Flint, Michigan Flint, Michigan City of Flint Official seal of Flint, Michigan Location of Flint inside Genesee County, Michigan Location of Flint inside Genesee County, Michigan Flint City Council Flint City Council Flint is the biggest city and governmental center of county of Genesee County, Michigan.
Located along the Flint River, 66 miles (106 km) northwest of Detroit, it is a principal town/city inside the region known as Mid Michigan. According to the 2010 census, Flint has a populace of 102,434, making it the seventh biggest city in Michigan.
The Flint urbane region is positioned entirely inside Genesee County.
General Motors (GM) was established in Flint in 1908, and the town/city interval into an automobile manufacturing powerhouse for GM's Buick and Chevrolet divisions after World War II.
Flint was also the home of the Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936 37 that played a vital part in the formation of the United Auto Workers.
In the mid-2000s, Flint became known for its high crime rates and has repeatedly been ranked among the most dangerous metros/cities in the United States. The town/city was under a state of financial emergency from 2002 2004 and again from 2011 2015. Since 2014, the town/city has faced a primary enhance health emergency due to lead poisoning in the small-town waterworks that has affected thousands of residents, as well as an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease due to tainted water at Mc - Laren Regional Medical Center that has killed 10 citizens and affected 77 others. In the latter half of the 19th century, Flint became a center of the Michigan lumber industry.
Main article: Flint, Michigan auto trade For decades, Flint remained politically momentous as a primary population center as well as for its importance to the automotive industry.
A freighter titled after the city, the SS City of Flint was the first US ship to be captured amid the Second World War in October, 1939.
The eighth deadliest tornado on record in the United States hit Beecher, just north of Flint, on June 8, 1953, killing 115 citizens , injuring 844.
The city's populace peaked in 1960 at almost 200,000, at which time it was the second biggest city in the state.
They culminated with the establishment of many small-town establishments, most prominently including the Flint Cultural Center. This landmark remains one of the city's chief commercial and creative draws to this day.
Moore, a native of Davison (a Flint suburb), revisited Flint in his later movies, including Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11.
In June 2004, Kurtz reported that the financial emergency was over. Of the nearly 80,000 citizens that worked for General Motors in Flint amid its peak years in the late 1970s, only about 8,000 were left after the most recent 2006 buyouts.
In November 2013, American Cast Iron Pipe Company (ACIPCO), a Birmingham, Alabama based company, became the first to build a manufacturing facility in Flint's former Buick City site purchasing the property from the RACER Trust. In 2004 the first prepared residentiary improve in Flint in over 30 years, University Park was assembled north of Fifth Avenue off Saginaw Street, Flint's chief thoroughfare.
Local foundations have also funded the renovation and redecoration of Saginaw Street, and have begun work turning University Avenue (formerly known as Third Avenue) into a mile-long "University Corridor" connecting University of Michigan Flint with Kettering University.
Atwood Stadium, positioned on University Avenue, has already received extensive renovations and the Cultivating Our Community universal is landscaping 16 different locations from in Flint as a part of a $415,600 beautification project.
Wade Trim and Rowe Incorporated have made primary renovations to transform empty downtown Flint blocks into business, entertainment, and housing centers. WNEM, a small-town tv station, has signed a ten-year lease on space in the Wade Trim building facing Saginaw Street. On September 30, 2011, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder appointed an eight-member review team to review Flint's financial state with a request to report back in 30 days (half the legal time for a review). On November 8, 2011, Mayor Dayne Walling defeated challenger Darryl Buchanan 8,819 votes (56%) to 6,868 votes (44%). That same day, the Michigan State review panel declared the City of to be in the state of a "local government financial emergency" recommending the state again appoint an Emergency Manager. On November 14, the City Council voted 7 to 2 to not appeal the state review with Mayor Walling concurring the next day. Governor Snyder appointed Michael Brown as the city's Emergency Manager on November 29, effective December 1. On December 2, Brown dismissed a number of top administrators including City Administrator Gregory Eason, Human Resources Director Donna Poplar, Citizen Services Director Rhoda Woods, Green City Coordinator Steve Montle and autonomous officials including Ombudswoman Brenda Purifoy and Civil Service Commission Director Ed Parker.
