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Wednesday, May 15, 2013  Flint Community Schools will let go of 139 teachers come June 10, the last day of school, but the teacher's union is holding out hope that number will be smaller.

Monday, May 13, 2013  The Wings will now move on and play the Chicago Blackhawks.

Wednesday, May 08, 2013  The Michigan Department of Education has accepted the Flint school board's deficit elimination plan that oulines how the district plans to get rid of $16 million in debt by 2016.

Wednesday, May 08, 2013  Area superintendents are working to assist the Buena Vista School District in getting students back to school.

Tuesday, May 07, 2013  It was a packed house at Buena Vista High School in the emergency meeting called by the school board and school administrators.

Tuesday, May 07, 2013  Buena Vista teachers are filing for unemployment after the entire district was laid off. District officials say they don't have the money to pay teachers.

Monday, May 06, 2013  Saginaw City Manager Darnell Earley presented his budget for the 2014 fiscal year to the mayor and council Monday.  It calls for a 55-officer police department and a 35-person fire department.

Friday, April 12, 2013  Citizens Bank changes owners today. (Friday)

Friday, March 08, 2013  GM workers, analysts and local business owners react to layoffs at GM's Engine Operations Plant in Flint.

Thursday, March 07, 2013  104 GM workers are being laid off from a Flint-based plant.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013  Upcoming layoffs are forcing the Saginaw Fire Department to make more cuts. The fire department says with fewer firemen, less space is needed to house them.

Saturday, February 23, 2013  Thirty nurses at McLaren Bay Region hospital in Bay City are losing their jobs.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013  Dozens of Saginaw residents attended a neighborhood forum Tuesday at Beacon of Hope Church to show support for their local law enforcement.

Monday, February 11, 2013  Singing, “The union makes us strong," hundreds of local United Auto Workers members donned white shirts to remember the Flint Sit-Down strike that ended on Feb. 11, 1937, when some 700 General Motors employees fought for better working conditions.

Wednesday, February 06, 2013  Talks about how to fund public safety in the city of Saginaw continue, after dozens of police officers and firefighters got pink slips last week.