he director of the Michigan Department of Civil Rights says the agency has taken steps to reduce bias that led to the public health crisis.
Flint water crisis
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Michigan lawmakers may require schools to test water for lead
House lawmakers voice bipartisan support for legislation to require schools, child care centers, colleges hospitals and veterans centers to test for lead and other contaminants.
Posted inChildren & Families
Preschool works wonders for Flint water crisis kids. But funding is running out.
An innovative – but expensive preschool – is showing dramatic gains for youths exposed to lead in Flint. Money for operations runs out next year.
Posted inMichigan Government
Flint Township tells the world: Please, don’t confuse us with Flint
Flint Township frustrated as effort to change the name, distance itself from city of the same name is stuck in legislature
Posted inChildren & Families
Soaring pneumonia deaths in Genesee County likely linked to undiagnosed Legionnaires’, experts say
Pneumonia was blamed for 177 deaths over two years. Experts say Legionnaires’ was likely the culprit in some of the deaths, but patients were never tested. The county is now requiring such testing.
Posted inMichigan Government
How long will Flint’s water chief remain unpaid?
Flint hired a former brigadier general to oversee replacement of its lead pipes. The Mott Foundation gave Flint money for his salary. So why hasn’t Michael McDaniel been paid? The answer tells you all you need to know about the slow pace of Flint’s recovery.
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Mott president on Flint: ‘You hit rock bottom multiple times’
Ridgway White says he is buoyed by the amount of philanthropic money flowing in to address Flint’s water crisis. But the Mott president tells Bridge he sees graver challenges in improving the city’s longer-term economic trajectory
Posted inChildren & Families
Beyond bottled water: Huge checks, slow progress test patience in Flint
Delivering pallets of water was the easy part. Now it gets messy, as various players jockey for position, balance competing interests and struggle with plans to repair the city and its people after a crisis like no other.
Posted inChildren & Families
Think America doesn’t give a damn about Flint? 15,000 donors disagree
15,000 donations have poured in to help Flint kids battling lead poisoning. One-dollar bills and five-figure checks arrive almost daily from schoolchildren and prison inmates, elderly widows and romance writers. Here are a few of their stories
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Flint 101: In business schools and seminars, a tough grade for Snyder
Michigan’s CEO governor is the subject of case studies and forums in which the culture in his administration is being compared with oil spills and the Challenger explosion.