds and paranoid delusions sounded pretty much as they always had -- but there was a new fury behind them, a strident urgency that hadn't been there before, and a very audible shift of the gears in right-wing behavior and rhetoric."
The Far Right's First 100 Days: Getting More Extreme by the Day.........in the past, the paranoid stylings of media ideologues like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck were simply background ranting to the more reality-based lead vocal of the party's actual politicians.
Obama's breakneck 100 daysAfghanistan is on the verge of heating up in a big way as the weather warms and the national elections approach. And public toleration of Obama's war could wear thin in a hurry.
Will Republicans Become Violent, Fight Clubbing Terrorists?The future of GOP in dire straits, it's only a question of time before there will be blood, as the movie title goes.
How Much Longer Will Media Shine a Spotlight on Twitter?Once the media is itself deafened by the echo chamber, it turns on itself and starts slamming Twitter as an overblown, overhyped fad -- never admitting that the media itself was the one overblowing and overhyping it all along.
A Tailwind In The Tempest: The backlash against AIG could end up strengthening ObamaThe way the incomprehensible AIG bonuses blew up on President Obama this week, the crippled financial behemoth's initials might as well have been IED.
Is The Octuplets Home Safe?Excerpt: How the mother of octuplets, Nadya Suleman, is going to take care of them and their six siblings is one of the questions that Lara Spencer, the host of "The Insider" recently asked when she sat down with Nadia Suleman and her mother, Angela Suleman.
Watch Out, Mr. President, Because We're Mad As Hell!The very change that swept Democrats into D.C. will surely sweep them away again if they squeeze ordinary citizens too much to pay for the failings of others.
Israeli army lawyer who sanctioned bombings under attack over university post An Israeli army lawyer who sanctioned the bombing of a police barracks in Gaza has provoked an outcry after securing a job at the law department of Tel Aviv university.
Brown calls for bank bonus shake-up LONDON: Regulators should be given the power to penalise banks that pay bonuses to reward short-term deal-making rather than long-term performance, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Thursday.
Pets Who Want to Kill Themselves - The cute backlash continues with a site that shows your pets at their most "embarrassed"Excerpt: When we told you about the genius blog F*** You Penguin - which takes overly cute animals to task - we prophesied that after years of everyone nuzzling up to fluffy animals in tutus and fairly ODing on their adorability, 2009 was set to be the year of the cute backlash.
Bailout backlashAmericans have begun an angry backlash against bailouts that could become a national revolt in 2009.
Newsweek draws fire on gay marriage"It doesn't surprise me. Newsweek has been so far in the tank on the homosexual issue, for so long, they need scuba gear and breathing apparatus," said Richard Land, who heads the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.
TriMet Gets Backlash From Dog Killed On Bus The violent death of a small dog on a TriMet bus Sunday afternoon continued to upset some riders and drivers.
African-American Radio Host Under Fire for Endorsing McCainThis is what I am talking about. Black Americans that are voting for McCain based on their beliefs are being accused of being traitors and called everything under the book.
Writers slam 42 Day Detention Plans.Forty-two renowned British writers have joined forces to attack the Government over its plans to allow the detention of terror suspects without charge for up to 42 days - on the eve of a crucial vote on the issue.
Palin hubbub leads Republican delegates to target 'liberal media'The GOP deployed its principal spokespeople, elected officials, delegates and cable television surrogates with one essential message: Mess with our gal, Sarah, or her pregnant 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, and we will mess with you.
How To Communicate Design Decisions To Clients?You may have noticed that in certain business and marketing circles there exists a "backlash" against the design community. Despite the rise of attractive, user-friendly solutions, in such circles unattractive designs have somehow managed to remain at the verge of acceptance.
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