On January 16, 2012, protestors against the emergency manager law including Flint inhabitants marched near the governor's home.
Governor Sydner on March 7 made a statewide enhance safety message from Flint City Hall that encompassed help for Flint with plans for reopening the Flint lockup and increasing state police patrols in Flint. On March 20, 2012, days after a lawsuit was filed by workforce union AFSCME, and a restraining order was issued against Brown, his appointment was found to be in violation of the Michigan Open Meetings Act and Mayor Walling and the City Council had their powers returned. The state immediately filed an emergency appeal, claiming the financial emergency still existed. On March 26, the appeal was granted, putting Brown back in power. Brown and a several unions agreed to new contract terms in April. Brown unveiled his fiscal year 2013 budget on April 23.
It encompassed cuts in nearly every department including police and fire, as well as higher taxes. An Obsolete Property Rehabilitation District was created by Manager Brown in June 2012 for 11 downtown Flint properties.
Two lawsuits were filed in September 2012, one by the town/city council against Kurtz's appointment, while another was against the state in Ingham County Circuit Court claiming the old emergency financial manager law remains repealed. On November 30, the State Treasurer of Michigan Andy Dillon announced the financial emergency is still ongoing, and the emergency manager is still needed. Michael Brown was re-appointed Emergency Manager on June 26, 2013, and returned to work on July 8. Flint had an $11.3 million projected deficit when Brown started as emergency manager in 2011.
He was succeeded by Saginaw town/city manager (and former Flint temporary mayor) Darnell Earley. With Earley appointed to be emergency manager for Detroit Public Schools on January 13, 2015, town/city financial adviser Jerry Ambrose was chose to finish out the financial emergency with an expected exit in April. On April 30, 2015, the state moved the town/city from under from an emergency manager receivership to a Receivership Transition Advisory Board. In April 2014, Flint switched its waterworks from Lake Huron (via Detroit) to the Flint River. The lured was compounded with the fact that anticorrosive measures were not implemented.
Flint lies in the Flint/Tri-Cities region of Michigan.
Flint and Genesee County can be categorized as a subregion of Flint/Tri-Cities.
It is positioned along the Flint River, which flows through Lapeer, Genesee, and Saginaw counties and is 78.3 miles (126.0 km) long. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 34.06 square miles (88.21 km2), of which, 33.42 square miles (86.56 km2) is territory and 0.64 square miles (1.66 km2) is water. Flint lies just to the northeast of the Flint hills.
Pleasant, Traverse City Saginaw, Bay City, Mackinaw City Flint has a several neighborhoods grouped around the center of the town/city on the four cardinal "sides".
The University Avenue corridor of Carriage Town is home to the biggest concentration of "Greek" housing in the area, with fraternity homes from both Kettering University, and the University of Michigan Flint.
The East Side is the site of the Applewood Mott Estate, and Mott Community College, the Cultural Center, and East Village, one of Flint's more prosperous areas.
Just north is Eastside Proper, also known as the "State Streets", an region that has recently gentrified, and has much of Flint's Hispanic community. The West Side includes the chief site of the 1936 37 sitdown strike, the Mott Park neighborhood, Kettering University, and the historic Woodcroft Estates, owned in the past by legendary automotive executives and current home to prominent and historic Flint families such as the Motts, the Manleys, and the Smiths.
Facilities associated with General Motors in the past and present are scattered throughout the city, including GM Truck and Bus, Flint Metal Center and Powertrain South (clustered together on the city's southwestern corner); Powertrain North, Flint Tool and Die and Delphi East.
The Flint Journal's former command posts (now used by the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine) is to the far left.
