Tranq is here.. and everywhere.. heartbreaking and ghoulish videos of people with amputated limbs and skin falling off makes the scenery appear to be more akin to a horror movie than reality.
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Post apocalyptic mall retail: The revenge of main street
For those born in the 1980s and beyond, we don’t know much of the amazing main streets that once existed. We see boarded up dilapidated evidence that it was there.. But we only new malls. People pondered if malls would kill main street. They did. Now main street got its revenge.. malls are dying too. Sadly it’s too far gone for main street to even think about a comeback, at least in most places.
Continue readingAnother canary in the Coal Creek Commerce Center
The most recent slide near Home Depot appears to be large enough for concern, but also regulated to only that area at this time. Hopefully it stays that way and all will be fine ..
But nature has a way. And the location where this entire center is built on is historic and also at times always subject to be affected by natural earth changes and weather.
Continue readingTHE NANNY CAM GOT HIM: It’s a dog eat dog world
Yet again the region makes national news for less than splendid subject matter..
Continue readingA case of the Palm Sundays
Churches today are mostly empty during a Sunday that once packed them in.. What is the future of religion in the coal region?
Continue readingHIGHWAY TO THE DANGER ZONE: The fast lane to death on Interstate 81
Life in the fast lane: More troubling news being revealed about this week’s weather related pile up.. And a history of Interstate 81’s often tragic events
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