Of all the world’s intolerable noises, none can match the shriek of a gas-powered leaf blower — the unholy contraption that interrupts autumn with its daylong caterwaul. Even from two blocks away, ...

Gas-powered leaf blowers harm New Jersey residents in three different ways. As a husband and father, I would like our state to protect us, and particularly our children, from all three forms of harm.

PROVIDENCE – The Providence City Council will once again review an ordinance to phase out gas-powered leaf blowers within city limits. The ordinance is a flashback to a 2021 failed proposal to ...

It is summertime again and your neighborhood is probably full, like mine, of the sound and smell of leaf blowers clearing away grass clippings and the hiss of string trimmers. Most of these appliances ...

INCIDENTS DO NOT WT ANTO SIMPLY BLOW OVER. -- THAT RESIDENTS DO NOT WANT TO SIMPLY BLOW OVER. AND CONTROVERSY GETTING LOUDER. THE CONTROVEYRS OVER LEAF BLOWERS. THE LAWN TOOL PEOPLE LOVE TO HATE. IF ...

For Mayor Brett Smiley, noise is a more-than-$100,000 issue. Add up the loud cars and motorcycles, leaf-blowers, nightclubs and concerts, and you get an earsplitting headache that the mayor hopes to ...