1.   A stricter proposal from Miscikowski, supported by Feuer, would simply ban all new billboards without allowing new ones on the freeways.

2.   Cominsky and the league came to the city with the idea for the new billboards.

3.   How they do that is up to local officials, not the federal government, but the feds do want a ban on new billboards along the route.

4.   In the latest case, the department said that a new Marlboro billboard in left-center field at the Atlanta ballpark was visible during several Atlanta Braves telecasts.

5.   Instead of two weeks of painting, a new billboard can now go up in under an hour.

6.   New billboards without Joe Camel will start appearing this week.

7.   New billboards are advertising everything from cellular phones to expensive cars.

8.   Rhode Island and Oregon have measures banning new billboards, while Maine, Alaska, Hawaii and Vermont prohibit all billboards.

9.   Street-front buildings were freshened with new paint and unfinished buildings were cloaked behind bright new billboards or neat green netting.

10.   The bill would also end sign construction in rural areas by prohibiting new billboards in unzoned areas.