Note: I'm re-posting this item that originally ran on July 21 because the comments are really worth reading. As readers have pointed out...

In the late seventies, the Herzog family had a tradition of meeting friends and relatives at Bishop Airport in getups like these to amuse an...

It was bad enough when the house next door to Matt Schlinker on Kensington was abandoned after a foreclosure, but it was even worse when the...

There's never enough space to use all the material you gather on a story, and my profile of Dan Kildee in Slate was no different. If yo...

Somehow these two shooting incidents — one in Flint and one in Grand Blanc — manage to illustrate the seemingly ever widening gap between ...

Slate covers Flint's latest export: Dan Kildee is driving with his knees and talking with his hands as his rental car pushes 80 mph o...

Lloyd Copeman contemplating the boot that inspired one of his greatest inventions. Like many great inventors, Lloyd Copeman didn't limi...

A model of the UM-Flint campus in the lobby of the old Water Street Pavilion .

Khalil AlHajal of The Flint Journal reports : The average number of Genesee County households that relied on government food assistance d...

The humble beginnings of what was once called the Buick Freeway. With no more Buick, does Flint still need the freeway? (Photo courtesy of ...