Worthy Mention
Flint is back in the news, folks! This time, we rated in the top 10 of the 'fastest-dying cities' in the US. This might seem like a discouraging pronouncement, but when you think about it, Flint has been begging for outright death for some time. The average resident gets on not so much like a citizen, but a casualty. Honestly, I don't think any real promising steps forward can be made until it does. There are still a healthy sum of politicians and administrators who simply will not let the beast fall. They gather around it like greedy relatives surrounding the bed of a stalwart patriarch who refuses to give his last breath. Meanwhile, the remaining few take the meager wealth, and with unwatched liberty, practice all manner of corruption.
Of course, I've been gone for a few years. Maybe it's changed. Maybe the nation is wrong about Flint. All I know is, the sooner the buzzards stop circling and the dust settles, the phoenix can finally spring forth to new life and prosperity, and so can its citizens.
Of course, I've been gone for a few years. Maybe it's changed. Maybe the nation is wrong about Flint. All I know is, the sooner the buzzards stop circling and the dust settles, the phoenix can finally spring forth to new life and prosperity, and so can its citizens.
posted by Master of None at 4:56 PM
1 Comments:
There are some good things happening in Flint, too, which national news doesn't seem to take into consideration. Since the dorms were built, first time freshman attendance is up at UM-F, and they're trying to focus on making it a university town, which is what we've said all along they should do. No reason Flint couldn't give Ann Arbor a run for its money, considering the numerous good post-secondary schools up there.
Have you seen anything about the bio-gas plant that a Swedish company is building in Flint?
There are people putting an honest effort into helping that phoenix spring forth, a step or two at a time. Hope springs eternal.
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