October 31, 2018
By Stephanie Ebbs
Three years after local doctors in Flint, Michigan, (click here) warned of dangerously high lead levels in children, at least 4 million U.S. households still are exposed to high levels of lead as about half a million kids have tested positive for lead in their blood, the Centers for Disease Control said.
A significant number of children with lead poisoning are showing up in cities around the country, including in Syracuse, New York, where 11 percent of kids tested last year had elevated levels in their blood, according to the local health department.
Just this week, The New York Times reported officials in Newark, New Jersey, began distributing water filters after previously saying there wasn't a lead problem with local water. Drawing parallels to Flint, the Times reported a study found water treatment in Newark was failing and 25 percent of children tested showed elevated levels of lead last year....
November 1, 2018
By Zahra AhmadFLINT, MI--
A TV judge (click here) made good on a promise and returned to Flint Thursday to distribute bottled water. He also promised to keep bringing in bottled water until every lead pipe is replaced.
"This fight is not done. We are back and we will continue to come back," Judge Greg Mathis said."The clean water will continue to flow in, even if I have to pay out of my pockets when the donations stop, we're going to keep the cases of water coming until every lead pipe is replaced."
Mathis, along with Flint clergy, other community organizers and citizens, caravanned from Detroit to Flint - collecting bottled water along the way to distribute in Flint.
"I'm angry that we've been abandoned and neglected after the struggle, the lobbying, after securing $200 million in state and federal government funds and we're still being told to drink the water," Mathis said. "I want you to channel that anger to Election Day."
Mathis' rally took place at 6 p.m. on Nov. 1 at Quinn Chapel AME Church, 2101 Lippincott Blvd. in Flint. Flint Mayor Karen Weaver was in attendance as well as 5th District Congressman Dan Kildee....
