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The Saturn Plant that Time Forgot - GM didn't
What in Spring Hill is this?

General Motors announced that it is planning on investing $255 million in its idle Saturn Plant in Spring Hill Tennessee even though it has no (announced) products to build there. The Ion recently ceased production, and the minivan that was going to be built there was cancelled. General Motors doesn't have the cash to just throw it around willy-nilly, so what could be going on behind the scenes? Here are some possibilities.

1. An unannounced, super-secret, black-budget kind of project, perhaps a stealthy mach-4 spy car called "Aurora".

2. GM wants to spruce up the plant prior to selling it to another car-maker, Nissan Perhaps?

3. GM wants cash up front from the state of Tennessee. When time comes to pony up the GM investment - that's where a certain chap named Eleven comes in and lowers the hammer.






Animal of the Week:
61 Flavors of Opossum

Most people are told that the opossum is the only marsupial that is native to the Western Hemisphere. Okay, but did you know that there are about 61 species of opossum? Only one is native to the United States, the Virginia Opossum. Purists hate it when we call them "possums". Possums live in Australia they say. Whatever you call them, they sure are good eatin'.