Typical of southeastern Michigan, Flint has a humid continental climate (Koppen Dfb), and is part of USDA Hardiness zone 6a. Winters are cold, with moderate snow flurry and temperatures not rising above freezing on an average 52 days annually, while dropping to 0 F ( 18 C) or below on an average 9.3 days a year; summers are warm to hot with temperatures exceeding 90 F (32 C) on 9.0 days. The monthly daily mean temperature ranges from 22.4 F ( 5.3 C) in January to 70.5 F (21.4 C) in July.
The average window for freezing temperatures is October 8 thru May 7, allowing a burgeoning season of 153 days. On June 8, 1953, Flint was hit by an F5 tornado, which claimed 116 lives. Climate data for Flint, Michigan (Bishop Int'l), 1981 2010 normals, extremes 1921 present Enumeration Bureau, slightly over 1% of Flint's populace was born outside the U.S., and over three-quarters of that foreign-born populace have turn into naturalized people. Flint Rogues Rugby Michigan Rugby Football Union Longway Park Flint Fury Football Great Lakes Football League Atwood Stadium Flint City Derby Girls Roller Derby Women's Flat Track Derby Association Dort Federal Credit Union Event Center Flint Monarchs Women's basketball Women's American Basketball Association Mott's Ballenger's Fieldhouse Flint Firebirds Hockey Ontario Hockey League Dort Federal Credit Union Event Center There is semi-pro football at Atwood Stadium with the Flint Fury.
Atwood is an 11,000+ seat stadium in downtown Flint which has hosted many affairs, including baseball.
When artificial turf was installed, it was no longer able to host baseball games.[why?] The Flint Fury have been in action since 2003, and are presently a part of the Great Lakes Football League.
The 2009 Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram, born and raised in Grand Blanc, attended his final year of high school at Flint Southwestern Academy.
Many Flint natives have played basketball in the National Basketball Association (NBA), NCAA Division 1 or European experienced basketball.
Local teacher and autonomous film manufacturer Marcus Davenport chronicles Flint's ties to basketball and the basketball culture in his documentary Flint Star: The Motion Picture. Will Ferrell's 2008 movie Semi-Pro is based on the fictional basketball team the "Flint Tropics". On January 14, 2015, the Ontario Hockey League's Plymouth Whalers were relocated to Flint after a sale of the team to the owner of Perani Arena for the 2015 16 season. The team changed its name to the Flint Firebirds.
Flint Phantoms (2008) Arena Football Continental Indoor Football League Perani Arena and Event Center Flint Generals (1969 1985) Hockey International Hockey League IMA Center Flint Generals (1993 2010) Hockey Colonial/United/International Hockey League (1993 2010) Perani Arena and Event Center Flint Flyers (1889 1891) Baseball Michigan State League Venue Unknown Flint Vehicles (1906 1915, 1921 1925) Baseball Michigan-Ontario League Athletic Park Flint Gems (1940) Baseball Michigan State League Atwood Stadium Flint Indians (1941) Baseball Michigan State League Atwood Stadium Flint Arrows (1948 1951) Baseball Central League Atwood Stadium Flint Pros (1972 1974) Basketball Continental Basketball Association IMA Auditorium Flint Seminoles Basketball Great Lakes Basketball Association Proposed team, never played Flint Fire (2011) Basketball American Basketball Association Proposed team, never played Flint Blue Devils Football League unknown Atwood Stadium Flint Yellow Jackets Football League unknown Atwood Stadium Flint Wildcats (1974 1977) Football Midwest Football League Atwood Stadium Flint Sabres (1974 1988) Football Midwest Football League Atwood Stadium Flint Falcons (1992 2001) Football Michigan Football League, Ohio Valley Football League Atwood Stadium, Holy Redeemer Field Flint Flames (2000) Arena Football Indoor Football League IMA Sports Arena Flint Sabercats Football League Unknown Proposed team, never played Flint CIFL team (2012) Arena Football Continental Indoor Football League Proposed team, never played Michigan Coyotes Football Stars Football League Relocated from Pontiac, MI, dissolved before playing games in Flint Flint Rampage Football Great Lakes Football League Atwood Stadium Flint City Riveters Women's Football Women's Football Alliance Guy V.
