Flint Township, MI — With her black cat Ambrosia rolling around on the floor next to her, 61-year-old Laura Ward, bound to a wheelchair by Multiple Sclerosis (MS), howled with laughter as she cracked jokes with her caregiver Amie Wilson. “There’s a lot of people a lot worse off than I am,” Ward said. “I’m […]
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Michael is Flint Beat’s multimedia journalist. He joined the team as a corps member of Report for America, a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues. Before moving to Flint, Michael lived and worked throughout Northeast Ohio, reporting for The Land, a Cleveland-based nonprofit newsroom, and The Portager, a hyperlocal news website serving Portage County, Ohio. Get in touch with him at mindriolo@flintbeat.com or @mikeyindr on Instagram.