Volume Control

by Chris Bynum New Orleans Times-Picayune April 24, 2003 Now hear this: Our increasingly noisy world is causing sleep deprivation, depression and hearing loss in adults, and may be impairing children’s learning. You’re sitting in your car at a traffic...

Noise Still a Problem for Car Audio

by Gregory Arroyo Mobile Electronics May 1, 2003 When Suzanne Babb’s De Queens, Ark.-based shop became the center of noise complaints three years ago, she employed lighthearted tactics to quiet down the community chatter. Using the slogan “Practice Safe...

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...