Tuesday, June 30, 2009

High Ideals for Flint's Rebirth



WMRP, FLINT, MICHIGAN, 1950, where my less than spectacular almost 50 years in radio started. Was I cute, or what? That station no longer exists. Most of the stations I worked at are long gone. I don't think I killed them. Things changed. Flint is still there,more or less, its once great auto factories all gone.
Like Detroit, Flint is in deep trouble. But there's a creative write-in mayoral candidate who has it all figured out. Ronald Higgerson proposes to turn the recently closed Flint Central High School building into a big plant. I use "plant" advisedly. The particular plant is marijuana. That's right, If Higgerson gets the votes, good old Flint Central will become a big medical marijuana growing factory, employing hundreds, pulling Flint out of its doldrums and presumably making its clients feel real good. I learned of this through Gordon Young's great site of interest to us who lived and worked in Flint in better days. Flint Expatriates.
Does Michael Moore know about this?

2 comments:

  1. The citizens of the City of Flint will turn Central into a cannabis research center. where people with PHd and master degrees type people can study medical cannabis. We need to help medical patients. The reporter was wrong in stating that i wanted to grow cannabis in Central.
    Go here for what i am about.
    http://ronaldhiggerson.blogspot.com/
    No wacky out there idea's. Medical research is a valid, moral and ethical path.
    peace,
    Ronald Higgerson

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  2. I stand corrected. Thank you for the clarification.

    Clif Martin

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