Showing posts with label visual pollution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label visual pollution. Show all posts

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Shea Van Hoy jeers candidate campaign sign street spam.

It's time again for Cheer & Jeers at the extended local newspaper, and Shea Van Hoy is having a justifably violent allergic reaction to street spam. He might have mentioned the name of the sole candidate to reject such pollution: Me.


JEERS

... to politicians or their supporters who litter public property with campaign signs.

Most municipalities have laws against this sort of thing, laws that are regularly ignored by fly-by-night businesses. I can understand that to a point — they are just trying to turn a quick buck.

But those in elected office — or who want to be — are held to a higher standard, so breaking the laws others have made is a double-negative.

All the signs in places they shouldn’t be are a sore sight for the eyes.

— Shea Van Hoy, editor

Friday, March 04, 2011

Matt's on the sign kick, too.

NASH: Sign, sign everywhere a sign, written by Matt Nash (One Southern Indiana Newspaper)

Now I understand Matt's comment on Twitter: We've both been listening to the Five Man Electrical Band, and we're both feeling a sense of revulsion at the proliferation of unregulated signage. While the worst sinners aren't confined to the ranks of politicians, it will seem like it from now until May 3, and that's why I'm running a "no signs and no instant garbage" green campaign for council at-large.

It's simple: Hate the Signs, Vote the Publican (not Re-Publican).

Once seated, I will make it a priority to mercilessly scourge street spam by taking the street sweepers off the street and assigning their personnel to enforcing sign removal, among other tasks that might actually result in the cleaning of rampant ugliness on the city' streetscape.