Friday, March 29, 2024

Flint Books: Phil's Siren Song by Tim Lane

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  Who doesn't love a great Flint novel? Tim Lane's latest book, Phil's Siren Song , is available now. Here's an excerpt: I d...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Tough Times: The Death of a Student Newspaper in Flint, Michigan by Gordon Young

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The former offices of The Michigan Times. (Photo by Santiago Ochoa/The Michigan Times) The Michigan Times , the student newspaper at UM-Flin...
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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Shoring Up Our Bankruptcy

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  "I'm just telling you. She says today's problems can't be solved by today's people, we just keep shoring up our bankr...
Monday, November 20, 2023

Inescapable Landscapes

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  1515 Illinois Avenue, Flint, Michigan. "We can’t help ourselves. We are shaped by the landscapes we are born to as inescapably as any...
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Flint Expat Classics: Ode to the Ghetto Palm (Ailanthus Altissima)

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Originally published on Friday, June 19, 2009 I mentioned the ghetto palm in my story on house hunting in Flint , and it seems some readers ...
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Friday, September 8, 2023

Goodstock 2023 in Flint

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Slow Sipper by Mort Maizlish

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I was active in the NAACP Youth Council in Flint 1959-61. Flint neighborhoods were still viciously segregated, with the main stem, Saginaw S...
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DALL·E 2 Tackles Flint, Michigan

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DALL·E 2 is an AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language. I asked "it" to capture ...
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Friday, July 14, 2023

Don't Miss Porch Fest in Flint's Carriage Town Neighborhood

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Thursday, June 29, 2023

Charles W. Nash House For Sale

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The Charles W. Nash house in Flint. Ron Fonger of Mlive reports :  The former Flint home of Charles Nash, co-founder of Buick Motor Co. and ...
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