March 22, 2019
By Steve Carmody
Friday is World Water Day. (click here)
In Flint, nearly five years after the city’s disastrous drinking water switch, activists are calling for more to be done to help city residents recover from Flint’s lead-tainted tap water crisis.
Members of the group, Color of Change, carried boxes containing 15,000 petition signatures into Flint city hall to mark World Water Day.
The petitions call for government help replacing damaged indoor pipes and water heaters in Flint homes....
March 22, 2019
By Robert Acosta
Flint - Tech billionaire Elon Musk has landed in Flint. (click here)
The Space X and Tesla CEO is taking part in an assembly on Friday, March 22 with students at Doyle-Ryder Elementary School that comes months after a pair of donations to the district.
Those donations made in the past six months -- through the Musk Foundation established in 2002 by Elon Musk with brother Kimbal -- have included $423,600 for the school district to buy Chromebooks for middle school students as they move into the former Flint Northern High School as part of a secondary school restructuring plan.
