Lindsay's Famous!

Well, she did have an article published in the New York Press about illegal advertising in New York City. Go read.

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Thanks, Mike!

The scaffolding passion slightly preceded the NYPress article. I started blogging about scaffold safety after a guy died working on the building I was working at. The editor at the NYPress decided that my scaffold obsession could be channeled into an investigation of illegal advertising. It's nice when you can get paid to indulge your passions!