FlintNOW Fund announces over $1.5m in grants to support the Flint community
Mar03

FlintNOW Fund announces over $1.5m in grants to support the Flint community

By EVM Staff The FlintNOW Fund of the Community Foundation of Greater Flint (CFGF) announced its first round of grant funding in mid-February, totaling $1,595,000, to support what it called “essential programs” in the Flint community. The grants range from $50,000 to $500,000 to multiple organizations for projects in healthcare, education, and well-being: Communities First, Inc. was awarded $120,000 to support Safe Play at...

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Mott Community College to host free screening of ‘St. John Street: Story of a Neighborhood’
Feb24

Mott Community College to host free screening of ‘St. John Street: Story of a Neighborhood’

By Kate Stockrahm Mott Community College (MCC) will host a screening of the new PBS documentary “St. John Street: Story of a Neighborhood” on February 26, 2025. The documentary features first-person interviews “chronicling families in Flint who built a vibrant community” on the city’s north side before urban renewal and Interstate-475 displaced the more than 7,000, mostly Black residents that called the St. John neighborhood home....

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Education Beat: Last month at the Flint Ed. Board: a first step for Central, officer elections,  bye bye to the balanced calendar, a $700k settlement and more
Feb23

Education Beat: Last month at the Flint Ed. Board: a first step for Central, officer elections, bye bye to the balanced calendar, a $700k settlement and more

By Harold C. Ford By any measure, January 2025 was a consequential month for Flint Community Schools (FCS) and its school board. Most newsworthy, perhaps, was a kick-start to the possible reopening of long-abandoned Flint Central High School, which EVM covered earlier this month.   Other important developments included the election of officers by the Flint Board of Education (FBOE), abandonment of the district’s balanced...

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2025: What will the year bring in politics?
Feb19

2025: What will the year bring in politics?

By Paul Rozycki During President Trump’s first weeks in office, we’ve seen more than 1,600 pardons; dozens of executive orders on everything from oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to withdrawing from the World Health Organization; tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China; the firing or dismissal of federal employees; pausing (and unpausing) of federal grants; and suggestions that the U.S. should take over Greenland, the...

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Education Beat: Flint Community Schools moves to upgrade, reopen Flint Central campus
Feb16

Education Beat: Flint Community Schools moves to upgrade, reopen Flint Central campus

By Harold C. Ford Flint Community Schools (FCS) is taking preliminary steps toward an upgrade and reopening of its Flint Central High School campus, which was shuttered by the district in 2009.  With a unanimous 7-0 vote at its Jan. 22, 2025 meeting, the Flint Board of Education (FBOE) approved a contract with Plante Moran Realpoint (PMR) to begin preliminary work at a cost of $120,000, or $15,000 monthly over an eight-month period....

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