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Brickbat: Seeing the Light

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Patio lights
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Officials in Asheville, North Carolina, are threatening restaurant and beer pub owners with fines if they don't get rid of lights on their patios. A city ordinance aimed at reducing light pollution bars strings of lights with lamps more powerful than 15 lumens as well as individual bulbs visible from a property's boundary.