The Mitten Channel
The Mitten Channel is a Michigan podcast and media network created by former Genesee County Prosecutor Arthur Busch.
We produce original programs that blend legal expertise, investigative storytelling, and deep Michigan history — including true crime analysis, environmental investigations, employee rights, and rich biographies rooted in Flint’s working-class culture.
Our mission is to preserve Michigan stories, examine the systems that shape our communities, and give voice to the people who define our industrial past and future.
Mitten Channel Podcast Shows: Radio Free Flint, Flint Justice, The Mitten Works, Mitten Environmental and The Mitten Biography Project
To listen to full audio podcast interviews visit https://www.radiofreeflint.media
Radio Free Flint is a production of the Mitten Channel where you can find podcast shows Mitten Environmental, Flint Justice, The Mitten Works.
Episodes
119 episodes
The Age of Anxiety: Political Media, Dementia, and the Boomer Fear
The Age of Anxiety: Political Media, Dementia, and the Boomer FearIn Michigan living rooms—from Flint to Saginaw to small towns up north—older Americans watch political news that feels less like reporting and more like a public tr...
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Season 6
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Episode 10
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7:20
Inside Detroit’s 99th Thanksgiving Parade:On-the-Ground Coverage by Arthur Busch
Join Arthur Busch on location in downtown Detroit as he takes you inside the magic of the 99th Annual America’s Thanksgiving Parade. In this special field-report episode, Arthur walks Woodward Avenue, captures the sights and sounds of th...
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Season 6
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Episode 6
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8:32
She Dodged Bullets for the UAW — and Her Legacy Still Haunts the Auto Industry
In 1937, a 23-year-old Flint woman stood between General Motors security, Flint police gunfire, and the workers fighting for their lives inside Fisher Body.Her name was Genora Johnson Dollinger — and she did more than rally the Women’s Emer...
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Season 6
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Episode 9
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17:52
When Flint Fought Back: Genora Johnson and the Strike That Changed America
In 1937, a 23-year-old Flint woman stood between General Motors security, Flint police gunfire, and the workers fighting for their lives inside Fisher Body. Her name was Genora Johnson Dollinger — and she did more than rally the...
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Season 6
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Episode 6
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0:54
DETROIT RISING: A Photo Tour of Motor City's Amazing Comeback | The Mitten Channel
Welcome to the Detroit comeback. With a voice as warm and familiar as the streets themselves, we take a tour of the Motor City's stunning revitalization. From the iconic RenCen and the architecture of the Whitney Building to the v...
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Season 6
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Episode 8
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2:44
Flint’s 1937 Sit-down Strike Saved Wages, Work, and Democracy
The Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936–37 wasn’t just a labor dispute — it was a turning point in American history. In this short documentary segment, former Genesee County Prosecutor Arthur Busch breaks down what really happened inside the F...
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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0:59
The Michigan Murderer: John Norman Collins and the Ypsilanti Terror
He was handsome, popular, and lived the perfect fraternity life in Ann Arbor. But behind John Norman Collins’s all-American image lurked one of Michigan’s darkest secrets.In the late 1960s, a series of brutal murders terrorized the colle...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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23:57
Flint’s Coney Island Legacy: The Immigrant Story Behind a Michigan Icon
Few Flint residents know that one of the city’s most beloved traditions began with immigrants from a tiny mountain village in North Macedonia.In this episode of Radio Free Flint, host Arthur Busch welcomes Karen...
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Season 3
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Episode 29
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36:32
Why I Leave Michigan Every Winter (And What It Says About Us)
What’s a “Snowbird,” really—and why do millions of Americans and Canadians head south every winter? In this video essay, Arthur Busch—former Genesee County Prosecutor and host of Radio Free Flint—shares why he became a Snowbird a...
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Season 3
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Episode 34
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13:27
The Golden Age: Flint Community Schools
Good school districts are more than a function of how much money they collect from taxpayers. Schools must connect with the community where they are located in ways that go beyond math, science and reading. Flint, Michigan a...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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36:20
Electronic Drone Musician Hauras: A Song for Flint, Michigan
Our guest is musician Howard Ryan, a native of Wisconsin who now lives in San Francisco, California. Ryan, also known as Hauras composed a song, "Flint, Michigan," intending to make a social statement about the problems of the beleaguered rust ...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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18:10
Conservation and Sustainable Food Growing in Michigan
Our podcast guest is Daniel Moilanen, a Fenton area native now living in Flint. Dan is currently the Executive Director of the Michigan Association of Conservation Districts (MACD). His leadersh...
