Posts tagged with 'Michigan'

Shrinking cities look to innovative solutions for a difficult transition

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
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Abandoned Flint home; image courtesy NPR

Times are tough in Flint, Michigan. And truthfully, times have been tough for quite some time now.
Once home to General Motors and to more than 230,000 people, this rust-belt city has been losing residents for decades. The population of Flint today is nearly half of what it was at its [...]