This is exciting stuff:

Meanwhile, LA Weekly has published a pretty scary article about the digital billboard situation in Los Angeles.

We wrote about Los Angeles in Corrupt City Officials, Greed, Lies, Stupidity, Incredible Ineptitude, Secrecy, Laziness, and a City Strangled by 4000 Illegal Billboards.
The public space forces in LA have taken to the streets. Here is a remarkable TV news report:

NPR’s All Things Considered has produced an interesting piece of tree cutting. Listen to it here:

Judge Feess dodged the issue of whether aesthetics, alone, can be and is a substantial interest sufficient to sustain a government regulation of off-site advertising. That issue is squarely addressed and presented here.
-Judge Carmine Cornelio, Arizone Court, Pima County
In Metro Lights LLC vs. City of Los Angeles, the US District Court for the Central [...]

No, not Toronto. Los Angeles.

Photo: Scenic America.