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Now that Flint Emergency Manager Darnell Earley is facing the prospect of a year in prison for contempt, one wonders if he might be persuaded to work with prosecutors

By Mark | February 2, 2016

Yesterday, retired Michigan 36th District Court Judge Gregory Ellis “Greg” Mathis came right out and said what a lot of us have been thinking for a while now… that what happened in Flint has all the makings of a criminal case. The EMU-grad-turned-television-personality put it his way: “It appears that there’s criminal negligence here,” he […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics | Also tagged Congress, contempt, Darnell Earley, Detroit Public Schools, domestic terrorism, Elijah Cummings, Emergency Manager, Flint, Greg Mathis, Jason Chaffetz, lead, lead poisoning, Legionnaires' disease, Rick Snyder, terrorism, water | 12 Comments

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

By Mark | January 17, 2016

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 […]