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Inside Dana Nessel’s ‘shit show’ Flint water investigation
Ignored legal warnings, ‘overwhelmed’ prosecutors, and the secret testimony of ex-Governor Snyder’s chief of staff
By Jordan Chariton
Tags: Investigations, Crime, Government, News, Flint Water Crisis, Flint water crisis, Dana Nessel, Rick Snyder, Dennis Muchmore, Todd Flood
Flint STILL has a water crisis — 9 years later
Jordan Chariton reports from Flint on the 9th anniversary of the water crisis and cover up
Tags: Michigan News, Flint Water Crisis, Views & Opinions, Flint water crisis, Dana Nessel, Rick Snyder
Judge approves $600 million settlement over Flint water crisis
It’s the largest settlement in Michigan history
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Michigan News, News, Flint Water Crisis, Flint, Flint water crisis, Michigan, Dana Nessel, lawsuits, lead, Michigan Attorney General, Genesee County, Genesee County Circuit Court
Michigan earns ‘F’ for failing to protect children from lead contamination at schools
About 1,500 kids under 6 in Detroit test positive for elevated levels of lead every year
Tags: Michigan News, News, Lead, lead poisoning, Michigan, State Senate, legislation, Filter First, Flint water crisis, Environment America Research & Policy Center, U.S. Public Research Interest Group Education Fund
‘Flint is still broken’ residents say ahead of federal court hearing
Advocates demand the city finish replacing pipes three years after missed deadline
By Randiah Camille Green
Tags: Michigan News, Flint Water Crisis, Flint water crisis, Detroit, Flint Rising, Michigan United
Attorney for Oxford victims blasts governmental immunity for protecting negligent employees
Public officials are largely shielded from lawsuits, making it difficult to hold them accountable
Tags: Michigan News, News, Oxford High School, Ven johnson, flint water crisis, lawsuit, governmental immunity, attorneys, court, Michigan
Federal judge drops Flint water crisis charges against Snyder
The former governor had been charged with two misdemeanor counts of willful neglect of duty
By Allison Donahue, Michigan Advance
Tags: Michigan News, Flint Water Crisis, Flint water crisis, Rick Snyder
Flint water prosecutors try to resurrect charges against former officials
After a judge dismissed charges against those linked to the scandal, prosecutors aim to appeal
Tags: Michigan News, Flint Water Crisis, Flint, Flint Water Crisis, Rick Snyder, Dana Nessel, Michigan Supreme Court, grand jury, appeal, Michigan Attorney General
Jackson, Miss., water crisis has parallels with Flint and Benton Harbor, Michigan leaders and activists say
‘This is racism — environmental racism at its finest’
By Ken Coleman, Michigan Advance
Tags: Michigan News, Flint Water Crisis, Flint water crisis, water, environment, environmental racism, Jackson, Mississippi, Benton Harbor
Flint water prosecution of Snyder, 8 others moving forward despite recent setback
Prosecutors say they are still committed ‘to keep fighting for the people of Flint’
Tags: Michigan News, Flint Water Crisis, Rick Snyder, Flint, Flint water crisis, environmental racism, Solicitor General, Fadwa Hammoud, Wayne County Prosecutor, Kym Worthy, Michigan Supreme Court
Supreme Court wipes out ‘invalid’ Flint water crisis charges against Snyder, 8 others
It remains unclear why Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy recommended using the extremely rare, century-old practice of the one-judge grand jury in the case
By Laina G. Stebbins, Michigan Advance
Tags: Michigan News, Flint Water Crisis, Rick Snyder, Flint, Flint water crisis
Petition demands justice and accountability for victims of Flint water crisis
The Flint water crisis and the response to it are evidence that systemic racism still exists, civil rights organization says
Tags: Michigan News, News, Flint water crisis, Rick Snyder, Charles Williams II, National Action Network, petition, racism
Prosecutors stopped pursuing racketeering case against public officials over Flint water crisis, according to report
Tags: Michigan Attorney General, Dana Nessel, Flint, Flint water crisis, Michigan, pollution, Bill Schuette
Benton Harbor water crisis is the ‘ultimate inexcusable repeat of history,’ 3rd lawsuit says
By Anna Gustafson, Michigan Advance
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Flint Water Crisis, Flint Water Crisis, Benton Harbor Water Crisis, Water Crisis, tap water, Benton Harbor, Flint, lawsuit, Michigan Advance
Judge allows Flint water lawsuit against engineering company to proceed
Tags: Flint, Flint water crisis, Veolia North America, lawsuit, U.S. District Court, pollution, lead, Judge Judith Levy
Parker James: Michigan leaders must take action to protect children from lead
By Parker James, Michigan Advance
Tags: Michigan Advance, Lead, Flint Water Crisis, Benton Harbor Water Crisis, Benton Harbor, Flint, children
Former Flint mayor says judge-approved $626 million settlement for Flint is nowhere near enough
By Lee DeVito
Tags: Flint water crisis, Benton Harbor, Hamtramck, Michigan, Whitmer, Karen Weaver
In Benton Harbor’s water crisis, a long history of systemic racism — and a chance for justice
Tags: MIchigan Advance, Benton Harbor, water crisis, Benton Harbor Water Crisis, Flint Water Crisis
Former Flint mayor accuses Whitmer, Nessel of helping Snyder 'get away with murder'
Tags: Flint water crisis, Karen Weaver, Status Coup
House Oversight Committee investigating new allegations in Flint water crisis cover-up report by Metro Times
Tags: Flint water crisis, Rick Snyder, Michigan
Michigan’s ‘Bikers, Buds, & Brews’ taps Marcy Playground and Soul Asylum
Detroit illegally inflated taxes on lowest value homes, study suggests
Detroit’s ‘NSFW’ art and music exhibit is not what you think