Posted on 05/06/2012 11:35:46 AM PDT by Darren McCarty
FLINT TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Should Flint Township change its name?
Some residents believe the community's reputation suffers when people don't make a distinction between the township and its neighbor, the city of Flint, which is known for a high crime rate and chronically poor finances. A state-appointed emergency manager now runs Flint.
"I think the issues with Flint are Flint's issues, and they are made Flint Township's by simply having Flint in the name," Chuck Hughes, a former township treasurer, told The Flint Journal. "We're at the mercy of Flint to fix their image."
Hughes, township Supervisor Karyn Miller and local business leaders are members of a committee that will discuss a new name and explore the possibility of the township becoming a city. The next meeting is May 23 and is open to the public.
A new name or a switch to city status ultimately would be up to voters. Miller said discussions are in the early stage and any changes are "well down the road."
Hughes lists some possible names, such as Bishop, which is the name of the local airport, or West Point. He notes that East Detroit became Eastpointe in 1992 to escape the shadow of the larger, troubled neighbor. Flint Township's population is 31,000.
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Changing the name will fix everything! lol
Michael Moore is a proud native son of Flint. Has he weighed in on this????????
He now lived in a mansion on Torch Lake.
a steaming pile, by any other name...
lives, not lived.
Micheal Moore lived in a town near Flint. It is a somewhat upscale town. They do not like their hometown boy.
http://arborupdate.com/article/590/davison-high-school-snubs-moore-salts-earth
My mistake. I thought he said he was from Flint. I think he has talked of Flint, and how Republican policies have destroyed it, or some such liberal pablum.
I always wonder what liberals think about places such as Flint, Detroit, Camden, East St. Louis, Newark, et. al. These places have been run by liberal Democrats for generations. Yet these places are some of the most God forsaken places in America. If liberal Democrat policies were the answer to the problems of these places, wouldn’t they be glittering jewels of prosperity and high qualities of life?????
Call it Suburban (after all they build plenty of those in Flint over the years).
MM seems to have started out in the media while working at the Flint GM Truck and Bus Assembly Plant.
They could rename it Lahore.
They were actually from Swartz Creek, southwest of Flint, They graduated High school a few years ahead of me.
WOW I haven’t heard those names in a long time.
Looked em up.. I agree - very talented.
I could have sworn the scum was from Davison. (Both my long-term memory and Wikipedia back this up.)
I distinctly remember, growing up in next-door Goodrich, an odious smell coming from due north....
(I'm hanging my Flintoid head in shame.)
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