The Flint families need to consider telling their stories to "StoryCorps." In remembrance of Michael Brown StoryCorps has displayed the story as seen through the community at the time of the killing. These efforts are very important because it is a forever record of the experiences of Americans.

August 9, 2019

There is something new greeting visitors (click here) to the Flint Institute of Arts. Beginning this week and running until September 4th, a shiny airstream trailer is outside the museum. It’s StoryCorps all set up in Flint and hoping to gather stories in its mobile booth for the next month.

Danielle Anderson, the associate director of the StoryCorps Mobile Tour (click here) says they chose to add Flint as a stop on their tour in part because the mobile booth had never been there before. It was also a natural fit for StoryCorps because of the strong relationships they have connected to the city, including an on-going project with the Flint Public Library and the support of Michigan Radio.

Participating in the mobile booth tour is a free public service, and anyone can sign up. Anderson says the one requirement is to register ahead of time. When participants arrive, they're guided by trained StoryCorps interview facilitators to help the conversation along. But the experience is very simple Anderson says, "it's forty minutes of recording time for you to sit down with somebody you care about or somebody you're curious to learn more about and you take some time to ask some questions and do some listening, thinkgs that we often don't have time to do in the midst of our busy lives."...

I could not believe my eyes when I read that Flint had a "Boil Emergency" for their water. And this boil emergency included filtered water. It began yesterday, August 8th at about 2:30 pm. As of 7 PM tonight on Friday, August 9th it has been lifted. These people never have peace of mind.

FLINT (WJRT) (8/8/2019) - All customers of the Flint city water system (click here) are under a boil filtered water advisory after a large water main break caused a drop in pressure.

A 24-inch water transmission main broke in the area of 12th Street and VanSlyke Road near the General Motors facility. Flint Department of Public Works Director Rob Bincsik said a contractor demolishing a bridge broke the water main.

Crews were working to isolate and shut off the leak, but a large area of the water system lost pressure. A loss of water pressure can cause bacteria to enter the system, so a precautionary boil advisory is issued.

Bincsik isn't sure how far the pressure loss extends from the break, so the entire city water system was included in the advisory as a precaution.

All customers on the Flint city water system are urged to boil filtered water for one minute before drinking it, using it for cooking, washing dishes brushing teeth or making ice....

August 9, 2019
By Ron Fonger

Editor’s note: This story was updated at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9 with information from a city press release stating the advisory has been lifted.

FLINT, MI -- The city has lifted (click here) the boil water advisory that was issued Thursday, Aug. 8

The city of Flint sent out a press release around 6:45 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9 informing residents that the advisory was lifted.

Flint’s Director of Public Works Rob Bincsik reported Friday that crews have completed repairs on a water main break, according to the release....