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Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Flint, Michigan would be hard hit by G.O.P. Medicaid work requirements

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Flint, prepared to get screwed, as usual. This time it's Medicaid. Alice Ollstein of TPM reports : In the GOP-controlled states of ...
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Sunday, April 22, 2018

Places to Park by the Factories and Buildings

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I see the shapes I remember from maps I see the shoreline I see the whitecaps A baseball diamond, nice weather down there I see the school a...
Thursday, April 19, 2018

Happy Birthday Tiger Stadium

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"April 20, 1912 —the day should be trumpeted. There should be balloons and bunting. A celebration. A cake. There is none of that. J...

Deindustrialization, Decline, and Opioids

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Andrew Sullivan, writing in New York Magazine , on "the emptiness" and opioids: "If industrialization caused an opium e...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Flint Photos: Doomed Space

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"A rich silence, heavy with secrets and untold stories, hangs in the air of each doomed space, and the banal residue of everyday li...

Flint Photos: Illinois Avenue

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Friday, December 15, 2017

In Memory of Patricia McFarlane Young

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Pat Young during her days as a department store model. Patricia McFarlane Young, who lived an adventurous, unconventional life gu...
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Saturday, December 2, 2017

The Flint Effect and Unsolved Homicides

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Just when you thought there were no new ways to catalog Flint's decline...   “The Serial-Killer Detector,"  The New Yorker , No...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

Flint Artifacts: AutoWorld Security Patches

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Not to be confused with job security.
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Flint Artifacts: The Shawn Chittle Flint Fashion Collection

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