Eco-Group Billboard Blitz to Greet Interior Chief

 

HELENA, Mont. – Environmental groups plan to crash the homecoming in Montana next week of President Trump’s Interior Department secretary with billboards, television ads and speeches to pressure him on issues from national monuments to sage grouse.

Ryan Zinke is scheduled to address the Western Governors Association’s annual conference Tuesday in the town of Whitefish, which he represented as a state lawmaker from 2009 to 2011.

He will be welcomed by billboards urging him not to touch the Upper Missouri River Breaks, one of two dozen national monuments he’s reviewing to eliminate or scale back protections.

Insider had a chance to talk with Grey Vick, owner of Grey Outdoor, based in Wilmington North Carolina about the current North Carolina legislation under consideration.  Here are some thoughts on legislation from the perspective of an owner/operator. 

After months of review, county staff are beginning to see the updated sign ordinance take shape.

Both the City of LaGrange and Troup County have been working to bring their sign ordinances in line with state ruling for months in an effort to make them legal, enforceable and up to date with modern technology. On Tuesday, the Troup County Board of Commissioners offered its comments on the updated county ordinance which is now nearing completion and focused much of its attention on how the ordinance will affect temporary signage.

“We reached a compromise that we think is workable to allow temporary signage for 20 calendar days without a permit, but for anything over 20 days it would be with a permit,” County Planner Tracie Hadaway. “We would allow it for 30 days once a quarter.”

Stonington, CT – The owners of Fleming’s Feed on Route 1 are seeking a zoning variance from the town so they can tear down three traditional billboards and replace them with a much smaller, two-sided, digitally lit billboard.

The town’s zoning regulations, though, prohibit full internal illumination of a sign and ban signs that “use a technology capable of displaying digital, variable, or alternating messages and copy generated by any electronic mechanical or illuminated means.” Under the existing regulations, the proposed digital sign would not be allowed. Similar signs, although larger, can be seen along Interstate 91 in Hartford.

To obtain a variance, Peter Fleming and Scott Nye will have to prove to the Zoning Board of Appeals at a July 11 public hearing that they have a legal hardship.

We’re under one month from the premiere of Peter Parker’s firsts solo flick set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Take that timeframe, add in a little Spidey, and the result is Sony hopping into marketing overdrive.

In partnership with Marvel Studios, Sony has released a handful of trailers, some viral marketing featuring NBA legends Magic Johnson and Tim Duncan, and a poster that took the internet by storm for all the wrong reasons.

Now, thanks to an eagle-eyed Spider-Man fan, we see one of the first billboards the studio is using to promote Spider-Man: Homecoming and it’s all sorts of badass.

Posted on the Marvel Studios subreddit by /u/ItsMinjo, the billboard is printed with a light blue color in the middle which, when combined with the sunny sky, appears to break the billboard in half. Have no worries though, passersby. The movie’s titular character is seen smack dab in the middle “holding” the two sides of the billboard together with his trademark webbing.

The billboard takes a page from a scene straight out of the movie, when Spider-Man (Tom Holland) is holding together the two halves of a ferry that Vulture (Michael Keaton) and his cronies destroyed.

With some of the coolest movie marketing we’ve seen – at least since the psychedelic signage we saw with Doctor Strange – it’s sure to drive more people to theatre. It’s not like the movie needs it anyway, it’s Spider-Man’s first solo flick in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, for Pete’s sake.