Wow, looks like the County of Maui is throwing everything it's got into advertising. Yesterday afternoon, while I was in the process of writing this story about how the Maui County Council Budget & Finance Committee just approved a bill that would open up public parks and facilities to concessions and sponsorship agreements ("Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Coca-Cola … [Read more...] about County of Maui now offering ads on Maui Buses
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Maui County Council Budget and Finance Committee approves park concessions/naming rights bill
In his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace imagined a future in which everything corporations sponsored everything in society–including time itself. Numbered years gave way to the “Year of the Whopper,” “Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad,” “Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar” and so forth. It’s funny on its face, but given government’s increasing reliance on corporate … [Read more...] about Maui County Council Budget and Finance Committee approves park concessions/naming rights bill