Cities facing budget crunches are increasingly turning to co-branding arrangements with various corporations. Another reason to resent the Bloomberg ban: no lucrative deals with Phillip-Morris.
Julian Sanchez | June 10, 2003
Cities facing budget crunches are increasingly turning to co-branding arrangements with various corporations. Another reason to resent the Bloomberg ban: no lucrative deals with Phillip-Morris.
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|6.10.03 @ 1:03AM|#
"Citizens expect more efficiency from government," he says. "They don't want property taxes to increase, and they don't want sales taxes to increase."
Instead they get another city payroller selling ads to keep services running as is instead of more efficiently.
|6.10.03 @ 3:03AM|#
Another reason to be GLAD of the Bloomberg ban. Please, I'd like place names that might actually bear some connection to their place and not some corporation that may or may not have any connection to the place beyond an advertising one. I'd like some places to be commercial free. Can we get some sort of civic space notion to survive?
Steve in CO|6.10.03 @ 3:48AM|#
I wonder when the police will go on strike and the ED-209 "Urban Pascification" model will go online?
:-D A movie well ahead of its time, Robocop.
PS Isn't it funny how Paul Verhoven's distaste for corporations and his tongue-in-cheek portrayal of a lap dog TV-news media has really come to live (aka Fox News)?
david f|6.10.03 @ 12:49PM|#
OPP?
oh, nevermind...
drf