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Thursday, May 16, 2013  Jane Park looks into what goes into fixing up a blighted home, putting it on the market and recruiting buyers who will invest in the city of Flint.

Thursday, February 21, 2013  The Genesee County Land Bank will be getting $3.7 million of the money

Friday, December 21, 2012  Nine public saftey officers will be added to the city's staff each patrolling a ward from now till June.

Friday, October 26, 2012  Arson is a problem facing many local communities especially over the halloween season but a yearly volunteer-driven event is detering arson in Saginaw.

Saturday, October 13, 2012  About 12:30 the Flint Fire Department responded to Chippewa Street near Louisa for an abandoned meat packaging plant.

Friday, September 14, 2012  The city of Flint will resume tearing down abandoned and condemned homes with federal grant dollars.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012  A new report out from the New Orleans Community Data Center, using data from the US Postal Service and HUD, suggests the number of unoccupied properties in Flint and Detroit combined exceeds the number that existed in New Orleans in the immediate years following Hurricane Katrina.

Thursday, August 16, 2012  Some concerned citizens are putting together their resources and knowledge to make Flint a better place to live.

Monday, July 30, 2012  An area of Flint is getting a facelift this week, thanks to the helping hands of numerous youth groups.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012  Genesee County demolished over 1,000 abandoned homes in 2011 through a program called the Neighborhood Stabilization Program, and it provided millions for communities with blight problems, like Flint to demolish those homes.

Wednesday, May 09, 2012  Forty lucky dogs abandoned by several midwestern puppy mills have safely arrived in Fenton.

Tuesday, April 03, 2012  The group wants the city to adopt a foreclosure maintenance policy, which would hold banks that own foreclosed properties accountable if those properties become an eysore.

Monday, December 19, 2011  Mt. Morris Township police are asking for the public's help in tracking down two bank robbery suspects who held up a Security Credit Union on Pierson Road Monday morning around ten o-clock.

Thursday, December 01, 2011  Six people face charges of setting summer fires

Tuesday, October 25, 2011  A record 775 homes have been demolished in the city of Flint in the last  year.  It's a record according to Flint Mayor Dayne Walling.