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The Mitten Channel is a Michigan podcast and media network created by former Genesee County Prosecutor Arthur Busch.
We produce original programs that blend legal expertise, investigative storytelling, and deep Michigan history — including true crime analysis, environmental investigations, employee rights, and rich biographies rooted in Flint’s working-class culture.
Our mission is to preserve Michigan stories, examine the systems that shape our communities, and give voice to the people who define our industrial past and future.
Mitten Channel Podcast Shows: Radio Free Flint, Flint Justice, The Mitten Works, Mitten Environmental and The Mitten Biography Project
To listen to full audio podcast interviews visit https://www.radiofreeflint.media
Radio Free Flint is a production of the Mitten Channel where you can find podcast shows Mitten Environmental, Flint Justice, The Mitten Works.
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Cold Case: How AFIS And DNA Unmasked A Hidden Killer
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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John Prine’s America, Hymns for the Working Class
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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Saigon’s Baby Airlift: A Flint Medic’s Story
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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A Flint Athlete’s Journey From High School Stardom To Optometry
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Joe Ryan III: From Flint to Hollywood — The Sound of a New Generation
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Feb 07, 2026 |
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Can Minnesota Prosecute an ICE Agent?
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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A Republic at War With Itself: Militarized Policing and the Slow Erosion of Civil Liberties
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Flint on the Brink: Who Governs After Collapse—Broken Systems, Billion-Dollar Philanthropy, and Flint-First Leadership
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Bad Water, Kids, Big Money, and Lawyers
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Leaving Flint to See America on a Schwinn Bicycle
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Inside Anatomy of a Murder
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Dec 27, 2025 |
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John D. Voelker and Anatomy of a Murder: Law, Doubt, and Justice in Michigan
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Dec 27, 2025 |
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The Age of Anxiety: Political Media, Dementia, and the Boomer Fear
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Inside Detroit’s 99th Thanksgiving Parade:On-the-Ground Coverage by Arthur Busch
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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She Dodged Bullets for the UAW — and Her Legacy Still Haunts the Auto Industry
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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When Flint Fought Back: Genora Johnson and the Strike That Changed America
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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DETROIT RISING: A Photo Tour of Motor City's Amazing Comeback | The Mitten Channel
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Flint’s 1937 Sit-down Strike Saved Wages, Work, and Democracy
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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The Michigan Murderer: John Norman Collins and the Ypsilanti Terror
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Flint’s Coney Island Legacy: The Immigrant Story Behind a Michigan Icon
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Why I Leave Michigan Every Winter (And What It Says About Us)
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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The Golden Age: Flint Community Schools
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Jan 07, 2023 |
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Electronic Drone Musician Hauras: A Song for Flint, Michigan
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Conservation and Sustainable Food Growing in Michigan
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Potholes, Roads and the Future of a Michigan Rustbelt Town
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Midnight in the Vehicle City: The Strike Heard Around the World
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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George Winters — A Michigan Music Life: Flint, Davison & The Red Piano
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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In Flint They Don't Name the Streets for Us
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Emily Doerr: What Can Be Done To Fix Flint's Schools?
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Oct 23, 2022 |
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Bryan McCree: A Flintstone Comedian With Joy in His Bones
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Prep School Transfers Impact Flint Prep Hoops and Culture
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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The 2017 Bishop Airport Terror Attack: Chief Chris Miller Tells the Inside Story
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Keeping Old Documents,Photos and Donating Your Treasures
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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A Conversation with Genesee Historical Center Archivist Colleen Marquise
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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Flint’s Civil War Heroes: The Story of the 10th Michigan Infantry
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Ben Pauli: Democracy and the Flint Water Crisis
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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"Mr Flint" Charles Stewart Mott an American Capitalist Pt II
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May 31, 2022 |
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Troubadour of Crossroads Village Michigan: Neil Woodward
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May 21, 2022 |
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Semaj Brown, Flint Poet Laureate, Author and Educator
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May 17, 2022 |
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Marquise Gray: MSU Basketball Great & Flint Beecher Coach
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May 10, 2022 |
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Dave Liske: History of the Flint Style Coney Island Restaurant
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May 03, 2022 |
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Michael J Thorp: Michigan Trivia & People We Should Know
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Jan Worth-Nelson: History of the Iconic East Village Magazine
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Connor Coyne novel "Urbantasm" Set in Deindustrialized Flint
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Flintstones: Whats in a Nickname?
