By EVM Staff As part of its centennial celebration, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation has granted $600,000 to Genesee ...

By Harold C. Ford Heading into the new year, Flint Community Schools (FCS) remains troubled by declining student enrollment ...

By Paul Rozycki If 2025 offered any guidance, 2026 will be a year of challenging and unpredictable events. While there are a number of things that are sure to draw our attention in national ...

By EVM Staff With yet more snow today and temperatures dipping into the negatives again later this week, Consumers Energy has shared safety tips for extreme winter cold. Per a press release this ...

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By Ashly Harris and Ezekiel Harris Since the closure of Flint Central High School in 2009, our community has discussed what ...

By Kate Stockrahm If it were up to me, our holiday lights would be down already. Maybe that makes me sound like old Ebenezer ...

Mott Community College announced the appointment of interim president Shaunda Richardson-Snell this week amid vocal opposition from faculty and community members. Richardson-Snell is currently the ...

The tenured and tenure-track faculty at the University of Michigan – Flint (UMF) have begun efforts to unionize. A group of about 16 organizers have been meeting, circulating information and ...

Pressed by a complex mix of serious financial issues, declining enrollment, momentum to supply expected workforce needs, effects of the pandemic, and even socio-cultural shifts, the University of ...

Viola, Viola lives on in history. –“Color Blind Angel,” Robin Rodgers, 2008 [Author’s note: I was moved to write this personal reflection when my son Justin Ford gifted me a book: From Selma to Sorrow ...

In 1923, Calvin Coolidge became president after Harding’s death, Hitler was arrested in Germany for an attempted coup, Hemingway returned from Paris, publishing his first short stories including “Up ...