Main article: Government of Flint, Michigan See also: Mayor of the City of Flint, Michigan The town/city is presently in a financial receivership having ended the financial emergency on April 30, 2015, that saw the town/city under an Emergency Manager as the State of Michigan has declared a state of small-town government financial emergency. The Receivership Transition Advisory Board has the authority to override council decisions in financial matters. The town/city has directed under at least four charters (1855, 1888, 1929, 1974). The 1974 Charter is the city's current charter that gives the town/city a strong mayor form of government.
Main article: Crime in Flint, Michigan Law enforcement in Flint is the responsibility of the Flint Police Department, the Genesee County Sheriff's Office, and the Michigan State Police.
Flint has been persistently ranked as one of the most dangerous metros/cities in the United States by multiple sources. From 2007 to 2009, violent crime in Flint was ranked in the top five among U.S.
Cities with a populace of at least 50,000 citizens . From 2010 to 2012, Flint ranked as the town/city with the highest violent crime rate among metros/cities with over 100,000 population. In 2015, CQ Press (using FBI statistics) ranked the crime index for Flint as 7th-highest in metros/cities with populace greater than 75,000. Most politicians are affiliated with the Democratic party despite the city's elections being nonpartisan. In 2006, Flint was the 10th most liberal town/city in the United States, as stated to a nationwide study by the non-partisan Bay Area Center for Voting Research which examined the voting patterns of 237 metros/cities with a populace over 100,000.
Flint placed just after San Francisco (9) and before Seattle (16) and New York City (21). The University of Michigan Flint is one of three campuses in the University of Michigan system.
Kettering University is a four-year Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) school in Flint.
The Michigan State University College of Human Medicine uses the former Flint Journal building as classrooms.
The Flint region is also served by Baker College's flagship campus, as well as satellite campuses of Davenport University and Spring Arbor University, all in suburban Flint Township.
Students attend 11 elementary schools, and two high schools, which accommodate grades 7 12 (Flint Northwestern High School and Flint Southwestern Academy).
The city's initial high school, Flint Central High School, was closed in 2009 due to a budget deficit and a lack of maintenance on the building by the Flint School District.
Flint Northern High School was converted to an alternative education school at the start of the 2013 14 school year, and was closed later in 2014. The state-run Michigan School for the Deaf is positioned in Flint.
The school moved from its locale in the north end of Flint in 2013 into the former Michigan School for the Deaf building off of Miller Road which received a $22 million renovation. The county's biggest journal is The Flint Journal, which dates back to 1876.
The Flint Journal began publishing a Tuesday version in March 2010. The East Village Magazine is a non-profit news periodical providing knowledge about neighborhood issues since 1976.
The monthly periodical centers on the East Village neighborhood, outside downtown Flint, but is distributed throughout the city.
Two quarterly magazines have appeared in recent years: Innovative Health Magazine and Downtown Flint Revival Magazine. Debuting in 2008, Innovative Health highlights the medical advancements, community services and lifestyles happening in and around Genesee County, while Downtown Flint Revival reports on new developments, building renovations and the many businesses in the Downtown area.
University publications include University of Michigan Flint's student journal The Michigan Times, Kettering University's The Technician and the MCC Chronicle, formerly the MCC Post, which is a monthly periodical from Mott Community College.
WJRT-TV (ABC), formerly one of ten ABC owned-and-operated stations, is presently the only region station to operate from Flint.
WSMH (Fox) and WCMZ-TV (PBS) are licensed to Flint, but their programming originates from outside of Flint proper, with WSMH originating from Flint suburb Mt.
WEYI (NBC), licensed to Saginaw, and WBSF (The CW), licensed to Bay City, has their studios in close-by Vienna Township, just north of Flint.
Other stations outside the Flint region that serve the region include Saginaw-based WNEM-TV (CBS) (which has a news agency in Downtown Flint), Delta College's WDCQ-TV (PBS), and Saginaw's WAQP (TCT).
