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Friday, March 13, 2026

Dead End: NAFTA and Life Expectancy

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It's good to have an MIT study back you up, but if you lived in Flint in the '70s and '80s you probably already knew this: ...
Saturday, February 28, 2026

Flint Artifacts: Buick Lubriplate

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Flint Postcards: Downtown Flint with Orange Accents

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Flint Photos: VW Experimentation at Flint Central High School in 1960

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Friday, February 13, 2026

Charting Decline on a Flint Street with Google Street View

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It's easy to explore my old Civic Park neighborhood in Flint via Google Street View. Twenty years ago, the experience was more nostalgic...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Put a Water Bottle on It

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  A cutesy sticker profiting off a human catastrophe? Or am I misinterpreting?
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The Art of Deception

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  Flint, as you've never seen it before, perhaps as imagined in a drug-induced haze, on Etsy . 
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Consider Donating to Flint Expatriates

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This little experiment in writing about Flint has been unexpectedly fun. I no longer annoy non-Flint people with stories about The Vehicle C...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2025

R.I.P. Michael Rawley

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Artist, musician, poet, performer, Renaissance man  Michael   Rawley  died peacefully at his home in Swartz Creek, Michigan on July 2, 2025....
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Thursday, April 10, 2025

Flint Artifacts: Holy Redeemer Flyers Football Jersey

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