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Marjory Raymer

Marjory Raymer

Marjory Raymer served as the founding publisher and managing editor of Flintside. She launched Flintside in March 2017 with a coalition of support from Flint's leading advocates and helped it grow into the Flint area's largest nontraditional news outlet with an online readership of more than 180,000 users.

An award winning journalist with more more than 20 years experience, she started her career as a political reporter with short stints at the Ionia Sentinel Standard and Traverse City Record Eagle, before coming to Flint in 2000. She climbed through the ranks and became the first woman to serve as editor of The Flint Journal. She went on to serve as news director for MLive and all 10 of its newsrooms statewide. Prior to launching Flintside, Raymer served as head of marketing and media relations at the University of Michigan-Flint. She left Flintside in November 2019 to serve as director of communications for the City of Flint.

Marjory Raymer's Latest Articles

Husband-wife team Spencer Ruegsegger and Kristy Bearse are planning to open an arcade bar inside the newly renovated Capitol Theatre in 2019.
New arcade bar set to open in downtown Flint in 2019

The arcade bar enters an already hopping booze scene in downtown Flint. No fewer than seven bars have opened downtown since the revitalization began 15 years ago — adding to several well-established mainstays.  

Shift and Floradora opened in May in the corner space of the Capitol Theatre.
Downtown Flint seeing dramatic increase in retail businesses

Downtown Flint in the last 15 years has undergone a dynamic transformation, but successful growth has mostly focused on food and drink or office and residential spaces — until now.

A rendering of the new 65,000-square-foot addition to the Murchie Science Building on UM-Flint's campus.
UM-Flint’s new science building ranks as downtown Flint’s largest-ever development

The $39 million expansion to the Murchie Science Building comes on the heels of a 58 percent increase in undergraduate students majoring in science, technology, engineering, and math at UM-Flint and a 350 percent increase in graduate-level studies.

Flint schools approve accountability measures, partnerships to improve performance

Flint Community Schools will work with six heavy hitters over the next 18 and 36 months to improve its performance or face consequences that could include closure.

2018 graduates of Flint Southwestern Academy pose for a photo with Community School Director Mohammed Aboutawila after graduation in June.
More than 300 Flint grads apply for Flint Promise scholarship

The scholarship pays for 100 percent of tuition, fees, and books for Flint students who graduated from a Flint public, private, or charter school. 

A screengrab from a video released Thursday, July 12, 2018, featuring prominent Flint people inviting Telsa Motors CEO Elon Musk to Flint
Hey, Elon: Consider yourself officially invited to Flint

In a 1-minute video aptly titled, “Hey Elon,” the billionaire owner of electric car maker Tesla Motors is invited — repeatedly — to come to Flint, to make good on his pledge to fix the city's water, and to see the city’s investment opportunities.  

Sylvester Broome Empowerment Village Executive Director Maryum Rasool gives a speech at the Sylvester Broome Empowerment Village Friday, June 29, 2018 in Flint.
Sylvester Broome Empowerment Village: A legacy, a beacon of hope, a new beginning

After years of investment to rebuild the facilities and programming, the northside community center officially celebrated its return to service for 500 young people every week.

Community members shovel dirt during a groundbreaking ceremony at the Flint Cultural Center Academy Tuesday, June 26th, 2018 in downtown Flint. The new public, nonprofit charter school will serve students in grades K-8.
Analysis: What the new, $35 million charter school means for Flint

The Flint Cultural Center Academy ranks as one of the largest-ever single educational investments in the city of Flint.

Community leaders and dignitaries broke ground on Tuesday, June 26, 2018, on the Flint Cultural Center Academy, a charter school being built through a $35 million donation from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. This image shows the east facade of
What you need to know about the Flint Cultural Center Academy

Get a sneak peek inside the 78,000-square-foot school now under construction in downtown Flint.

Kevelin B. Jones II, principal at Doyle-Ryder Elementary School, won the Putting Students First Award on Monday, June 5, 2018.
Kevelin B. Jones II comes home to Flint, becomes award-winning principal

Kevelin B. Jones II sat, shaking his head, still teary-eyed, looking down at the round, glass award in his hand. In some ways, it was a simple award — but it also clearly was so much more.  

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