October 13, 2017
By Ron Fonger

Flint, MI -- The Lifetime network's new film about the Flint water crisis (click here) is scheduled to premiere here Oct. 21, and tickets are available now on a first-come, first-served basis.

Ashley Schoen, marketing and media relations manager for The Whiting, said those interested in the free tickets should call the box office at 810-237-7333.

The red carpet premiere of Flint is scheduled for Oct. 21, a week before the film is scheduled to premiere on Lifetime at 8 p.m. on Oct. 28.

Shot in Toronto, 'Flint' stars Queen Latifah, Betsy Brandt, Jill Scott, Lyndie Greenwood and Marin Ireland.

A media alert from Lifetime says Brandt, Flint water activists Melissa Mays and Nayyirah Shariff, and executive producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are scheduled to attend the screening and a meet and greet at The Whiting.

The film screening is scheduled after red carpet arrivals end at 7:20 p.m. Oct. 21, according to the announcement.

C-Span:

Flint, Michigan Drinking Water Contamination (click here)

Gina McCarthy and Governor Rick Snyder (R-MI) testified at a hearing on the Safe Drinking Water Act and lead contamination of the water supply in Flint, Michigan. Governor Snyder apologized and said he was not aware that the water had dangerous levels of lead until October 2015. Ms. McCarthy defended the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), saying her agency did all it could do within the rule of law. During the hearing, several committee members called on both Governor Snyder and Ms. McCarthy to resign.

October 12, 2017
By Paul Egan

The top Republican and Democrat (click here) on a congressional committee sent Gov. Rick Snyder a letter Thursday, inviting him to correct or supplement his sworn testimony in 2016 related to the Flint drinking water crisis and reminding him about federal perjury law.

But in a reply letter, Snyder told the lawmakers he testified truthfully and stands by what he said.

U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, the Republican chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, who is the ranking Democrat on the committee, wrote to Snyder in light of sworn testimony earlier this month by a Snyder aide. That testimony contradicted what Snyder told the committee about when he learned of a spike in Legionnaires' disease cases in the Flint area.

Snyder, who testified under oath in Washington, D.C., when the lead contamination of Flint's drinking water was in the national spotlight, told the committee he learned about the Legionnaires' disease outbreaks one day before he made the health issue public at a Jan. 13, 2016, news conference....