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Monday, March 28, 2011

Michigan Cuts Unemployment Benefits

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Does anyone out there still consider Michigan a bastion of union liberalism? Michael Cooper of The New York Times reports : Michigan, whose...
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Sunday, March 27, 2011

Flint Photos: Self Portrait in the Paterson-Sutherland House

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Flint Photos: The Genesee Valley Shopping Center Frog at Rest

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It appears the old Genesee Valley mall frog goes into some deep hibernation on the Applewood Estate during the winter.
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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Carl Crow's Tortured Prose

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I've been reading a comically bad history of Buick and Flint called The City of Flint Grows Up , authored by Carl Crow in 1945. The wri...
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Detroit's Racial Divide

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Think the Detroit area isn't racially segregated? Check out this map .
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Monday, March 21, 2011

Flint Photos: Homedale School Demolition

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Flint Photos: Sidewalk Writing at the Corner of Milbourne and Hamilton

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"W.B. Rogers & Son July 1917" "R.I.P. Quack"
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Sunday, March 20, 2011

Daewoo Comes to Jane Avenue

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Something tells me this is a resourceful use of a billboard by a Jane Avenue resident and not an example of guerrilla marketing by Daewoo .
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Flint Photos: Corner of Jane and Iowa Avenues

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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Flint Photos: Pot of Gold Run on St. Patrick's Day

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