Flint, Michigan continues on it's quest for justice.

The deadline (click here) to do one thing or the other in the Flint water crisis settlement is Monday, March 29.

March 29, 2021

Flint - More than 30,000 registration forms (click here) have been received from people who want to participate in a $641.2 million Flint water lawsuit settlement.

Special Master Deborah Greenspan reported 33,341 registration forms were turned in by the start of the week. The deadline is next Monday.

Registration, which is required to receive money from the settlement, can be completed online by clicking here. Registration forms also were mailed to all Flint residents. Anyone with questions about the process can call 1-800-493-1754 or email FlintWater@ArcherSystems.com....

30,000 forms, some of which are lawyers.

Now, that the Michigan Attorney General is prosecuting the perpetrators of the poisoning of the people of Flint, Michigan there is the issue of the contractors. The lawyers should know any wrongdoing will be punished.

March 27, 2021
By Coleman Waterman

Flint - A court date (click here) has been set for a contracting firm cited by Michigan officials for allegedly dumping construction material in a Flint neighborhood rather than properly disposing it.

WT Stevens is to appear for a pretrial hearing before Genesee County District Judge David Guinn at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, March 29.

The former contractor received more than $27 million from the City of Flint to replace lead pipes. He was cited by both the Genesee County Drain Commission and the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) for failing to have a soil erosion plan at the dump site. WT Stevens was also cited for placing leftover construction material including soil, concrete and debris (commonly called “spoils”) in a north side Flint neighborhood instead of properly disposing of it....

I am away from home but will post about Flint when I return in the early AM.

3/27/2021

1:35 pm

Sorry for the tardiness. All I can say in my own defense is that it is springtime.

Let's take a look at Flint.

To begin, President Biden brought Flint up in the first news conference he shared with the American people. The reason he did was because of the large number of lead pipes still in homes all across the country. I want to qualify that because it is not the same as Flint.

President Biden is correct to be worried about the country and the lead service lines to homes and children across the USA. The best reason is that we cannot leave it to chance that lead won't come out of the pipes and into the water. Drinking water standards and water quality were never a high priority for the previous president (who's name I shall not mention).

By consequence of the highly destructive previous federal administrtion, there can easily be caustics in the nation's drinking water. The standards for the water are only a part of water quality. The contribution of overland flow and water runoff also plays a role in water quality. So, in environmental justice, if there is a coal plant throwing soot into the air, that shoot will fall to the ground and also causes acid rain. The leaching and overland flow are just as deadly as the lead pipes.

Whenever any sort of toxin enters drinking water and a water treatment plant ends that contaminant, there is a cost to pay for that water treatment. Now, in the case of the water Flint, Michigan used to receive in their pipes, it was glacial water and at the time relatively pure. But, if that glacial water is contaminated in the most minor amount with a caustic substance, then it needs to be treated. But, what often happens is the STANDARD for that toxin can be changed to allow higher amounts of the substance to pass into American diets.

What does that mean? It means the previous administration cut the cost of water treatment at the cost of American health and ultimately illness and longevity. It is this unthinkable reality that is upon us today. After the previous administration, which thought nothing of citizen deaths and even welcomed them, was finished reducing the cost of water treatment, there are dangerous substances in our country's water and it is most probably having an effect on the degree of lead in the homes of those with leaching lead pipes.

The country needs to take stock of the changes the previous administration made into reducing costs to water treatment while allowing higher contaminants in that water. The idea contaminants were increased by the previous standard will effect the entire country whether they have lead service pipes or not.

But, it is notable that President Biden called up the episode of Flint, Michigan in expressing concern for the entire country. The tragedy that resulted in Flint, Michigan under the direction of a ruthless governor not different from the previous president in valuing American lives, has made an impression on the people to the degree their lives can be changed by ruthless standards that feed greed. There is a deep appreciation of the tragedy that occurred in Flint, Michigan. All I can say is this appreciation for what can occur under wayward leadership is the credit of all the whistleblowers. Flint, Michigan has a proud history of standing up for itself when no one else was successful. That is being an American. We are grateful to them and am sincerely sorry for the loss that took a year to surface after the tragedy. 

FOX News so called reporting of Vice President Harris is all their politics of hate.

From the time the Vice President accepted the nomination she made it perfectly clear this is the Biden presidency. She is his Veep, not his co-star.

We are so very lucky to have her. I would expect gratitude and not hate. But, FOX’s mission is to destroy government and not look for its competency. That seek and destroy agenda was a tool and all over the Trump presidency.

To those that read this there is a fine line of verbiage FOX is using to hold on to their media power. The word is “precedent.” There is no precedent regarding civilian salutes except for those that seek the power of misguided words.

The only proper address our dedicated Vice President needs to carry out in her job is PROTOCOL. Given the insurrection that FOX helped foster, I would think they would be very cautious in their propaganda of hate.

FOX is playing the game of the tail wags the dog. It is old, unworthy, and all to familiar as a false and dangerous agenda of their desperation for control and be of any value at all.