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 […]
Minnesota is developing something called a “Water Bar,” which is designed to call attention to the inequalities in water supply all over the world. Even still, is such a thing insensitive to the crisis in Flint? Click on the audio player to hear more on this story in this edition of The Jazzy Report on The D.L. Hughley Show. […]
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 […]
Ryan Coogler, Ava DuVernay, Hannibal Buress, Jesse Williams, and Janelle Monáe appeared at the free fundraiser in Flint, Mich., to raise awareness and money to help assuage the city's water crisis, as well as bring attention to the human rights violations Flint residents have suffered.
The poisoning of the water supply in Flint, Michigan is clearly environmental terrorism for many, many reasons. Click on the audio player to hear more 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: Hundreds Of Plumbers Replaced Faucets And Installed Water Filters In […]
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on Wednesday proposed spending hundreds of millions more dollars to address Flint’s water crisis from lead contamination and to update pipes there and across the state — a plan that lawmakers from both parties generally welcomed as moving in the right direction with the proper priorities. Snyder’s […]
DETROIT (AP) — One lawsuit seeks to replace lead-leaching water lines at no cost to customers. Another seeks money for thousands of Flint residents who unwittingly drank toxic water. A third complaint has been filed on behalf of people with Legionnaires’ disease. While government officials scramble to rid Flint’s tap water of lead, victims are […]
Mathis went so far as to liken the poisoning of Flint to a terrorist attack, saying, “Everyday our Homeland Security -- their biggest fear and preparation is for terrorists poisoning the water. The Secretary of Defense talks nervously about that — well in this instance, our government has poisoned the water and it’s causing permanent damage.”
As the water crisis in Flint begins to gain national attention, many good-hearted famous people have stepped up and donated hundreds of thousands- even millions -of bottles of water to those who have been suffering. Click on the audio player to hear more about these amazing acts of kindness, in this edition of Human Being of the Week! […]
