Tag: Michigan

In severity of health damage, media staying power, and political indefensibility, the Flint, MI lead poisoning looms as a national turning point. What disgrace better spotlights Republican government poisoning one hundred thousand of its own people -- failed austerity at its worst? Rarely does stupid and wasteful, if not immoral, merge so dramatically.

State employees Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budgets were notified of Flint's water not being up to federal standards and were provided with clean water a year before residents of the city.

If you want to help Flint, sign the petition, demand that the federal government take action and then get involved yourself, wherever you live, so that this doesn’t happen to you—and so that the people we elect know they can no longer break the law as they rule by fiat or indifference.

"We've created this complex, no responsibility regulatory system."

The water crisis in Flint, Michigan is bringing together some strange bedfellows in the name of helping a situation we all can relate to.

The official in charge of America’s Midwest region may have resigned, but the EPA is not solely to blame.

Perhaps it is inevitable, but it is a shame that some people are gaming out how to profit politically from the lead poisoning of the children of Flint, Mich.

Earlier this month a State of Emergency was declared and the National Guard was called in to Flint to help with the ongoing crisis.

An apology doesn’t change the health effects that Flint residents are seeing as a result of the elevated levels of lead in their water.

You might have heard that there is lead in Flint, Michigan's water.