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Sunday, July 31, 2011

Flint Artifacts: Chevrolet Motor Company Parcel Tag

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Saturday, July 30, 2011

Flint Artifacts: Sign Language Radio Card

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Friday, July 29, 2011

Flint Postcards: Fisher Body on South Saginaw Street

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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Flint Photos: Oak Grove Sanitarium

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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Flint Postcards: Genesee County Savings Bank

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Incentivize City Living

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Why not bribe, I mean, incentivize people to live in Flint? It's happening in Detroit. CBS Detroit reports : Blue Cross is offering inc...
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Monday, July 25, 2011

A Changing City

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Reader GaryG comments on Flint's past, present and future : I know of a Flint kid who, with a friend, had a Flint Journal paper route f...
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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Flint Artifacts: AC Liquid Tire Chain

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Remember this stuff? Check out the warning label! Not exactly environmentally friendly. How did this toxic concoction work? Thanks for Micha...
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Saturday, July 23, 2011

Where Are the Readers?

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A reader wondered about who's reading Flint Expatriates. Well here's a the top ten list of unique visitors by state, and the top ten...
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Friday, July 22, 2011

Emotional Rescue

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Ta-Nehisi Coates, a senior editor at The Atlantic , is writing some interesting things about gentrification , which happens to be one of the...
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