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

Clear Channel Communications Inc. has settled a legal dispute with the lenders funding its private equity buyout, clearing the way for the radio and outdoor advertising company to finally seal the deal nearly two years after it was first announced.

The Austin City Council gave initial approval Thursday to new sign and billboard rules and nixed a few proposals that had upset some neighborhood groups.

Clear Channel Communications Inc. spent more than $320,000 in 2007 on personal use of the corporate jet for its top executives, the company said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Tuesday.

Austin City Council Member Mike Martinez has decided to scrap the most controversial parts of a billboards ordinance he proposed.

The City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved a settlement agreement with one of Houston's largest billboard companies that is expected to lead to the removal of 831 signs.

The Texas Transportation Commission passed rules Thursday that will allow changeable electronic billboards in and near Texas cities, but only if a city government first approves installation of the digital signs.

The Longview Planning and Zoning Commission on Tuesday night directed the city's planning staff to look into the legalities of placing a moratorium on new digital or electronic signs inside the city. We agree that if such a moratorium is legal — and we don't see why it wouldn't be — that is the best action for the City Council to take.

In the 2003, 2005 and 2007 Texas legislative sessions, representatives of outdoor advertising companies and certain members of the Outdoor Advertising Association of Texas and America attempted to pass the following bills. All were defeated but could be re-introduced in future legislative sessions.

William F. Buckley, Jr., noted conservative commentator writes, "If a homeowner desires to construct a huge Coca-Cola sign facing his own homestead rather than the public highway, in order to remind him, every time he looks out his window, that the time has come to pause and be refreshed, he certainly should be left free to do so. But if he wants to face the sign toward us, that is something else."