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By Nick Hawkins

A Woman’s Mission to Bring Clean Water to Flint (click here)

For many years, (click here) WT Stevens supplemented his Detroit autoworker income with a small construction business. But there was nothing small about his impact on the people of Flint, Michigan.

When Stevens, a father of eight, died in February 2002, his daughter Rhonda Grayer realized that the "nice, non-confrontational guy" she had known had ­another side. "I was just amazed at his funeral, how many people's lives he'd ­impacted," she says. Many mourners told Grayer that her dad had trained them for free, given them a chance when nobody else would, and in some cases inspired them to start their own businesses. Those stories changed Grayer's life: To carry on her father's legacy, she registered his side business as a corporation, launching WT Stevens Construction in April 2002. By 2019, the company had made the Inc. 5000, at No. 79.

But that success took years of hardship--and a willingness to learn. For 10 years, Grayer kept working in corporate America while building up WT Stevens: "Sometimes you're the one who doesn't get paid," she says. "You pay your vendors and your employees and get what's left over."

So she asked for help. Grayer credits the ­National Small Business Association and the Michigan Department of Transportation's small-business certification program for providing valuable training--and the National Asso­ciation of Black Women in Construction for a network of peers.

Those connections and training prepared Grayer for the biggest opportunity--and challenge--of her career, when in 2016 WT Stevens landed a spot in a pilot program to replace the lead pipes in 50 of Flint's houses. The WT Stevens crew had the excavation experience. But they didn't know how to install new pipes....

So, this is it then with the poisoning of the people in Flint. There has been no word about further criminal or civil litigation regarding the poisoning of so many people in Flint, Michigan. The last time any of this was being litigated was June and July of this year.

Snyder's attorney general, Bill Schuette, skirted the prosecution long enough for everyone to get away with the crime and the deaths of Flint residents and the poisoning of so many.

That is nothing short of pure corruption of a legal system in Michigan that exonerates the wealthy and the powerful.

Due to a water switch in April 2014 (click here) to the City of Flint’s water supply, Flint residents rang the alarm almost immediately about a serious change in their water quality. Although the water supply was switched back to water sourced from Lake Huron in 2015, the damage had been done.

As a result of the 2014 switch, the Flint Water Crisis has become an ongoing public health crisis that has left a lasting effect on so many who call Flint home.

In early 2016, then Governor Rick Snyder declared a State of Emergency in Genesee County and an investigation was launched by the former Office of Special Counsel— appointed by then Attorney General Bill Schuette.

In late 2018, Attorney General Dana Nessel was elected and upon taking office in 2019, she made decisions to put a conflict wall in place that allowed her to lead the civil litigation into the Flint Water Crisis. The Office of Special Counsel was no longer needed, and Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud and Wayne County Prosecutor Kym L. Worthy were tapped to lead the criminal investigation.

See below for more information regarding both the civil litigation and criminal investigation into the Flint Water Crisis....

The former Attorney General of Michigan has a son, with the same name, running for the Representative of 95th District encompassing Midland County and parts of Gladwin County.

...He is the son of Bill Schuette (click here) -- former U.S. Representative from 1985-1991, state senator, Michigan attorney general and 2018 Republican gubernatorial candidate. Bill G. Schuette looks to carry on the family legacy of representing Midland County's interests....

To bring scrutiny to the senior Schuette in regard to Flint is probably in order. He brought charges against all those under Snyder, but, never Snyder himself. This is a miscarriage of justice. No one diverts water and allows contaminated water to be administered to the people of Flint causing deaths and maiming to the people of Flint without being held for the crimes they committed.

Perhaps, as soon as the misdeeds of Trump are settled the DOJ can review the issues that mounted after Snyder took away the election results of Flint only to poison the people.

There is this.

July 5, 2022

By Russ McNamara

Governor Rick Snyder's Men (click here) Originally Rejected Using Flint's Toxic River 

The Flint Water Crisis (click here) began with government mismanagement. As a result, tens of thousands of people and thousands of children in Genesee County were exposed to lead. The overall impact is not yet known. Lead does not leave the body and can lead to a loss of cognitive function and developmental delays.

Civil settlements have put a small price to the suffering of Flint residents, but justice and accountability have lagged far behind.

The Michigan Supreme Court ruled last week that the use of one-man grand juries violates the state constitution. The prosecution of former state health officials – and former Gov. Rick Snyder – headed by the Michigan Attorney General’s office will essentially have to start over....

So there is a ruling to begin the prosecution over again with a formal grand jury and not a one man circus.WHEN DOES THIS HAPPEN?

IS IT GOING TO HAPPEN OR SHOULD EVERYONE JUST EXPECT THIS TO BE SWEPT UNDER ANOTHER RUG IN THE CONTINUED CORRUPT SAGA OF RICK SNYDER?

June 13, 2022
By Mitch Smith

...After Mr. Schuette (click here) left office in January and was replaced by Dana Nessel, a Democrat, there were signs of a change in course. Todd Flood, the lead prosecutor appointed by Mr. Schuette, was dismissed. New prosecutors assigned by Ms. Nessel expressed concern about evidence collection and took steps to seize Mr. Snyder’s phone. Then, most drastically, Ms. Nessel’s team dropped all charges on Thursday and pledged to investigate more, saying “all evidence was not pursued” by their predecessors....

