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Rick Snyder, who spent his first six years in office laying waste to checks and balances, blames the Flint water crisis on the lack of sufficient checks and balances

He’s still not as open as I’d like, but, based on the National Journal interview with Rick Snyder that was just posted, it would appear that our Governor is beginning to accept the fact that this isn’t just going to go away, and that he needs to start actually answering questions. I still don’t like […]

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This is why we use the word “coverup” when talking about the Flint water crisis

In 1991, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a regulation to control the levels of lead and copper in American drinking water. This regulation, which is known as the Lead and Copper Rule (LCR), required that, by January 1, 1997, “public water systems serving more than 50,000 people… survey their own corrosion control systems and […]

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The Feds are investigating the Snyder administration’s role in poisoning the children of Flint

On December 31, the editors of the Flint Journal printed an editorial asking Governor Snyder to go beyond just apologizing for the public health emergency caused by his administration Flint and open up state records to federal investigators, so it could be determined how it came to pass that the people of Flint were not […]

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Snyder appointed task force deflects blame from Governor in Flint water crisis, identifies scapegoat

For those of you who don’t follow the news over the holidays, choosing instead to focus on family and football, there was a significant development in the Flint water saga between Christmas and New Year’s Day… The task force Govern Sndyer appointed to figure out what happened in Flint that left an alarming number of […]

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Rachel Maddow lays the Flint water public health emergency at the feet of Governor Rick Snyder

Apparently I wasn’t the only one who got pissed off a few days ago, when hearing Michigan Governor Rick Snyder suggest that the kids in Flint who are suffering from lead poisoning could have been poisoned not by the actions of his administration, which knowingly continued sending lead tainted water into their homes, but by […]

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