Archive for the 'Flint' Category
Understanding Gereral Motors
General Motors is an odd duck of a corporation. It has always been a bit unwieldy and too big for itself. And while it can be argued that there are bigger companies and groups that work well enough “despite their size,” I’m arguing from the angle that a marriage can be too big if the [...]
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G.M. Shifts Focus to Small Cars in Sign of Sport Utility Demise
That’s right, friends, General Motors, the champion of the SUV and owner of the Hummer, is now closing down some SUV factories and working to produce smaller cars!
Thing is, seems every time GM (or ANY USA domestic producer) tries to produce smaller cars they [...]
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Auto-ameri-dammerung
Ford has been reported as running their factories on single shift and laying off their workers for three-four weeks a shift. General Motors has laid off people all over and is trying to buy out the rest of the workers with a decent amount of seniority. And now Chrysler’s trying to draw people into their [...]
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Kinda disturbing, looking at the billboard advertisements and realizing all the radio stations around here are either owned by Clear Channel, Infinity Broadcasting, Bonneville International or some other multinational, with a smattering of local-owned stations. Needless to say, the music from these stations has been getting lamer and plainer over the past few years.
Mind you, [...]
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There’s a big blank spot in the north side of Flint.
It used to be a factory. Once the largest Automobile factory in the world.
Between North Street and the Flint River (actually Industrial Street, but Industrial Street had long been taken over and obliterated by some 1980’s updating) stood a three-story blond brick building that had [...]
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Remembering Downtown Flint
I was only three years old when “Genesee Towers” was completed, so that building has been a part of Flint as long as I can remember. I can also remember when there were a lot more buildings up and down Saginaw Street and the streets alongside it, and when the buildings up and down it [...]
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Gifts for Bosses? What Happened?
It was a news item I heard on the radio about the number of companies giving Xmas bonuses to their employees going down drastically, talking about how many companies were getting away from “a Gift for everyone” and going towards “performance-based bonuses” (read: away from the proles and towards upper management, because everyone knows they [...]
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