FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Sipping filtered city water to show it’s again drinkable, President Barack Obama promised Wednesday to ride herd on leaders at all levels of government until every drop of water flowing into homes in Flint, Michigan, is safe to use. He also promised that the aging pipes that contaminated the water with […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is set to meet with residents of Flint, Michigan, to hear how they’re managing after lead from old pipes tainted their drinking water. And he is bringing a message to Flint on Wednesday: a promise for change. Obama declared a state of emergency in mid-January and ordered federal aid […]
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Half a century after a civil rights panel investigated Flint’s segregated housing, the commission held its first hearing Thursday into whether city residents again faced discrimination or racial bias — this time related to the city’s crisis over lead-tainted drinking water. Dozens of Flint residents spoke before the Michigan Civil Rights […]
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder should be ashamed of himself. Snyder is staging a shameless damage control ploy to show that he is taking charge of a serious water poisoning crisis in Flint, which has resulted in children being irreversibly harmed after drinking lead-contaminated water. The governor says now that the water is safe to drink, […]
We’ve all been wondering who would pay – especially the people of Flint, Michigan – for that city’s disastrous water crisis. Now is the reckoning time and the people of Flint are one step closer to getting answers; answers to the question – who’s to blame for poising the water? Three government employees now […]
The Michigan Attorney General says this is just the beginning and that more charges are to come.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s attorney general will announce criminal charges Wednesday against two state regulators and a Flint employee, alleging wrongdoing related to the city’s lead-tainted water crisis, according to government officials familiar with the investigation. The charges — the first levied in a probe that is expected to broaden — will be filed against […]
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan would have the toughest lead-testing rules in the nation and require the replacement of all underground lead service pipes in the state under a sweeping plan that Gov. Rick Snyder and a team of water experts unveiled Friday in the wake of Flint’s water crisis. Other proposals include requiring utilities […]
A recent study shows that lead poisoning in early childhood has strong links to crime rates. And apparently, these findings aren’t new. Click on the audio player to hear more on this story in this edition of The Jazzy Report on The D.L. Hughley Show. Listen to the “The D.L. Hughley Show” LIVE weekdays 3-7 p.m. EST! RELATED: Why […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The state-appointed emergency manager who oversaw Flint, Michigan when its water source was switched to the Flint River says he relied on state and federal experts, but the experts failed him and the city of some 100,000 people. Darnell Earley says in prepared testimony for the first of two congressional hearings that […]
A native of Flint, Michigan, Dr. Eshe Faizah is more than concerned about the #FlintWaterCrisis. She plans to address the deadly situation from a empowerment standpoint teaching parents and children of Flint the natural methods to heal the city naturally. She says there are several food detox methods that can move as many toxins from their body. My sister told me […]
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A lawsuit stemming from Flint’s lead-contaminated water was filed Monday on behalf of the city’s residents against Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder as well as other current and former government officials and corporations. The federal lawsuit — which is seeking class-action status — alleges that tens of thousands of residents have suffered […]
