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Flint’s Mayor declares state of emergency as lead poisoning cases increase in wake of water fiasco

By Mark | December 15, 2015

In hopes of attracting federal public health resources to Flint, where an alarmingly large portion of the population is suffering from lead poisoning as a result of the government’s mismanagement of water resources, the city’s new Mayor, Karen Weaver, declared a state of emergency last night. This comes just months after Flint’s Hurley Medical Center […]

Posted in Environment, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Andy Dillon, Brad Wurfel, Emergency Manager, Erin Brockovich, Flint, Flint River, Hurley Medical Center, Karegnondi Water Authority, lead, lead poisoning, Lee Anne Walters, Lindsey Smith, Marc Edwards, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, public health, public health emergency, Rick Snyder, state of emergency, water, water fountains | 38 Comments

PBS in Ypsi, the New York Times in Detroit, and a state in transition

By Mark | January 22, 2012

For those of you who haven’t seen it yet on PBS, Ypsi was featured on the most recent episode of Under the Radar Michigan. The crew, as you may recall, was here in town this past October, shooting footage of people lined up down Michigan Avenue, waiting to partake of the 40¢ chicken dinners that […]

Posted in Detroit, Ypsilanti | Also tagged cities, dismantling American cities, documentary film, Fishtown, Ford Foundation, globalization, Haab's, harbingers of things to come, Heidi Ewing, Leland, little people, manufacturing, Michigan's aging cities, Rachel Grady, ruin porn, scavenging, scrap, scrap metal, Tap Room, the future of American cities, threats to the middle class, Under the Radar Michigan, VIsteon | 11 Comments

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