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Digital Billboards Get Green Light
LOS ANGELES – At first glance, a digital billboard alongside the road looks very much like a conventional billboard. But give it a second look and the difference is obvious. These billboards use the latest technology in outdoor advertising to cycle through images every four to 10 seconds, displaying multiple messages from one or more […]
Arts Vying for a Place in School Day
Arts in education advocates, including Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R), are on the offensive to try to keep the fine arts from getting squeezed out as the federal No Child Left Behind Act ratchets up pressure on schools to raise reading and math test scores. Raising standards in arts education is a primary goal […]
Arts on Chopping Block, Advocates Say
Arts in education advocates, including Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) of Arkansas, are on the offensive to try to keep the arts from getting squeezed out as a 2001 federal education reform act forces schools to raise national test scores in reading and math or face penalties. Raising standards in arts education is a primary goal […]
Daylight-Saving Time Dawns in Indiana
Aside from open containers in Montana or the Confederate flag in South Carolina, few regional-specific issues are as polarizing and ingrained as Indiana’s do-it-yourself time system. If you’re a Hoosier, you’re either for daylight-saving time (DST) or against it. The nays had it until April when a state law was enacted requiring Indiana next year […]
Combat Sport in the Spotlight
The rising popularity of mixed martial arts – also known by more brutish aliases such as”extreme fighting” – has states scrambling to regulate a sport termed a human chess match by supporters and sheer violence by critics. Mixed martial arts features bouts between two trained athletes who use a combination of martial arts holds, chops […]