By Dominic Adams
Flint -- Police from seven different local, (click here) county and state law enforcement agencies flooded the county on Thursday in search of 76 missing kids.
In total, police were able to locate 51 children, according to the Michigan State Police. Nine children were taken to the Genesee Valley Regional Center and one to Weiss Advocacy Center.
The children were those who were reported missing, who missed court dates or who had run away, police said...
..."This is the first time in the 20 years since I've been the sheriff that we've put a strikeforce team together of this magnitude involving law enforcement agencies from all over the county as well as social agencies, hospitals," said Genesee County Robert Pickell. "We've got 76 kids right now that are in potentially dangerous situations. We are concerned if they're not already being exploited that they're potential people to be exploited. The whole purpose of us here today is to protect these kids -- get them. It's a rescue mission in that sense."...
Initially, it might be expensive, but, everything worth doing sometimes is expensive. Once the projects to replace lead pipes is completed there won't be
anymore worry.
One has to put this into perspective. How much is a pregnancy worth? How much is a child's mind worth? How much is the public safety worth?
I think to minimize the change needed for today and the future such measures have to be taken. Water pipes aren't sexy and politicians like to bid for office with exciting ideas that will attract voters. Water is sexy. Water is vitally important. A successful political campaign can be launched to protect the public's health with permanent changes to the water system. There are more reasons to make these changes than not.
The truth cannot be sacrificed for a quick sexy high.
May 29, 2018
By Daniel C. Vock
Four years after the start of the Flint water crisis, (click here) Michigan state regulators are on the verge of approving some of the strictest rules in the country to reduce the risk of water-based lead poisoning. But local governments warn that the rules are needlessly expensive, likely unconstitutional and won’t necessarily improve public health.
Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) drafted the rules, which could officially take effect in the next two weeks. The most ambitious aspect of the regulations would require water utilities to replace all lead service lines (the pipes that connect water mains to buildings) within the next 20 years. Utilities would have to do the work and pay the costs for doing so, even if all or part of the line is privately owned, as most are.
State environmental regulators also want to lower the threshold of lead taken from home water samples that would trigger more scrutiny of a utility’s water system....
See there. WWKD otherwise stated, What Would Karen Do? She would take the bull by the horns and stand up for the good and moral decisions of the Flint City Council.
That is pretty sexy stuff. Sort of reminds me of Clint Eastwoods' Dirty Harry, "Make my day."
By Ron Folger
Flint -- Mayor Karen Weaver (click here) says she won't cooperate with new "unnecessary and unwarranted" state oversight of the Flint water system.
In a defiant letter to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, Weaver told the state she will not sign a consent order that would impose new deadlines for water system improvements, said she will request a hearing if the state attempts to impose the order and called the move "retaliatory and punitive."
"During two years of collaborative remediation efforts, an (administrative consent order) has not been necessary," Weaver wrote in a Monday, June 11, letter to the state. "Now, after the state and MDEQ have been publicly castigated for their abrupt and unilateral termination of bottled water funding, MDEQ proposes an ACO that raises no issues not previously agreed upon.
"I thus see this ACO as a deliberate and willful misuse of the DEQ's authority for political purposes and not a good faith effort to address the issues faced by the city of Flint."...
Caution: Rated XXXX : Stereotypes and color barrier. Children unaccompanied by a seriously liberated adult should not see this loop.
