A rumor on the streets of SA — streets soon to be glamourized by the high-def glow of 15 digital billboards — is that Clear Channel Outdoor, the nature-advertising arm of SA-based media behemoth Clear Channel Communications, knows it’s not going to get one more ever-lovin’ electrical signpost. So when City Council passed the “pilot program” last December that gave the Mays’ family jewel a dozen of those 15 pilot boards, Clear Channel was poised to grab prime spots.

One school district is using its buses to serve as rolling billboards.

Lamar Advertising Co. has one more appeal to exhaust, short of going to court, in its push to bring digital billboards to the city of Knoxville.

City Hall’s council chambers were filled to the brim Monday night — mostly full of people to speak against settlement of a lawsuit by Lamar Advertising. Though the item was scratched from the agenda, residents aired their views during public participation.

Bismarck city commissioners have put a six-month hold on electronic moving image signs and digital billboards while they consider how to regulate them.

The International Association of Fire Fighters -- which represents more than Boillboard 290,000 fire fighters and emergency medical personnel -- is asking for the Orlando billboards that link Democrats with 9/11 to come down immediately.

Mike Meehan claims he never expected so many people to pay attention to the billboards that he put up around Orlando -- the ones that feature the Twin Towers burning next to the slogan: "Please Don't Vote for a Democrat."

Despite a six-year-old ban on new billboards, activists say Los Angeles' streets, sidewalks and buildings have more advertising than ever.

A battle of nature versus commerce is being waged quietly in the legislature over a proposal to allow billboard owners to cut more trees around their signs.

A new breed of billboards is quickly sprouting up in the Fargo-Moorhead area that is difficult to ignore.