1420 WFLT Flint (Urban Gospel, Flint Evangelical Broadcasting Association) 91.1 WFUM Flint (Public Radio, Michigan Radio, University of Michigan-Flint; simulcast of WUOM Ann Arbor) 92.1 WFOV-LP - Flint ("Our Voices Radio: Music, initial talk shows and small-town enhance affairs programming, licensed to Flint Odyssey House, Inc.) 94.3 WKUF Flint (Kettering University student station) Townsquare Media's WCRZ is persistently the top-rated station in Flint and has been near the top of the ratings persistently since changing format from beautiful music WGMZ in 1984.
2 rated station 12+ in Flint, second only to WCRZ) and WWCK.
Cumulus also owns prominent nation station WFBE (which for many years was a classical-music enhance airways broadcast owned by the Flint school system), as well as sports-talker WTRX and Saginaw/Bay City's WHNN (96.1 FM, Oldies) and WIOG (102.5 FM, Top 40), which both have good signals and momentous listenership in Flint.
Radio stations from Detroit, Lansing, Lapeer and Saginaw may also be heard in the Flint area; Detroit's WJR (760 AM) is regularly rated among the top 10 stations in Flint and often higher-rated than any small-town Flint-based AM station.
The town/city of Flint is served by various bus lines.
For travel inside and around the city, the Flint Mass Transportation Authority (MTA) provides small-town bus services.
MTA's chief hub is in Downtown Flint, while the Indian Trails/Greyhound Lines station is co-located at the Flint Amtrak station on Dort Highway, just north of I-69.
M-54, also known as Dort Highway after Flint automotive pioneer Josiah Dallas Dort, runs north and south through the easterly part of the city.
See also: Flint station (Michigan) Lake State Railway also runs freights in and out of CSX's Mc - Grew Yard in Flint.
Joseph Health Systems changed its name to Genesys Health System and the names of its four hospitals to Genesys Regional Medical Center (GRMC). On February 15, 1997, all the GRMC hospitals were merged into one hospital at Genesys Regional Medical Center at Health Park in suburban Grand Blanc Township (now owned by Ascension Health). and Flint Osteopathic Hospital was razed amid the Spring/Summer of 2015. In August 2016, Flint's contract with the business expired, leaving the town/city with no trash collection, with inhabitants advised not to leave their trash at the curb until further notice. Trash compilation was reinstated inside a several days after a Circuit Court judge permitted Republic Services to temporarily continue service.
Flint has five sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International: The following books are set in Flint or relate to the city.
Numerous segments were filmed in and around Flint, including one where Moore uses declassified knowledge to find the exact impact point from the nuclear ICBM that targeted the town/city (ground zero was Chevrolet Assembly, one of the General Motors plants at Bluff & Cadillac Streets).
With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade (1979) Documentary about the women of the Flint Sit-Down Strike.
Many segments were shot in Flint, especially at the Flint Local 432.
Michael Moore Hates America (2004) Filmmaker Mike Wilson travels to Flint to document small businesses and other evolution efforts in the city, and compares it to the depictions of the town/city in Moore's documentaries.
Semi-Pro (2008) Will Ferrell movie which centers around a fictitious 1970s ABA basketball team, the Flint Tropics.
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State treasury: Flint emergency financial manager still needed The Flint Journal via MLive.com, November 30, 2012 Emergency manager in Flint will be Michael Brown after Ed Kurtz steps down The Flint Journal via MLive.com, June 26, 2013 New Flint emergency manager Darnell Earley to take over after Michael Brown resigns The Flint Journal via MLive.com, September 11, 2013 The Flint Journal.
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Four Flint schools to be closed, Flint Northern to turn into alternative school The Flint Journal via MLive.com, March 13, 2013 Flint Powers Catholic High School students, alums, close chapter on old building, look forward to new home The Flint Journal via MLive.com, June 13, 2013 "Flint Journal: "Flint Journal to return to Newsstands on Tuesdays starting March 23", 3/7/2010".
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