full and free download (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Summary Jackie Moon, the owner-coach-player of the American Basketball Association's Flint Michigan Tropics, rallies his teammates to make their NBA dreams come true
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
The city of Flint, Michigan, is planning to turn human waste into fuel to power vehicles and buildings. Mayor Don Williamson sees sewage as not only a potential fuel source for city vehicles, but as a source of jobs as spinoff businesses grow up around the planned facility. That facility would be implemented by Swedish Biogas International, who has experience converting human waste into...
Cinema Treasures (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
FLINT, MI -- When this writer took in "What Happens in Vegas" at the US 23 Twin Drive-in Theatre , it was learned that the drive-in's owner Lou Warrington suffered a serious heart attack last year which left him homebound. He is 71. His 74-year-old wife Diane is doing double duty by caring for her ailing husband and managing the drive-in. It is the belief of Diane Warrington and the drive-in...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
The black-white infant mortality gap continues to grow in most of Michigan's large urban areas despite progress in reducing risk factors among blacks, according to a recent study, the Flint Journal reports. The Michigan branch of Kids Count conducted the study through the Michigan League for Human Services.
News at About Projectors (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
In Flint, Michigan at the Longway Planetarium to mark Longway's 50th anniversary, the Flint Cultural Center Corporation plans a “Dancing Under the Stars” event scheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday, May 10. Around 60,000 people visited the Planetarium last year for shows and programs. Their projector they use at the planetarium, the Digistar II, which uses [...]
TheSpoof.com - Spoof News (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
A really fat kid from Flint Michigan didn't get laid for the 250th Saturday on the row since he turned 18. Norman Chubbs says that it was no surprise but is still pretty pissed off.
Right Mind (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Mark J. Perry is a professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan . This is from his site: Carpe Diem What are the main economic differences between right-to-work states and forced-union states (see map above)? Not much really, except that compared to forced-union states, right-to-work states have had faster economic growth,...
Cinema Treasures (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
BURTON, MI and FLINT, MI -- Both remaining drive-in theaters in the Flint, Michigan area are open this year. The US 23 Twin Drive-in Theatre just south of Flint will open for the season on May 2. It has been owned by the Warrington family since it first opened in 1951. The Miracle Twin Drive-in Theatre , one of the last two remaining drive-in theaters operated by National...
Automotive Business Review (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
General Motors is planning to eliminate one shift of production at its full-size pickup truck assembly plants in Pontiac and Flint Michigan; Oshawa in Ontario, Canada; and its full-size SUV assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin.
MichiganLiberal (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
Here is Nick from Right Michigan, yesterday : ... You think if General Motors received a hundred million bucks in the form of a MEGA tax credit they'd find a way to keep those shifts in Flint and Pontiac? The State would basically be buying every truck that came off the line for a while but whatever... details. If the purpose of those big fancy decisions is to "create" or "retain" jobs,...
OYAX (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
Citizens Republic Bancorp Inc. of Flint said Thursday its board of directors has voted to suspend the bank's common stock quarterly cash dividend of 14 cents a share. The dividend had been reduced in February from 29 cents a share.
denialism blog (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
Southeast Michigan's Genesee county is experiencing an outbreak of syphilis . The largest city in the county is Flint, made (in)famous in Michael Moore's film Roger and Me . Syphilis is a nasty sexually transmitted disease with an interesting history. It may have originated in the New World. It was the subject of the infamous "Tuskegee Experiment" . It has enough different symptoms that...
NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
by Shannon Murphy April 14, 2008 13:02PM FLINT, Michigan -- Family of Dewayne Fletcher, whose body was found Friday morning in the Flint River, believe his struggle with mental illness might have led to his death. Police pulled Fletcher's body from the river about 8 a.m. Friday near the Hamilton Dam on the University of Michigan-Flint campus. Fletcher, 40, of Flint...
The San Antonio Business Journal (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
Citizens Republic Bancorp Inc., based in Flint, Mich., has extended its contract with AT&T for network and conferencing services for the next five years. (T)
