Village Life:  scratch a Flintoid these days, you’ll find a chemist
Sep01

Village Life: scratch a Flintoid these days, you’ll find a chemist

By Jan Worth-Nelson One Thursday in August, as Virginia Tech researcher Marc Edwards was presenting his most recent findings to the cameras and lights nearby, another less glamorous group of us — me a lone reporter in the third row — were sitting restlessly in a chemistry class at City Hall. It was actually a meeting of the Flint Water Recovery Group, an ongoing consortium of social service agencies and residents closely...

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City infrastructure replacement plan takes “holistic” approach, could cost $2 billion
Sep01

City infrastructure replacement plan takes “holistic” approach, could cost $2 billion

By Nic Custer Rebuild Flint the Right Way, an ambitious plan released in August to repair, replace and upgrade the city’s infrastructure, outlines Mayor Karen Weaver’s vision for fixing the city in the wake of the water crisis. Implementing the plan might cost as much as $2 billion, the document states. The plan asserts Flint residents should not have to pay for the proposed infrastructure improvements because of citizens’ lack of...

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