Michigan Association of Health Plans and Associate of State and Territorial Health Officials need to have their non-profit status pulled for committing fraud to adversely effect the health and well being of Michiganders.
The standards set for clear and healthy water were set a long time ago. There was gross neglect by the Snyder administration that caused deaths and injuries. Enough of the corruption of the Snyder administration in Michigan.
By Ron Fonger
Flint -- Two nonprofit organizations (click here) say the criminal prosecution of the state’s top health official will lead to additional loss of life in the state.
In legal briefs filed this week in support of Nick Lyon, director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Service, the Michigan Association of Health Plans and Association of State and Territorial Health Officials ask Genesee Circuit Judge Joseph Farah to dismiss charges related to the Flint water crisis, including involuntary manslaughter.
“The threat of criminal prosecution will likely paralyze professional decision-making by Michigan healthcare officials,” the brief from MAHP says. “That paralysis will result in, for example, delays in the provision of potentially life-saving or life-extending drugs.”......
December 26, 2018
By Paul Egan
Flint — Two Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) (click here) officials pleaded no contest to misdemeanors Wednesday and agreed to testify against other defendants in the criminal cases arising from the Flint drinking water crisis.
Michael Prysby, 55, of Bath and Stephen Busch, 42, of DeWitt are the fifth and sixth defendants — out of 15 charged through the state Attorney General's Office — to enter pleas to criminal charges with connection to Flint.
All the pleas to date have been no contest pleas to misdemeanors with agreements to cooperate. No contest pleas are treated similarly to guilty pleas for sentencing purposes.
Todd Flood, the Flint prosecutor hired by the Attorney General's Office, said he was accepting the pleas because of "substantial assistance being given to move the ball down the field in the Flint water investigation."
Sentencing dates for Prysby and Busch are Jan. 23....
December 27, 2018
Governor-elect Gretchen Whitmer (click here) is pledging to make sure Flint residents have access to clean drinking water.
Whitmer’s transition team says she will work with Flint Mayor Karen Weaver.
It’s all to make sure Flint residents have access to clean and safe drinking water in the future.
Nestle has already agreed to provide free bottled water until April.
"In 2015 and '14 I was one of the people working hard, carrying all that water into the churches and to the pods so people can have clean water," said Terence Grundy, Flint resident.
He said getting bottled water has been a little tricky since all of the government-run water distribution sites closed.
Grundy said he was excited after hearing a media report that Whitmer had promised to resume state-funded bottled water distribution....
December 27, 2018
By Mallory Pearson
Flint - Bill Welch (click here) has been delivering mail since the age of 17 and is now retiring nearly 50 years later.
"It was just a job back then. I never thought it would last this long," Welch said.
He is saying goodbye after nearly 50 years with the U.S. Postal Service.
"They don't want me to go. They want to bribe me to stay," Welch said.
He has been delivering the mail on the same route to the same people for 26 years. He calls them just as much family to him as the people he works with every day.
"Just missing everybody here and everybody on the route," Welch said. "It will be hard."
He has been telling people on his routes that he'll see them some time, somewhere.
Welch's retirement won't be hard just for him to adjust....
December 26, 2018
By Paul Egan
Flint — Two Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) (click here) officials pleaded no contest to misdemeanors Wednesday and agreed to testify against other defendants in the criminal cases arising from the Flint drinking water crisis.
Michael Prysby, 55, of Bath and Stephen Busch, 42, of DeWitt are the fifth and sixth defendants — out of 15 charged through the state Attorney General's Office — to enter pleas to criminal charges with connection to Flint.
All the pleas to date have been no contest pleas to misdemeanors with agreements to cooperate. No contest pleas are treated similarly to guilty pleas for sentencing purposes.
Todd Flood, the Flint prosecutor hired by the Attorney General's Office, said he was accepting the pleas because of "substantial assistance being given to move the ball down the field in the Flint water investigation."
Sentencing dates for Prysby and Busch are Jan. 23....
December 27, 2018
Governor-elect Gretchen Whitmer (click here) is pledging to make sure Flint residents have access to clean drinking water.
Whitmer’s transition team says she will work with Flint Mayor Karen Weaver.
It’s all to make sure Flint residents have access to clean and safe drinking water in the future.
Nestle has already agreed to provide free bottled water until April.
"In 2015 and '14 I was one of the people working hard, carrying all that water into the churches and to the pods so people can have clean water," said Terence Grundy, Flint resident.
He said getting bottled water has been a little tricky since all of the government-run water distribution sites closed.
Grundy said he was excited after hearing a media report that Whitmer had promised to resume state-funded bottled water distribution....
By Mallory Pearson
Flint - Bill Welch (click here) has been delivering mail since the age of 17 and is now retiring nearly 50 years later.
"It was just a job back then. I never thought it would last this long," Welch said.
He is saying goodbye after nearly 50 years with the U.S. Postal Service.
"They don't want me to go. They want to bribe me to stay," Welch said.
He has been delivering the mail on the same route to the same people for 26 years. He calls them just as much family to him as the people he works with every day.
"Just missing everybody here and everybody on the route," Welch said. "It will be hard."
He has been telling people on his routes that he'll see them some time, somewhere.
Welch's retirement won't be hard just for him to adjust....