What is going on? How much more investigation needs to be conducted? When is a Grand Jury going to convene?

What is wrong with America?

It is the principle of the thing, ya know? If a person is going to steal firewood, then by damn it, she is going to pay the price.

This is called anarchy. That is what is wrong with America. The guns on the street carry out their own justice.

September 2, 2022

By Christopher De Los Santos

Police believe a Waco woman missing since April (click here) was held at knifepoint in a confrontation over stolen wood before a woman she stole the wood with shot and killed her in Gatesville, arrest affidavits reveal.

Gatesville police listed Elizabeth Ann Romero, 44, as missing April 8, and she is presumed dead. Three Gatesville residents have been arrested in the case, and more arrests are expected soon, Coryell County authorities said.

Affidavits the Coryell County Sheriff’s Office released Thursday say that the chain of events started with a March 31 theft of wood from a Gatesville construction site, in which two women who look like Jessica Colleen Robinson, 34, and Romero used a pickup truck that looks like the one Jessica Robinson drove. Romero later told the owner of the wood she and Jessica Robinson had stolen it, according to the affidavits, which cite several witness statements....

Whatever happened to valuing human life?

Oh, wait. How silly of me.

Valuing human life is restricted to fetuses.

Of course, of course, women can't decide for themselves and they break the law and deserve to die for taking wood.

Of course. 

No different than a woman Vice President in Argentina has to die (click here). Right? Women are so disposable these days.

Ya want to know what abortion law in Texas is? Jihadist would be proud. The abortion law in Texas is inspired by Islam. Has to be.

...In Islam, (click here) and most religions, abortion is forbidden. Islam is considerably liberal concerning abortion, which is dependent on (i) the threat of harm to mothers, (ii) the status of the pregnancy before or after ensoulment (on the 120th day of gestation), and (iii) the presence of foetal anomalies that are incompatible with life. Considerable variation in religious edicts exists, but most Islamic scholars agree that the termination of a pregnancy for foetal anomalies is allowed before ensoulment, after which abortion becomes totally forbidden, even in the presence of foetal abnormalities; the exception being a risk to the mother’s life or confirmed intrauterine death....

I apologize.

Islam is MORE REASONABLE and inclusive of medical science than Texas!

I want a national "Sell Your Guns to Police Month!"

We had "Cash for Clunkers," now we need "Cash for Trading in Danger."

Red Flag Laws aren't cutting it.

September 3, 2022
By Bernard Condon

Chicago is one of the nation’s gun violence hotspots (click here) and a seemingly ideal place to employ Illinois’ “red flag” law that allows police to step in and take firearms away from people who threaten to kill. But amid more than 8,500 shootings resulting in 1,800 deaths since 2020, the law was used there just four times.

It’s a pattern that’s played out in New Mexico, with nearly 600 gun homicides during that period and a mere eight uses of its red flag law. And in Massachusetts, with nearly 300 shooting homicides and just 12 uses of its law.

An Associated Press analysis found many U.S. states barely use the red flag laws touted as the most powerful tool to stop gun violence before it happens, a trend blamed on a lack of awareness of the laws and resistance by some authorities to enforce them even as shootings and gun deaths soar.

AP found such laws in 19 states and the District of Columbia were used to remove firearms from people 15,049 times since 2020, fewer than 10 per 100,000 adult residents. Experts called that woefully low and not nearly enough to make a dent in gun violence, considering the millions of firearms in circulation and countless potential warning signs law enforcement officers encounter from gun owners every day....

Police and prosecutors needs to meet to bring safety to communities. Police want their streets safer, use the Red Flag Laws. Selling firearms to police, does not allow anyone to go back out and purchase more. There has to be a stop placed in the data base after the sale.

Ah, come on. Trump had no respect for anything USA.

Respect protocol for national security? What is that? Is it in the PDB everyday? Give me a break. Those empty folders are the REMAINING evidence of highly classified documents either burned in the fireplace, dissolved in an acid bath or run through Trump's shredder. 

HE WASN'T GOING TO LEAVE EVIDENCE BEHIND HE SENT TO OTHERS. By others, I don't mean anyone trustworthy or within the USA government.

What model shredder did Trump have in his office? Yes, they are probably gone forever. I mean no one makes copies of highly classified documents before the President of the United States of America takes possession of them.

September 3, 2022

By Rebecca Beitsch

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...“The least optimistic scenario is that they are nowhere to be found because they are already with someone else.”

The inventory list was given to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon shortly before she heard arguments from Trump’s legal team asking to stall the FBI investigation so that a third-party special master could review the evidence to protect what they claim could be privileged material. The DOJ has argued such a move is unnecessary as its own team of staff not assigned to the case has already reviewed the evidence for privileged material.

Beyond the empty folders, the Friday inventory details in broad strokes the other types of documents that were found within Trump’s office among the tranche of more than 100 recovered classified records: three documents marked confidential, 17 documents marked secret and seven documents marked top-secret....