Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Policing Public Meetings

When I was just starting out as a reporter in Springfield, Illinois I got to cover city council meetings. They were always pretty dull affairs. That doesn't seem to be the case at Flint City Council meetings, where the police sometimes get involved.



1 comment:

  1. I used to cover Flint City Council meetings, in the mid-70s. Never dull ... once a city councilor was carried IN on a stretcher ... then of course, there was the one whose body (and his wife's body) was found on a dump in Toledo ...

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Thanks for commenting. I moderate comments, so it may take a while for your comment to appear. You might enjoy my book about Flint called "Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City," a Michigan Notable Book for 2014 and a finalist for the 33rd Annual Northern California Book Award for Creative NonFiction. Filmmaker Michael Moore described Teardown as "a brilliant chronicle of the Mad Maxization of a once-great American city." More information about Teardown is available at www.teardownbook.com.