The familiar roar of gas-powered leaf blowers is turning into a political fault line, as cities and states move to restrict or phase out the machines and lawn crews and conservative lawmakers push ...
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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, ...
Every Saturday afternoon, Lisa Brenner knows not to sit on the patio of her Southeast Portland home or walk her two dogs. Like clockwork, a crew of three workers fires up gas-powered leaf blowers at a ...