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Season 3
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Episode 37
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28:17
Potholes, Roads and the Future of a Michigan Rustbelt Town
We discuss how the roads got so bad and how to fix the problem with road and infrastructure expert Dr. John Daly. Michigan has a significant problem with its roads and bridges. The state has one of the highest numbers of structur...
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Season 3
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Episode 34
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36:41
Midnight in the Vehicle City: The Strike Heard Around the World
Midnight in Vehicle City by author Edward McClelland is a book that tells the story of Flint, Michigan, during the Great Recession and the struggles of its residents as they try to survive in a city that has been hit hard by the economic downtu...
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Season 3
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Episode 35
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33:33
George Winters — A Michigan Music Life: Flint, Davison & The Red Piano
A Michigan original. A musical storyteller. A man who made a lifetime of memories from behind a piano.In this episode, we sit down with George Winters, the beloved “Red Piano Man” from Flint and Davison. George is a lifelong music...
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Season 3
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Episode 33
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34:13
In Flint They Don't Name the Streets for Us
This is a conversation with Sarah Carson about her book of poems, How to Baptize a Child, in Flint, MI. Carson's poems are a jarring portrayal of life in a declining, once mighty, and still proud American rustbelt town, Flint, Michigan.&...
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Season 3
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Episode 32
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25:58
Emily Doerr: What Can Be Done To Fix Flint's Schools?
Emily Doerr is a candidate for the Flint Community Schools Board of Education. The election will be on November 8, 2022. She joined a slate of four other individuals running to serve the Flint Community Schools. These candidates agree on core p...
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Season 3
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Episode 31
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23:36
Bryan McCree: A Flintstone Comedian With Joy in His Bones
Stand-up comic Bryan McCree shares Flint stories, family humor, and the Michigan grit behind a life on stage. Is it possible to make Flint laugh? If anyone can, it’s Bryan McCree — nationally touring comedian, ...
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Season 3
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Episode 30
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30:57
Prep School Transfers Impact Flint Prep Hoops and Culture
Flint, Michigan, has long been touted as a hotbed for high school basketball. Indeed, Flint has produced some of the top basketball talents in the nation. Many Flint athletes are playing in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and at major...
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Season 3
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Episode 28
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34:46
The 2017 Bishop Airport Terror Attack: Chief Chris Miller Tells the Inside Story
In this episode of Radio Free Flint, retired Public Safety Director Chris Miller recounts one of the most shocking events in Flint’s recent history — the 2017 terrorist attack inside Bishop International Airport.Miller desc...
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Season 3
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Episode 27
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39:04
Keeping Old Documents,Photos and Donating Your Treasures
In our highly mobile society, figuring out what to do with our old papers, photographs, and keepsakes is challenging. We accumulate boxes of possessions over a lifetime, and when moving, retiring, or upon the death of a parent it sits in your h...
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Season 3
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Episode 26
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25:15
A Conversation with Genesee Historical Center Archivist Colleen Marquise
Colleen Marquise, Associate Archivist at the University of Michigan-Flint, Francis Willson-Thompson Library, takes podcast listeners on a virtual tour of the Genesee County (MI) Historical Center archive collection. This historical collection...
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Season 3
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Episode 25
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26:40
Flint’s Civil War Heroes: The Story of the 10th Michigan Infantry
Flag Day Special — The Untold Story of Flint’s Civil War Soldiers and the battle flags that led them through America’s defining conflict.In the American Civil War, 90,000 Michigan soldiers marched into battle. Among them we...
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Season 1
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Episode 50
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41:02
Ben Pauli: Democracy and the Flint Water Crisis
Ben Pauli, a Kettering University Political Science Professor, is a water rights activist. Pauli embedded himself with a group of Flint residents during the Flint Water Crisis. This is the group that brought the tainted Flint drinking water pro...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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35:59
