There isn't much news about the trials of the Flint Nine.

There is a lot going on in Flint, including a government budget that hasn't passed for two votes of the city council.

There is ongoing discussions about lead pipes in the country. Flint has inspired such inventory.

May 25, 2021

By Steve Carmody

Harold Harrington (click here) is a master plumber. Fixing people's pipes is what he does. But it was something he found in his own home in Flint, Mich., that disturbed him.

"This came out of my house," Harrington says as he holds a small piece of pipe. "This piece of galvanized was in my basement. It fed my upstairs faucet and this is out of my upstairs bathroom. ... It's full of lead."

Harrington is among the tens of thousands of residents of Flint whose contaminated drinking water cast a spotlight on a threat faced by communities across the United States....

Genesee County is looking for teenagers for summer work. Flint is finally putting air conditioning in eight of it's schools.

There is another way for cities across the USA can help return citizens to their best selves. Expungement should also return voting rights.

June 2, 2021

By Winter Keefer

Flint - Nearly 1,000 Genesee County residents (click here) had the opportunity to wipe their criminal record at an expungement fair held on the lawn of the Genesee County Jail Wednesday.

The Wednesday, June 2, event was the first of many expungement fairs that will take place across the state, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said.

Nessel, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II were all in attendance, along with many other public officials....

The Non-partisan Biden Justice Department is doing the hard work.

Routing out the "Trump Culture" has to start somewhere.

June 11, 2021
By Kristine Phillips

Washington - The Justice Department (click here) will beef up its civil rights unit as part of an aggressive effort to fight policies and legislation that restrict voter access and discriminate against marginalized voters, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday.

"To meet the challenge of the current moment, we must re-dedicate the resources of the Department of Justice to a critical part of its original mission: enforcing federal law to protect the franchise for all eligible voters," Garland said, noting a recent wave of legislation in several states that restrict voter access.

Garland said within the next 30 days, the department will double the enforcement staff of the civil rights unit, a powerful division within the agency that investigates hate crimes, police abuses and other civil rights violations....

Journalism is our fourth estate, next to Government and People, Spiritual and Legal.(click here)  If the people of the USA sincerely want to be heard outside that of an election, quality journalism is vital to their future and that of their country.

June 11, 2021

By Josh Meyer and Kristine Phillips

Washington - The Justice Department’s independent watchdog (click here) on Friday announced that it was launching a broad investigation into whether the Trump administration and its two attorneys general improperly seized phone records of House Democratic lawmakers, their staff and journalists as part of an aggressive 2018 leak investigation.

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz confirmed that he would launch an investigation into it, as well as on the use of subpoenas to obtain journalists' phone records. Horowitz also said his watchdog agency would look beyond subpoenas to “other legal authorities [used] to obtain communication records … in connection with recent investigations of alleged unauthorized disclosures of information to the media by government officials.”

“The review will examine the Department’s compliance with applicable DOJ policies and procedures,” Horowitz said, “and whether any such uses, or the investigations, were based upon improper considerations. If circumstances warrant, the OIG will consider other issues that may arise during the review.”...

Do media services have to reach to the bottom for viewers and readers?

Tucker Carlson never won a Pulitzer. To that reality, FOX News defames the Pulitzer Organization. That is their focus, money, and hate. When is that journalism going to surface that actually proves FOX News is a parasite to democracy. Where is that Pulitzer?

Let me make this real clear. FOX News facilitated the January 6, 2021 insurrection. Why? Because they don't care. They get their MILLIONS AND BILLIONS from sensationalism and NOT journalism. They facilitated the hate that inspired criminality and assault against democracy.

The reason FOX News is sponsoring, "Let's hate Kamala" agenda is because they are scared she is right about anything and will be presidential material in the future. I mean if they can assault Harris like they did Clinton, Trump is a shoo-in. 

The other reason the Vice President is being harrassed is that FOX does not want to report the FACT, that Trump is under investigation for his role in the insurgency of 2021. Every news service should be reporting loud and clear that the former President who never was removed from office because of sympathetic Senate Republicans lead by Moscow Mitch, is under investigation for his role in the country's turmoil and insurrection on January 6, 2021.

EVERY MEDIA SERVICE SHOULD BE REPORTING ABOUT TRUMP'S ATTEMPT TO END OUR DEMOCRACY IN FAVOR OF HIS HEIRACHY.  That is real sensationalism, not the empty detention camps at the USA southern border.

June 19, 2012
By Andy Borowitz

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report (click here)—In an unprecedented honor for the Rupert Murdoch-led network, the Fox News Channel today won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

In its official statement, the prize committee praised Fox for exhibiting “an imagination and inventiveness that rival the best of Charles Dickens and J. R. R. Tolkien.”

