Finally! Real News!

I can totally get behind this:

City workers will soon make a sweep of city businesses looking for illegal neon signs.

[Glendale] Mayor Jay Hintze said he ordered city staff to look for violators of city ordinances that require permission before any neon sign is installed. [. . .]

"I think a neon salesman has gone through the city," Hintze said. "None of these businesses has ever applied for permits for the signs. Even if the sign just says 'open,' you have to apply before you install it." Merchants have 14 days to comply.

I'm getting sick and tired of all this news focus on the Downing Street Minutes, the scandal-a-minute Bush administration, and the war news. It's been wall-to-wall hard news for so long now . . .