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Hanna-Attisha: 80% of Flint kids exposed to lead in water have learning disorders
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha tells “60 Minutes” on CBS that early testing results show that 80% of children exposed to lead during the Flint water crisis will require services for a language, learning or intellectual disorder. The Flint doctor, who rang the alarm in 2015 about kids with high lead levels after the state-appointed emergency manager […]
‘We’ll scream loud’: Flint residents protest 5 years of water crisis
Updated 8:38 p.m. Thursday might have technically marked the five-year anniversary of the official start of Flint’s water crisis — but don’t call it that around Bishop Bernadel Jefferson. “This is a commemoration,” said Bishop Jefferson of the city’s Faith Deliverance Center. “Anniversaries are celebrations, and we aren’t celebrating [having] five years with this water.” […]
Ananich: Won’t endorse yet in Flint election, says Dems will work with GOP on roads
Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich is nearing a full decade of service in Michigan’s Legislature, and he doesn’t mince words while looking back: “I think we’re going to look back at the tenure of [Republican former] Gov. [Rick] Snyder as one of the worst things to happen to Michigan,” the Democrat said when asked about […]
Flint water adviser draws on personal health trauma in helping city cope
This is 1990. She’s a 19-year-old college freshman with a healthy lifestyle. Then, suddenly, she’s in a hospital bed. Liver and kidney failure are among her overall ailments, and doctors can’t figure out why. She fearfully wonders, “Am I going to die?” What could be the cause? Think of all those industrial smokestacks on her […]
Whitmer pledges to bring back bottled water for Flint
After the Gov. Rick Snyder administration made the call in April to stop giving out bottled water to Flint residents, his successor said she will bring the program back. The Republican’s administration cited almost two years of test results showing falling lead levels in city tap water. But many Flint leaders and residents remain alarmed […]