Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Ghosts of Flint: Corvair Monza in Anacortes, Washington

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Thursday, July 26, 2018

Feeling Blue in Flint and San Francisco

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The more things change, the more they stay the same, at least when it comes to politics. My old Flint precinct in Civic Park is decidedly ...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City by Gordon Young

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Now Available for Pre-Order on Amazon , Barnes & Noble , Waterstones in Great Britain, and Indigo . Praise for T...
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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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