Boulder Weekly, Oct.10-16, 2002.

The "news boxes" are individual plastic boxes were newspapers and free publications can be displayed, they are spread all over town. The Boulder City Council would like to gain regulatory control of them, stating that these boxes constitute a visual blight, distracting motorists, blocking fire hydrants, bus stops etc. The city plans to implement "news banks" (metal boxes in which publications share space) that could be rented annually. Some publishers call this a challenge to freedom of speech: a publisher has to have approval of the city to put its opinion out on the street and new publications might be kept out of the hands of the readers if there is not enough news bank space. These publishers claim that the city's control would nears censorship.