Tuesday, September 03, 2024

Alfred Hitchcock Presents S05E37 Escape To Sonoita...(featuring the young Burt Reynolds)

Shades of Black-and-White and in-between where the opening sequence with a real "Weather Girl" expressed it all before weather reports became computer-generated.
...BTW there's a real place in Southeaster Arizona named Sonoita that's now marketing itself as a Wine Region

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Escape to Sonoita 
Two kidnappers think they have made their escape when they hijack a tanker in the dry desert, leaving the occupants and a female victim behind to die. Content provided on this platform is for Educational & Entertainment Purpose Only.

 

Shorts remixing this video

On The Housing Crisis/Real Estate Rules

Preferences that flourished out of a desire to separate Americans by race have evolved into a labyrinthine, exclusionary, and localized system that is at the core of the housing crisis—and very few people know about it.

The Labyrinthine Rules That Created a Housing Crisis

Illustration of a simple house with a thick stack of paperwork hovering over itThe rules that govern land are the foundation of our lives.
By Jerusalem Demsas

Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty
September 2, 2024, 6 AM ET
Jerusalem Demsas On the Housing Crisis
This article has been adapted from the introduction of On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy.
Consider how a home is built in America.
Long before the foundation is poured, the first step is to check the rule books. For the uninitiated, the laws that govern the land appear hopelessly technical and boring, prescribing dozens upon dozens of requirements for what can be built and where. Zoning ordinances and other land-use regulations or zoning ordinances reach far beyond the surface-level goal of preserving health and safety. Instead, they reveal a legal regime stealthily enforcing an archaic set of aesthetic and moral preferences.
. . . In reality, this system has resulted in stasis and sclerosis, empowering small numbers of unrepresentative people and organizations to determine what our towns and cities look like and preventing our democratically elected representatives from planning for the future. . .

Bleeping Computer Round-Up

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