It has been said that good and bad things happen in groups of three.
This week, the bad incidents are occurring more often.
The first notice of sadness is the Flint Journal announcing it will only be printing three editions a week – Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays – starting in June. The Journal has chronicled life in the Flint area throughout our entire lifetime, as well as the parents of us baby boomers (since 1876).
It is even sadder after hearing a third of the Staff either will be or has been laid off. I wonder what will happen to those of us who foolishly paid for a year’s subscription three months ago.
This is not the only newspaper casualty in Michigan. The Journal’s sister papers, The Saginaw News and Bay City Times, also will cut back on production. In addition, the Ann Arbor News recently announced it will publish its final edition in July.
The second event was the passing of baseball legend George Kell. Although I was not old enough to have watched him play, I did grow up listening to his voice on the radio and enjoying him on television from 1959 through the 2000’s.
Kell and Ernie Harwell are the voices of our generation for the Detroit Tigers.
Well, the third shoe will drop before the end of the week. Let’s just hope it is not a bad heavy thud.
