Tag Archives: Flint water crisis

I’ve got a cold and my sincerity meter is off. Can one of you please watch this video of Brian Calley talking about Flint for me and tell me what you think?

By Mark | March 21, 2016

Apparently this video of Michigan Lieutenant Governor Brian Calley talking about how awesome Flint is going to be now that the administration has finally agreed to do something about the deadly health care disaster they helped to create, came out a few days ago. My first inclination, as I’m watching it here in my sickbed, […]

Posted in Health, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged apology, Brian Calley, fake sincerity, lead, lead poisoning, Rick Snyder, Rudy Giuliani, sincerity, water | 11 Comments

With a number of staffers now confirming that Snyder not only knew of the toxic water situation in Flint a year ago, but had been asked to address it, all pretense of “plausible deniability” is gone

By Mark | February 26, 2016

Up until last night, when Rick Snyder’s office released an additional 2,528 pages of emails from his executive staff related to the Flint water crisis, I’d thought that our “let’s run government like a business” governor might possibly be able to escape the consequences of his actions. Now, though, I’m not so sure. Thanks to […]

Posted in Health, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Dennis Muchmore, Flint, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, lead poisoning, Legionnaires' disease, Lonnie Scott, Michael Dykehouse, Michael Gadola, plausible deniability, Progress Michigan, public health, Rick Snyder, Valerie Brader | 18 Comments

Was the road to Flint paved by frackers?

By Mark | February 16, 2016

A few weeks ago I posed a question here based on something Flint attorney Alec Gibbs had told me back in 2014 about the possible origins of the KWA pipeline. “Could the Flint water crisis have its origins in a desire to open up new areas of Michigan to fracking?,” I asked. And, since then, […]

Posted in energy, Environment, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alec Gibbs, American Cast Iron Pipe Company, Andy Dillon, Ed Kurtz, Flint, fracking, John Wilson, Karegnondi Water Authority, KWA, KWA pipeline, lead, Rick Snyder, Western Land Services | 14 Comments

The growing backlash against Rick Snyder on the streets of Ann Arbor

By Mark | February 15, 2016

Katrease Stafford has a piece in today’s Detroit Free Press about the growing backlash Rick Snyder has been encountering here in his hometown of Ann Arbor. Here, in case you’re interested, is my brief contribution to the discussion. Read the whole article if you have a chance. There’s lots of good stuff. Stafford spent all […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Mark's Life | Also tagged activism, brushes with fame, Detroit Free Press, Flint, Jennifer Scroggins, Katrease Stafford, lead, lead poisoning, Miles Larson, outrage, Rick Snyder, Susan Fecteau, USA Today | 18 Comments

The people of Flint tell their story to Congress, EMU faculty vote “no confidence” against their Regents, and The Black Opera contemplates a multimedia hip-hop tour to sow the seeds of social regeneration… on this weekend’s Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | February 11, 2016

When people call the Saturday Six Pack “the most ambitious little program on midwestern micro-watt AM” it’s shows like the one we have coming up this weekend that they’re thinking of. We’re not only going to be joined in the studio by hip-hop artist Jamall Bufford, who will be talking about the new multimedia project […]