Local author Thomas Lynch ruminates about Michigan's image in New York Times

Local author Thomas Lynch opines in the New York Times about how what is right in Michigan -- in Ann Arbor, Detroit and Lansing -- gets no ink, continually trumped by bad news.

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Alas, a triumph and gift that went unremarked-upon and unreviewed: no mention made, as far as I could tell, in the dailies in New York or Detroit or Ann Arbor. It is true: bad news gets halfway round the world before good news has its boots laced up. The easy litany of things gone wrong in Michigan gets more of a forum than what’s gone right.

Read the entire essay here.

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