The cars of Mindhunter are pretty great. Torch even wrote an article about it. Also liked that there’s a line where Holden Ford checks into a hotel and says his name is a bad joke in Australia.

I think it’s a big rat at union strikes.

In the end it looks like this project should be much more successful than the Loop Trolley in St. Louis. Cost over $51 million to build (mostly Federal funds) and only operated for 13 months before running out of money.

This happened in cities all over the country. Most street car lines were privately owned. Companies like General Motors started buying up lines and shutting them down so they could push buses. Now a lot of people (including myself) wish the rail lines were still around. 

And the best thing they did was make it free to ride. 

GM’s “Live Green, Go Yellow” ad from 2006 when everyone thought that E85 was the answer to all of our fossil fuel problems.

The LTO rotational sandwich game at Wendy’s was pretty good when I worked there in the mid-late 90's and early 2000's. The one’s I specifically remember are:

Maybe the Buick Century. It started as this and ended as a sad, bland, anonymous budget version of the Regal.

The 1999 Pontiac Grand Am in all of its plastic cladding glory in Lethal Weapon 4.

The Cut River Bridge Roadside Park on US-2 in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan is a good stop to walk around and get an up close view of a steel cantilever bridge. Parking available on each end. 

It’s rare, but it does happen. Over the last decade or so there have been a couple municipalities that have disincorporated or consolidated with others. One I can think of specifically was the Village of St. George in south St. Louis County. A mayoral candidate ran on a platform of “Elect me, and I will dissolve the…

I had the same thing happen to me. Got a photo radar speeding ticket in Pine Lawn, just paid the $50.00 because fighting it was too much of a hassle.

This bill was also a result of north St. Louis County municipalities turning I-70 and I-170 into a toll road. Pine Lawn, Normandy, Cool Valley, St. Ann, Charlack, St. John, Berkeley...the list goes on. Once this took effect, these munis deployed their code enforcement officers to cite their residents for code…

I saw a tweet earlier this morning about this story from a retired news anchor. He said that this is a perfect example of how the “One Man Band” system needs to go. This accident may have been avoided if there was someone there behind the camera to see it coming instead of the reporter having to do her own camera…

When the survival of a municipality depends on pilfering its own citizens through traffic stops, code violations and the like, it is a sign that it is time to fold operations become unincorporated. I’d be willing to bet the majority of the budget goes to paying salaries and there are crumbs left for anything else.

Fun Facts - Lucas, Kansas is also home of: Bowl Plaza, America’s Most Artistic Giant Toilet that was also voted the 2nd best restroom in the country in 2014; and the Garden of Eden, the largest intact folk art environment in the U.S.

Culver’s crinkle fries are pretty solid as well. 

My dad, a GM retiree, told me that a good majority of the cars with Landau roofs in the 90's and early 2000's were installed to hide sheet metal mistakes in the roof panels rather than repairing them or scrapping the car.

The proposal of an RTO as a control device suggests there are excess VOC emissions coming from the plant. Likely from coatings, solvents, etc. Paint booth filters only address particulate emissions from coatings overspray.

Correct. If they are using an RTO as a control device, it is to burn off VOC emissions.