Flint was once known as "Vehicle City", an auto manufacturing center for General Motors' Chevrolet and Buick division.
Its population peaked at 196,940 in 1960 and has since declined 60%.
Population: Wikipedia
Headline: mlive, 7/17/2025
Gus Burns reports:
Flint police couldn’t immediately provide statistics related to MLive requests for information on council meeting removals or arrests, but 6th ward Councilwoman Tonya Burns said she’s keeping tabs. According to her count, more than 80 residents have been forcibly removed from Flint City Council meetings since 2023. [snip]
Burns feels the response is too heavy-handed and residents have good reason to be mad. She pointed to the Flint Water Crisis, which was triggered by the Flint’s 2014 water source switch to the Flint River. The new water source was not treated to make it less corrosive to lead pipes and home plumbing, allowing lead to leach into water used for drinking, bathing and every day use.
“They didn’t ask to be poisoned,” Burns said. Some water is “still the color of iced tea, we have job loss, a number of children live in poverty … no one has been paid for being poisoned by the water (and) we have a high rate of cancer.
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