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...story interchange would be built over the Charles River, and would create about as much elevated highway as depressing the Central Artery would eliminate...
Sometimes the medium gets in the way of the message. Last week the Colorado chapter of Greenpeace unveiled an antinuclear billboard blitz near the idle Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant outside Denver -- and ran afoul of another environmental group: Citizens Against Billboards on Highway...
Greenpeace's six-month campaign features a series of garish Day-Glo-red posters. The signs on the northbound side of the highway depict a worker in a protective suit and gas mask, and the southbound versions show an exploding nuclear bomb. Until Greenpeace slapped its posters on the billboards, they had been blank for two years as a result of a successful boycott against local merchants who advertised on them. "It's not clear whether Greenpeace should be labeled environmental nitwits or environmental traitors," groused Tom Lustig, an attorney for the anti-billboard group. Countered Jason Salzman, a Greenpeace...
...taxes even when they were earmarked for specific popular causes like fighting drugs and crime or protecting the environment. "Last time we were ready to pay, and we got taxed for it," says Sunny Merik, an editor in Santa Clara, Calif., who in the past supported measures that underwrote highway improvements and other public works. "But then the people in Washington put some ((fuel)) taxes on top of that, and then gas prices went up because of the Middle East. People would be crazy to tax themselves on top of all that. I have one friend who said he voted...
While he acknowledged that the project would have a "negative asthetic impact," Twomey said the state would mitigate these effects by constructing large areas of parkland around the highway structure...