Flint Water Scandal

Largely abandoned by auto manufacturers who shifted factories to low-wage areas, Flint, Michigan, suffers from a powerlessness that allowed Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and other officials to ignore the city’s lead-poisoned water, as Dennis J Bernstein reports. By Dennis J Bernstein The lead-poisoned water of Flint, Michigan, is a national scandal that bears on multiple…

The case of Flint, Michigan, and its lead-poisoned water supply has exposed a U.S political disgrace, treating poor and minority communities with shocking disregard – and showing little interest in punishing the officials responsible, as Marsha Coleman-Adebayo told Dennis J Bernstein. By Dennis J Bernstein As a teacher in the mid-1970s, my middle-school students in Far…