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Michigan still allows emergency takeovers of local governments. Is it finally time to reconsider this drastic measure?
Under emergency management, Flint faced problems that turned catastrophic while Detroit charted a new course. That mixed record and stark racial disparities have prompted calls for change.
By Anna Clark, ProPublica
Tags: Michigan News, News, Emergency management, Detroit, Flint, ProPublica, Michigan, Rick Snyder, Lansing
The Guardian runs excerpt from Anna Clark's Flint book 'The Poisoned City'
By Michael Jackman
Tags: The Scene, Anna Clark, summer reading, Flint water crisis, emergency management
U.S. Court: Detroit students have no right to access to literacy
Tags: News Hits, Detroit, Literacy, Michigan, Rick Snyder, emergency management, Detroit public schools, Detroit Public Schools Community District
Nestlé to send more than 1 million bottles of water to Flint this summer
Tags: News Hits, Nestle, Nestlé, Nestle Waters, Nestlé Waters, Nestlé Waters North America, Ice Mountain, Pure Life, Stanwood, bottled water, emergency management, Gov. Rick Snyder
Flint native Michael Moore sprays 'Flint Water' near Snyder's office
By Violet Ikonomova
Tags: News Hits, flint, governor snyder, flint water, michael moore, poison, lead, emergency management
Who's really responsible for the low academic scores in Detroit's schools
Tags: News Hits, emergency management, Detroit Public Schools, Detroit Public Schools Community District, media criticism
Michigan House candidate Michael Gilmore is suing Snyder over election
Tags: News Hits, emergency management, democracy deferred, John Conyers, denying black voters representation
Candidate says he'll sue Gov. Snyder to move up election for Conyers' seat
Tags: News Hits, emergency management, democracy deferred, John Conyers
Snyder's attorneys in federal court today: DPS kids have no right to literacy
Tags: News Hits, Gov. Rick Snyder, emergency management, Detroit Public Schools, literacy, Mark D. Rosenbaum
That land bank official kept on talking — and there's more
Tags: News Hits, emergency management, Flint water crisis, Genesee County Land Bank, Truth Against the Machine
Flint Mayor Karen Weaver poised to announce long-term water provider
Tags: News Hits, Flint water crisis, Flint Mayor Karen Weaver, Karegnondi Water Authority, emergency management
Economist: Snyder offers 'perfect' comparison to Trump
Tags: News Hits, emergency management, Gov. Rick Snyder, Snyder administration, Flint water crisis
In Flint criminal charges, is Schuette indicting ... himself?
By Lee DeVito
Tags: News Hits, Bill Schuette, Flint, emergency management, Flint water crisis
Emergency manager fight offers a very merry Christmas — to three special law firms
Tags: News Hits, Emergency management, Gov. Rick Snyder, Attorney General Rich Scuette
Charges against emergency managers underscore shortsightedness that created Flint water crisis
By Curt Guyette
Tags: News Hits, DARNELL EARLEY, GERALD AMBROSE, FLINT WATER, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
Remember: Bill Schuette is indicting emergency managers, not the EM Law
Tags: News Hits, PA 436, emergency management, Bill Schuette, Dernell Earley, Gerald Ambrose
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals rejects pensioners' challenge of EM law 2-1
Tags: News Hits, emergency management, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
TV miniseries on inequality zooms in on Flint
Tags: News Hits, Flint water crisis, emergency management, ACLU of Michigan, Curt Guyette
One year later, Flint’s water still unsafe to drink
Tags: News Hits, Flint, Gov. Rick Snyder, emergency management, EPA, safe drinking water
Detroiters: No vote on school board, but can vote on new district name!
Tags: News Hits, emergency management, emergency managers, detroit public schools
Michigan’s ‘Bikers, Buds, & Brews’ taps Marcy Playground and Soul Asylum
Detroit’s ‘NSFW’ art and music exhibit is not what you think
By Randiah Camille Green
Kash Doll, Rema, and PartyNextDoor among Afro Nation Detroit headliners