Noise Can Elevate Stress Hormones

by Carol M. Ostrom Seattle Times May 21, 2003 Ah, the halcyon days of just-about-summer in Seattle. The air is warm and fragrant, and you’re dying to send some of that stuff through your stale, winter-weary home. You throw open your windows. The warm air rushes...

Darrell Issa: Car Alarm Congressman

Transportation Alternative June 1, 2003 Can I get a “whoop whoop?!” Congressman Darrell Issa is making a fortune off of your lost sleep. Darrell Issa, a Republican Congressman from Orange County, California, has won April’s “Noisy Dozen”...

Sounding Off on Audio Assaults

The Chicago Tribune June 8, 2003 It’s so exciting to think that in less than a month, all the freelance pyromaniac celebrants in the Chicago area will be lighting fireworks fuses to show their love of country. And magically, despite issuing ample warnings about...

An Award to Keep Quiet

by Christina Kauffman Hanover-McSherrystown June 15, 2003 Noise Free America gives Hanover, McSherrystown low marks Jeff Hess admits some of his distaste for music these days may be a “generation thing.” But he’s convinced he lost some hearing one...

Hails Quality of Life Measures

Western Queens Gazette July 16, 2003 To The Editor: I was interested to read Steven Walker’s article “Car Alarm Menace Ruins Quality Of Life: in the Western Queens Gazette (June 25, 2003). I thought Mr. Walker would like to know that he is not alone and that...