Flint City Riveters, women’s full-tackle football team, open season April 7
By Dylan Doherty Yes, women can play football, Louise Ogadinma declares. And not only can they play--a number of women in Flint want to play. That hardy corps of athletes have found an outlet in the Flint City Riveters (FCR), a full-tackle women’s football team...
Trial policy to aid restoration of service for water shutoffs, council and mayor announce
By Jan Worth-Nelson Flint residents whose water has been shut off can get service restored by paying part of their balance due during the next 60 days, thanks to a "trial policy" approved by the Flint City Council this week. Terms for the reconnections are as follows:...
CCNA seeking “green wave” in little-noticed Genesee Conservation District election
By Jan Worth-Nelson Editor's note: This article has been corrected to indicate that an email request for a ballot is not one of the options for voting. While much of the nation obsesses about a speculated coming “blue wave” in primaries and midterms, one Flint...
Grayce Scholt, iconic writer, teacher, artist and poet of East Village Magazine, dead at 92
By Jan Worth-Nelson It is with a heavy heart that we announce that Grayce Scholt, our beloved longtime poet of East Village Magazine, died this morning at the Mission Point rehab center in Holly. Grayce was 92. As we attempt to absorb this great loss for EVM and for...
Commentary Part One: Is Baker College delivering “college in a can?” Why one Baker faculty member quit
Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part commentary considering how college classes are designed and offered -- and the teacher's role -- beginning with retired psychologist and former Baker College instructor James Woolcock's rumination on why he left teaching...
Commentary Part Two: In teaching and course design, “not everyone can cook”
Editor's Note: This is the second of a two-part commentary considering how college classes are designed and offered. Part One, available here, details retired psychologist and former Baker College instructor James Woolcock's rumination, "Grandma's Homemade Soup," on...
Book review: “The Impossible Presidency” and its sobering path to an “impossible president”
By Robert R. Thomas In 2008 American mythology got a sobering lesson delivered by profligate banksters who caused a near-collapse of the global economy. They then explained to the political class the economic alt-reality of BIG. How big? Too big to fail. Even bigger...
Sierra Club Nepessing presents “Politics of the Environment” March 14
: "Politics of the Environment" Find out what the Michigan Legislature has been up to in regard to environmental issues, how your lawmakers voted on those issues, what the 2018 election is going to look like, how the political races in your area are shaping up, and...
Atherton East replacement project moving forward with $1.5 million state tax credit
By Meghan Christian State aid enabling a first phase of relocation of the often-troubled Atherton East housing complex was announced March 2 by Mayor Karen Weaver. The Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA) has approved a nine percent housing tax credit,...
Hamilton Dam coming down as “rewilding” of Flint River flows forward
By Jeffery L Carey Jr. The crumbling 98-year-old Hamilton Dam on the Flint River is coming down. Currently under demolition, the deteriorated old structure finally is being removed from its position just north of the University of Michigan-Flint campus, with the Fabri...
This month in the Village: space school, free films, music, theater, environment and more
Compiled by Meghan Christian Space School Explore how astronauts prepare for space in their underwater training habitat. All Month Mon. - Thurs. 4 p.m. Thurs. - Sat. 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sun. 4 p.m. Longway Planetarium, 1310 E. Kearsley St. 237 - 3400 Admission: $4-$6...
Village Life: Encountering a “child of God” in resurgent Civic Park
By Harold C. Ford Well I came upon a child of God… And I asked him, Tell me where are you going This he told me… We are stardust, we are golden "Woodstock" by Crosby, Stills & Nash Returning from an East Village Magazine assignment, I came...
Commentary: Time to jump-start the new city charter
By Paul Rozycki Last August Flint voters set the city on a new course when they approved the city’s new charter---the first since 1974. In the turmoil over the Flint water crisis, successive emergency managers, and recall elections, the charter sometimes seemed lost...
Meet the candidate: John Cherry, 49th District state representative
By Jan Worth-Nelson A contest for a seat in the state House of Representatives is shaping up in the 49th district, with three well-known Democrats having filed papers so far: Charter Review Commission member John Cherry, water crisis activist Lashaya Darisaw, and...
Meet the candidate: Lashaya Darisaw, 49th District state representative
By Jan Worth-Nelson A contest for a seat in the state House of Representatives is shaping up in the 49th district, with three well-known Democrats having filed papers so far: Charter Review Commission member John Cherry, water crisis activist Lashaya Darisaw, and...
East Village Magazine – March 2018
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Two Black History Month plays at McCree a great choice, delivering telling clout from a ’60s view
By Patsy Isenberg The African American playwright/director/actor, Douglas Turner Ward, wrote two award winning plays in 1965, “Happy Ending” and “Day of Absence.” Those two one-act plays, biting satires with timely themes, were offered by The New McCree Theatre on...
Flint’s most vulnerable deeply mistrust tap water, are unclear on filters and lead testing, survey reveals
By Jan Worth-Nelson Note: This story was amended on Feb. 21 to add additional response from Tiffany Brown, public information officer of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality --Ed. The city of Flint is far from assuring adequate coverage and information of...
Village Life: Just another drag queen bingo night in Flint cheering things up
By Jan Worth-Nelson Can Flint be any more itself than combining a crowded bookstore, bingo, and a curvy six-foot tall drag queen in red sequins hollering out "B-8, bitches!"? I've been here more than 35 years and by now there is nothing much that could surprise me...
Legionnaire’s outbreak officially linked to Flint water crisis, nationally-touted research affirms
By Jan Worth-Nelson A fatal chain of events simultaneous with the Flint water crisis -- an outbreak of Legionella’s disease which killed 12 and sickened scores of others during a 2014-15 outbreak—has now been scientifically correlated to low levels of residual...
Spring break plan features theater, music, and New York’s Step Afrika! for Flint students
By Patsy Isenberg A visit and performance by a New York City dance troupe, Step Afrika!, and a Broadway-style show at the newly-reopened Capitol Theatre are features of an April 2-6 spring break program for Flint students age 4 to 17 announced Tuesday.. The Morris...
John Cherry makes 49th District State House run official; kicks off campaign
By Paul Rozycki Saying “We need leaders that show a genuine dedication to the public, whether or not it is easy or convenient for them,” John Cherry became the third Democrat to declare his candidacy to replace term-limited Phil Phelps in Michigan’s 49th state House...
42 percent vacant: Forum explores Flint’s “everyday remaking of place” after abandonments
By Jan Worth-Nelson Forty-two percent of Flint's properties are vacant -- 24,000 of them --and their presence, appearing to some like tombstones, to others like hopeful patches of gardens or clover, to others annoyances swamped by unmowed grass or decaying trash--has...
Whitmer introduces herself to Flint, challenges Detroit Dems’ reported doubts
By Jan Worth-Nelson Declaring "Michigan deserves better" than a GOP-led regime she said has created a state which "hardly resembles the Michigan I think of when I talk about my Michigan pride," Democratic candidate for governor Gretchen Whitmer introduced herself to...
Review: Sloan exhibit captures persistent intertwining threads of race and housing in Flint history
By Dylan Doherty “An Equal Opportunity Lie," a new exhibit highlighting the intertwining influences of race and housing in the history of Flint, opened at the Sloan Museum on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jan. 15 and runs until May 28. The title is a quote from Floyd...