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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CS Mott: A Giant in Automotive History Part 1
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Apr 02, 2022 |
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Carriage Town Ministries and Homelessness in Flint
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Rev Robert McCathern and His Hip-Hop Civic Park Church
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Jeffrey LeValley, Gospel Grammy Songwriter
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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The First Internet Murder Trial (ft David Nickola)
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Judge Duncan Beagle Interview Part Two
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Judge Duncan M. Beagle Part One
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Reviving Rust Belt Flint with Phil Hagerman
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Safetyville, Corvettes, T-Birds, and Miniature Flint-- Part Two
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Flint Poet Laurate Semaj Brown
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Rico Phillips Helps Hockey Break Barriers to Diversity
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May 21, 2021 |
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Michigan Truck Camper Tour: Lake Huron Shoreline
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May 06, 2021 |
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Michigan Lumber Company: Oldest Lumber Yard in Flint Area
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May 03, 2021 |
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Author Patricia Majher
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Apr 25, 2021 |
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The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water Crisis (ft. Anna Clark)
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Apr 18, 2021 |
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Policing Flint: Jermaine Reese on Community, Training, and Accountability
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Michael Jablonski
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Apr 04, 2021 |
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Joel Bye and the Blue Hawaiians Band
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Mar 28, 2021 |
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William S. Ballenger III
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Mar 21, 2021 |
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Pete Flanders, Musical Memories
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Mar 14, 2021 |
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Flint Community Schools (ft Norm Bryant)
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Joel Feick: Life After Television
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Arlene Crane-Curns: 93 Year Old Author Shares Her Story
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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The KKK and Flint, Michigan 1920-2020
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Fighting the Poll Tax with Attorney Robert Segar
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Feb 28, 2021 |
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Former neo-Nazi Leader Charts an Unusual Path
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Daniel J. Clark: Your Grandpa's 1950's Auto Industry
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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Ang Adamzcik: Arts & Scraps
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Jan 17, 2021 |
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Before Columbine: Remembering the Bath School Bombing of 1927
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Jan 10, 2021 |
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Flint’s Country Music Capital Story—David O. Norris on Maybelle Carter & Johnny Cash
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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MC5 Guitarsist Wayne Kramer: Rock and Roll Pioneer
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Dec 27, 2020 |
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Ernie Harwell: Detroit Tiger Broadcaster (ft Jack Lessenbury)
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Dec 20, 2020 |
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Kate Garns: Self Talk & Motivational Speaking
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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Marty Embry: Flint Basketball Legend
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Nov 22, 2020 |
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Kosher Nostra: The Purple Gang and Prohibition-Era Detroit
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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Toxic Brownfield and the Flint River
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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Flint River Blues: Colton Ort
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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A Cain & Able Murder Case: David Melfi
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Ode to Singer Songwriter Justin Townes Earle
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Oct 24, 2020 |
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Safetyville, USA Part 1
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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Characters in the Commercials: Flint Television Advertising
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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Harrowing Rescue of Orphan Babies, a Plane Crash and a Flint Hero, Phillip Wise
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Truck Camping: The Mackinac Bridge and the Straits of Mackinaw
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Sep 27, 2020 |
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: My Eulogy
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Sep 19, 2020 |
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Truck Camper Tour: Lake Michigan and Wilderness State Park
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Sep 19, 2020 |
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Gypsy Jazz Guitarist Remi Harris
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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Labor Day Tribute: UAW Dir Steve Dawes
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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Michigan's Woodstock: Sherwood Forest #20042
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Sep 05, 2020 |
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Wild Rice in Michigan with Author Barb Barton
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Aug 30, 2020 |
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Planet of the Humans: A Movie About Surviving Climate Change
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Aug 23, 2020 |
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Flint's White Backlash: George Wallace, Don Williamson & Trump #20039
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Aug 16, 2020 |
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1970's Flint and Other Tall Tales: Jon Harpst
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Aug 15, 2020 |
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Super Lawyer Tom Pabst on Whistleblowers, Police Misconduct and Civil Rights
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Aug 09, 2020 |
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State Rep Tim Sneller: Memories from a 30-Year Career in the Michigan Legislature #20036
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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Judge Herman Marable on his Career, Efforts to Help Kids in the Flint area
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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From Flint Sandlots to the Michigan's Big House and the NFL: The Paul Staroba Story
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Jul 26, 2020 |
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#32 Schools & Pandemic: Michigan State Rep Sheryl Kennedy Discusses the Plan
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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#31 Murals & Graffiti: Flint Public Art Project
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Jul 19, 2020 |
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Harry Barrett FGC Golf Teaching Pro
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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#29 Michigan Murder Mystery: A Confession but No Bodies?
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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#28 Judge Jessica Hammon: Exciting, Smart and a Yoga Teacher for Delinquent Kids
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Jul 05, 2020 |
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Cold-Blooded Murders at Mary's Sunshine Dairy #20027
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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At 92,Harry Binder, Finishes His Last Crim Road Race.
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Jun 28, 2020 |
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Judge Chris Christenson. His Path to the Bench.
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Scott & Me: #2: M&S Pop, Dawn Donuts, Kresege Store Selfies and Olive Burgers #24
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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Toxic Tadpoles and Curious Kids: Flint's First Lead Crisis
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Jun 14, 2020 |
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Gritty Flint: George's Gambling Joint, Armed Robbery and Pinball #20022
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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Welcome to Flint: Charlie's Drug Store Murder #20021
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Jun 07, 2020 |
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US Supreme Court & Flint's Gang-Related Murder Case #20020
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Jun 03, 2020 |
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Flint Culture Clash: Southerners Find Auto Boomtown USA
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May 31, 2020 |
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Student Diary: A Riot at High School
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May 31, 2020 |
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Income Inequality in a Factory Town
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May 28, 2020 |
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Flint's Hidden History
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May 26, 2020 |
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Investigative Reporter's Most Haunting Murder Cases
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May 23, 2020 |
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Flint's 1960's "Golden Age" Memories: Hot Rod Cars, Music and Girls
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May 16, 2020 |
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A Career in Journalism In a Place Like No Other
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May 12, 2020 |
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Oldtime Baseball News: From Hobby to Dream Job
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May 04, 2020 |
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A Champion for Flint's Poor
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Apr 25, 2020 |
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A Grand National BMX Racer and Auto Gypsy
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Apr 22, 2020 |
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Sports Broadcaster Recalls Flint's Best Athletes #20007
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Apr 18, 2020 |
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JFK, Coors, Golf: Flint's Trailblazer Leo Seide #20006
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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Jeff Natchez, DO: A Detroit Tiger Baseball Dream
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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Americana tribute to Working People of Flint #20003
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Apr 07, 2020 |
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Radio Free Flint Podcast: Voices from America's Heartland (Trailer)
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Apr 03, 2020 |
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Musician Rachel Cole: Flint Roots #20001
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Apr 03, 2020 |