Good News from Flint?

ISSUE

We're at the forefront of genuine socialist reform again, possibly in the most significant way since 1937...

...maybe...

Don't hold your breath on this one, but it's real enough to be worth listening. Don Williamson, Flint's controversial mayor, who I outright despised for a long, long time, and whom I am now regarding with a sort of guarded curiosity is evidently funding a nonprofit organization to make truck accessories, the proceeds of which will go to Flint. It will be a unionized organization through the UAW, will be located within Flint city limits, and will presumably draw its workforce from the city as well.

I think there are a lot of hurdles to this going through, and it may very likely fizzle up and die. However, I don't think I need to elaborate much on the significance of a municipal government owning a manufacturing company for the purpose of competing with for-profit ventures. It is, at least, an improvement from the grisly crimes and depressing school closings I'm usually writing people about.

Read the whole story here:
http://www.mlive.com/news/fljournal/index.ssf?/base/news-19/107729443188830.xml

~ Connor