Tag: Jan Worth-Nelson
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Effects of “that question” still echo: Denise Ghattas on her appearance at the CNN Debate
By Jan Worth-Nelson Since the night of March 6, when Denise Ghattas stood up in Whiting Auditorium at the CNN Democratic Debate and asked Bernie Sanders, “Do you believe that God is relevant?” she has been lambasted and mocked on Google, slandered on an extremist left-wing misogynist website, stalked by a Florida imposter, accused of being a Hillary…
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Village Life: When you need to turn to art, how satisfying to find it here
By Jan Worth-Nelson Maybe it feels like we have to, but we can’t think about water all the time. We can’t worry about water all the time. We can’t be depressed about politics all the time. We can’t be sad about Orlando — and now Baton Rouge, and now Minneapolis, and now Dallas, and now…
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National environmental journalists coming to Flint, public invited
By Robert Thomas and Jan Worth-Nelson A national association of environmental journalists is considering holding its annual conference in Flint, a representative of the group told the Flint Water Recovery Group partners at their regular meeting under the dome at City Hall last week. Board members of the Society of Environmental Journalists are scheduled to…
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Music is a “radical affirmation of the humanity we all share,” William Harvey asserts in return to Flint
By Jan Worth-Nelson William Harvey stands in front of 1910 Montclair St. in Flint, a house he hasn’t laid eyes on since 1987, and says, “Oh my god, that’s the house. That was where I got my first violin.” It came through the mail and, he recalls with the specific gravity of that life-changing moment, he…
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Happy Anyway: A Flint Anthology launches with complex stories, national interest
By Jan Worth-Nelson UPDATE: We have added late-arriving comments here from contributor Layla Meillier. Please see below. Editors and publishers nationally already are expressing interest in a new collection of essays about Flint, according to the publisher. Happy Anyway: A Flint Anthology, is coming out this month from Belt Publishing, which produces an online magazine…
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Village Life: President Obama’s drink of water, boos for Snyder, and that primal scream, continued
By Jan Worth-Nelson Editor’s note: This is an updated version of an earlier (April 25) Village Life column President Obama’s sip of water from a sparkling clean glass at Northwestern High School during his May 4 visit was nothing less than a show-stopper. After a few small coughs, when the President said, “Uhh, can I…
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At 100, Applewood Estate celebrates by welcoming community
By Jan Worth-Nelson In 1916, the Charles Stewart Mott family of Flint clearly were “one percenters” as we’d call them today, and the life they shaped for themselves when they built their estate that year at the foot of Kearsley Street reflects a passion for healthy home-grown food, architectural beauty and self-sufficiency. As the city…
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Village Life: Primal scream, anybody? This is going on too long
By Jan Worth-Nelson I was warned: I had Kleenex at the ready. Still, when my tears started up in the dark during Flint Youth Theater’s production of “The Most (Blank) City in America” Saturday night at the Elgood Theater, they hit me like a squall. I was crying for this beleaguered, heartbreaking, devastated town. And…
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EPA water use handout project aims at hard-to-reach residents, faces funding needs
By Jan Worth-Nelson Note: This is an updated version of a story appearing in the April hard copy of East Village Magazine based on information available when the hard copy went to press. More information has since become available. A two-sided color handout from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) developed explicitly for Flint details what residents…
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Pretending to be happy: smart guys say it works
This column first appeared in the April, 2009 edition. In light of the rough “Winter of the Water” and all of its depressing side-effects Flintoids have survived, it seems appropriate to remind ourselves of these ideas again. By Jan Worth-Nelson Sheepishly, I admit it: two of my favorite words are “lugubrious” and “lachrymose.” They’re fun…
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