Three poems
Editor’s note: Here is something a bit different from EVM — a sampling of thoughtful poems from one of our young neighbors. By Ruby Spademan Pretty Girls Eat Flowers She’s standing behind me. My neck in her hands and her mouth to my ear she whispers to me. She says I should only eat flowers. Pretty girls eat flowers. But counting calories means that flowers are not acceptable things and yet she tells me that...
Trees are good, everybody agrees, but money is scarce
By Jan Worth-Nelson One thing everybody agreed on last night at the Flint Area Public Affairs Forum at the Flint Public Library: trees are good. That was easy. But in matters of how to maintain them, how to assess them when they’re in aging decline, how to communicate with residents about removals, and especially how to replace them, the discussion hit some walls. The event, “City Trees: Pleasure or Peril?”...
Michigan Radio comes to Flint: good, bad, hopeful and angry narratives emerge
By Jan Worth-Nelson Is Flint a city rich with art, a beautiful recuperating river and a school district offering first-rate primary school education, or is it a traumatized community rife with fear, anger and damage, where nobody drinks the water? It turns out it’s both, according to presenters at a taping in front of a live audience for Michigan Radio at the Flint Institute of Arts Saturday night. The schizophrenia of that...
Calling town hall arrests “unfortunate,” Mayor disputes “separation of church and state” criticism
By Jan Worth-Nelson Responding to the discord and six arrests at a town hall last night at the House of Prayer Missionary Baptist Church, Mayor Karen Weaver said she found the events of the evening “unfortunate” but that assuring orderly process was necessary. Speaking today through her public information officer Kristin Moore, she said she did not know about the arrests until after the meeting was over. In a statement...
Commentary: Woodside pastor weighs in on town hall, separation of church and state
By Jan Worth-Nelson Following last night’s town hall in a North End sanctuary, one who responded was Deb Conrad, pastor of Woodside Church. In a personal blog post shared with East Village Magazine today, Conrad said, “the building isn’t the problem — city leadership is the problem.” At the end of the tumultuous meeting, six were ejected from the church and arrested for disruptive behavior, assaulting...
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