Poor little Janeville, with its charming old neighborhoods...

So the US auto-manufacturing sector is "booming" again, or so the champions of Free Market, Private-Enterprise Extremism WOULD HAVE US BELIEVE! Perhaps that's why the former GM plant in nearby (40 miles distant) Janesville WI is STILL shuttered. Took a trip there a week ago. Yes, the plant still stands; but the parking lot is weed-covered and the factory looks just as abandoned as it's in fact BEEN for four long, difficult Janesville years. If there's a recovery in progress down in Rock County, you could have fooled me! Who forgot to tell Janesville the "wonderful news?"