I’m allowed to waste time on a Sunday night.
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Event: The Closing of Flint Central (Part 4 of 4)
Almost to the end.
I’m allowing myself a closing argument.
Flint has been in decline since before I was born, and very soon almost the entirety of its residents will only remember the city’s downfall. In the last fifty years, the population has halved, and Flint has gone from an expansionist vision of a future that saw it eclipsing competing cities to the possibility of demolishing whole neighborhoods that have emptied out.
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Event: The Closing of Flint Central (Part 3 of 4)
I have no idea why this space is configured this way; it’s located flush to the east side of the fourth floor of the main building, and a ladder adjacent to the entry runs up to the roof. The floorboards on the paths running around this space are rickety and not to be trusted.
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Event: The Closing of Flint Central (Part 2 of 4)
So I thought that I could get through this sucker in two posts, but that ain’t gonna happen. I’ll go for three posts and a short epilogue. Continuing on:
It’s the Liberty Bell!
To the balcony…
A better view of the theater.
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Event: The Closing of Flint Central (Part 1 of 4)
I have a lot of stories to tell from the last couple months… things got away from me during the job search. It’s not like I expect everyone to want to pore over my life story. This blog is basically a record of my experiences.
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Event: In support of Soviet-style Central Planning.
My brother sent me a link to this Kunstlercast. Podcast #64 is about the initiative to shrink Flint city limits, and Jim Kunstler spoke against in general terms against mandated shrinking. He said that he wasn’t familiar with the specifics of the situation in Flint, but his overall position seemed to be that city should rely on incentives and zoning to shift population.
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Event: A Non-GM Future for Pontiac?
Flint Journal: Pontiac not for sale, GM says, despite local dealership’s offer to buy.
I would be interested, next time I wanted to buy a car.
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Event: A hundred Wagoner loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.
“Here’s the part I find odd. Now, the government didn’t ask any of those Wall Street C.E.O.s to quit. Isn’t that kind of a double standard? I mean, if you build Cadillacs, you’re screwed. But if your chauffeur drives a Cadillac, you’re O.K.
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Concept: Saturn Return.
Not a picture of the actual car, but this is the same make and model, the same Medium Red, and the same hubcaps. The background could easily be a stand in for Southeast Michigan. Come to think of it, this picture was likely taken in Southeast Michigan.
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Event: More Reasons for the Bailout…
LeftHandedMan posted this brilliant comment on DailyKos:
… Read the restThe GOP never dreamed it would get to kill a massive part of organized labor and have an entire region of the country completely collapse on the Democratic parties watch to boot, but that is just the opportunity that has arisen for the Limbaugh/Coulter wing of the GOP.
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