Flint Expatriates

  UM-Flint is without a student newspaper for the first time in more than sixty years. (Photo by Gordon Young) Technically, the Michigan Times still exists, but it’s probably not what yo...

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  Who doesn't love a great Flint novel? Tim Lane's latest book, Phil's Siren Song , is available now. Here's an excerpt: > I drive Stuart home in his father’s beat up Chevy Capr...

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The former offices of The Michigan Times. (Photo by Santiago Ochoa/The Michigan Times) The Michigan Times, the student newspaper at UM-Flint, is officially "sunsetting." That's the sort of eu...

http://www.flintexpats.com/2024/03/tough-times-death-of-student-newspaper.html

  "I'm just telling you. She says today's problems can't be solved by today's people, we just keep shoring up our bankruptcy with the only tools we know. Making up more and more complicated...

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  1515 Illinois Avenue, Flint, Michigan. "We can’t help ourselves. We are shaped by the landscapes we are born to as inescapably as any other earthly creature born to any other ecosystem....

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Originally published on Friday, June 19, 2009 I mentioned the ghetto palm in my story on house hunting in Flint , and it seems some readers are not familiar with the charms of this invasive spe...

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I was active in the NAACP Youth Council in Flint 1959-61. Flint neighborhoods were still viciously segregated, with the main stem, Saginaw St, through the north side of town as the impregnabl...

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The Charles W. Nash house in Flint. Ron Fonger of Mlive reports :  > The former Flint home of Charles Nash, co-founder of Buick Motor Co. > and former president of Genera...

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The essence of Flint is too often defined by outsiders. Journalists, politicians, and policymakers love to swoop in, make dire pronouncements and tenuous promises, then skip town faster than ...

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The quirky world of the Coney Island was unique to Flint.  Perhaps a dozen purveyors were clustered in the downtown “hot dog district” around Saginaw between Water & Union Sts.  There w...

http://www.flintexpats.com/2023/01/dining-in-flint-by-mort-maizlish.html

  A few weeks ago I peddled the old Schwinn over to Joe Cunningham 's quilting studio on Market Street in San Francisco to catch up with a fellow Flintoid. He handed over the ultimate Flin...

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This post about the decision to move the Flint Farmers' Market originally appeared on March 8, 2013. I'm happy to admit that I was definitely wrong about the economic perils of moving the marke...

http://www.flintexpats.com/2013/03/petition-to-halt-flint-farmers-market.html

November elections in Flint and Genesee County just got a lot more complicated. Steve Carmody of Michigan Radio reports : > Flint’s long-time city clerk is resigning, and that’s ...

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If you're looking for the heart, humor, and, at times, horror of Flint, Michigan — and cities like it all over the country — look no further than these five non-fiction books. Rive...

http://www.flintexpats.com/2016/12/non-fiction-flint-books-about-past.html

Note the Cinci Beer t-shirt, the Dolphin running shorts, and the JVC boom box. Shopping cart "borrowed" from Hamady's. Flag "liberated" from Swartz Creek Golf Course. This is Flint so a ...

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Author, illustrator and Flintoid Tom Pohrt remembers the day pulp writer Johnston McCulley's creation walked the streets of Vehicle City. “Señor, who are you?” “A friend of the p...

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