In hailing Fox, the committee singled out the network’s fourteen-part story about President Obama’s birth in a mud-hut in Kenya.

For Mr. Murdoch, the stunning Pulitzer Prize win was a rare bright spot in what he acknowledged had been “a difficult year.”

“When I first heard about the Pulitzer committee’s decision, I didn’t believe it,” he said. “I had to listen to their voice mails to hear it for myself.”

The Kentucky Attorney General looked the other way when an innocent woman was gunned down.

June 11, 2021

The Courier Journal (click here) was named a finalist for a 2021 Pulitzer Prize in two categories for its reporting on the police slaying of Breonna Taylor and the more than 180 consecutive days of protest it provoked in Louisville.

The Courier Journal staff were a finalist in the breaking news and public service categories.

"Much of what we now know about the night Breonna Taylor was fatally shot by police is because of the Louisville Courier Journal’s dogged reporting, determination and demands for transparency," said Amalie Nash, senior vice president of local news for the USA TODAY Network. "The Courier Journal has been reporting on this case from the start, shedding light on a killing that subsequently gained national and international attention."

The winner in breaking news was the staff of the Minneapolis Star Tribune for its coverage of the George Floyd murder. The New York Times won the public service category, the Pulitzer’s top prize, for its coverage of the coronavirus pandemic....

Vice President Harris gave a great interview with Lester Holt. Evidently, it wasn't sensational enough for FOX News so they have to spice up the hate.

What else is there to say to other countries' leadership? The basis of Vice President Harris' visit was to bring a common understanding and common ground to USA foreign policy.

The very policy Vice President Harris is trying to RE-establish is the foreign policy that worked with the Northern Triad before Trump defunded it. He defunded the policies that addressed the problems the countries had and illegal immigration to the USA Southern Border went through the roof.

2019 saw the highest illegal immigration in history. Trump's approach was to treat the immigrants as criminals and housing them like animals. The Biden Administration is looking at the root causes of the illegal immigrants at the border. That is why Vice President Harris' approach in returning to sound policy will work to reduce immigration.

The one issue affecting the larger numbers at the border since the Biden Administration is the pandemic and the fact the USA had the highest number of vaccines to reduce the highest global incidence of infection and deaths. The largest population group at the USA southern border allowed into the country are unaccompanied AND abandoned children. The drug cartels and terrified parents are the reason. However, Vice President Harris has begun to address the child migrant crisis and the number of children held at the border has reduced.

May 5, 2021

The number of unaccompanied migrant children (click here) being kept in cramped government-detention facilities on the US southern border with Mexico has fallen sharply, after a 20-year high influx of border crossings led to overcrowding.

The massive influx of children left US immigration officials scrambling earlier this year for facilities to house the children.

The number of children being held in by US Customs and Border Protection (CPB) has dropped 88% between late March and late April, according to government officials.

The decrease comes as a task force set up by President Joe Biden begins to reunite families that were separated under his predecessor Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" policy.

Mr Biden has urged migrants not to attempt to travel to the US border - "Don't leave your town or city or community," he has said - but with Mr Trump out of office, some believe immigration to the US is now more possible....

There isn't much hate to find at the USA southern border anymore. What has resulted instead of hate is a pragmatic approach to end the crisis. When a country south of the USA is experiencing mass emigration there needs to be a solution to end the exodus. That is what Vice President Harris is doing in the Northern Triad and Mexico. Obviously, she is right in that the administration has sent their people to the southern border and the circumstances now have to be addressed within the countries in crisis. 

The children being accepted into the USA are here temporarily unless an American adopts them. The USA Supreme Court made it completely clear that people in crisis finding refuge in the USA are not here permanently. Some of the people that come to the USA due to a crisis in their homeland do stay after achieving a working status and use other means of immigration to qualify. They are not granted permanent citizen status simply because their homeland is in crisis and "Gee that is terrible." 

The immigration issue must be addressed in legislation in Congress. That is the story and not the fact the Vice President is in the Northern Triad rather than at the USA southern border. The crisis of the children at the USA southern border is solved and there are minimal number housed there. The humanitarian crisis is addressed and now the Vice President is addressing the underlying causes.  Questions? 

I guess Vice President Harris is NOT a "Photo Op" politician.

So, here is the process.

l. Solve the crisis at the southern border.

2. Advocate for immigration reform in the legislature.

3. Address the crisis within the countries where immigrants are coming from so the migration will end and lives are not in danger to "attempt to make it to the USA." The travel through those countries is dangerous and should not be attempted.

Got it? 

Not very sensational even for a photo op.

Where FOX News goes, so many other news agencies follow thinking that FOX is all that. Well, FOX News is only good for one thing and one thing only; fear-mongering facilitated by hate. I dare anyone to say otherwise.

The rest of the media that are like sheep over a cliff need to practice journalism and not sensationalism.