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NYC Spending $27.5M on ... New Street Sign Font

Upper- and lower-case letters are apparently more readable

(Newser) - New York City is spending a whopping $27.5 million on ... wait for it ... a new street font. Its 250,000 signs will be replaced at $110 a pop within the next eight years, changing MADISON AVE. to Madison Ave. The city is doing it because the feds are requiring... More »

Obama Gets His Own Street

Chicago community first to name road after president

(Newser) - Calumet Park, a predominantly black neighborhood in Chicago, has voted to rename one of its streets “Obama Drive,” with new street signs scheduled to be posted Aug. 21, Chicago Breaking News reports. “We want to stamp his name” on the community, which Obama represented as state senator,... More »

Bush Street Gets Overnight 'Update' in SF

Pranksters in notoriously liberal city rename thoroughfare, if only temporarily

(Newser) - Partisan pranksters struck San Francisco overnight, covering four blocks of signs on the city’s Bush Street with “Obama Street” signs, NBC affiliate KNTV reports. The covers look professional, and chalk messages on the pavement encourage pedestrians to look up and notice the “change.” A rally is... More »

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