[Xenalyte]

The political season has turned ugly in Howard County, with an Ellicott City homeowner reporting a late-night fire that burned two Republican campaign signs in his back yard.

What good do campaign signs do if they're in one's back yard?

[El Gato]

What good do campaign signs do if they're in one's back yard?

Think BIG signs on long posts, sticking up above the fence, if there is a fence, such that they'd be visible from the street. Especially useful if your house backs up to a major street. In parts of Plano, (Texas) the houses back up to the parkways, with a paved "alley" between the individual homeowners fence and the fence that attempts to isolate the neighborhood from the traffic on the parkway.