One of the fun things about being a writer is that your words don’t always reach the page as you wrote them. My computer’s acting up this morning, I’m moving a bunch of old files around to try and fix that, and came across this first draft of my Raptor R review from last year. Probably motivated by my own ego, I figured it might be worth sharing. I just drove the fastest internal combust engine off-road truck that will ever be sold in a showroom.
One of the most interesting books I read last year was Alexandra Lange’sMeet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall (2022). Lange, an architecture and design critic, chronicles the American shopping center from its origins in the 1950s to its uncertain post-Covid future. She focuses on Victor Gruen, né Viktor Grünbaum (1903-1980), the Austrian-American architect whose Northland Mall, which opened near Detroit in 1954, is regarded as the first suburban open-air shopping center in the U.
On March 7, 2024, Charge Enterprises Inc. (the “debtor”) filed a prepackaged chapter 11 bankruptcy case in the District of Delaware (Judge Horan). The debtor is an EV charging infrastructure company that provides location selection, engineering, installation, testing, and maintenance to EV charging sites (PETITION Note: Prior to Dec. ‘23, the debtor also had a telecommunications segment that routed voice, data, and SMS to cell carriers globally).. This case marks the latest in a recent string of EV-related businesses to file some form of bankruptcy in the past few two years after Electric Last Mile Solutions, Lordstown Motors Corp.
If last year was the “Andy Reid coaching tree playoffs,” then this year’s postseason belongs to the Shanahans. This season, five coaches who led their team into the playoffs have worked under Mike and/or Kyle Shanahan: Matt LaFleur, Mike McDaniel, Sean McVay, DeMeco Ryans, and, of course, Kyle Shanahan. One of those men — Ryans, who is in his first season with the Texans — will be making his postseason head coaching debut.
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