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Consumers love great advertising jingles. Let me prove it.

While the New Bedford City Council was debating what to do with panhandlers, one local business owner decided to put them to work.

Should New Bedford allow businesses to advertise on municipal buildings? Councilor Abreu believes so, and expressed himself on Brian's Beat. Naturally, not everyone agrees, as you shall hear.

Imagine driving down William Street in New Bedford and seeing an ad for McDonald's plastered on the side of City Hall. Or how about a Dunkin' Donuts logo on your child's school building? Those could be realities if New Bedford moves into the world of municipal marketing...

Guess who's looking into advertising e-cigarettes on TV, radio, billboards and in print? Big tobacco companies, in their last holdout, are in their early stages of studying the category and the business opportunity of e-cigarettes. The nation's largest tobacco manufacturers realize that 45 million Americans must have their nicotine fix everyday and would rather switch than fight by giving customer

Rock music stations have been pushing the envelope since the day rock n' roll was invented, and broadcast for the first time. One Pennsylvania station is taking heat from local people over a billboard that some say is offensive.

I guess I should be used to it by now but for some reason I'm just not ready to be bombarded by Christmas or "holiday" comercials yet!