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Like Michael Jordan and Barack Obama, Rick Snyder stays in his comfort zone.
If the aspirational goal is achieved for Lake Erie by 2027, that means kids entering second grade next month will be entering college when it is achieved.
City’s mayor joins George Lucas on public policy’s dark side.
How about owning up to responsibility in a timely manner? How about an apology for EPA’s failure to safeguard Flint citizens?
Facts, the law and logic support a yes vote by the Great Lakes governors.
Request undermines impressive progress toward badly needed water stewardship win.
Urban contamination, a controversial pipeline and a Great Lakes diversion proposal are all on his plate.
Politics trump citizens of Flint as EPA administrator refuses to accept any responsibility for water mess.
That deluge of state pronouncements, announcements, advisories and denouncements about Flint water reflects a misperception that better PR is — if not a solution to the poisoning of a city, at least a priority deflection of too-slow-to-act criticisms and of the unfavorable and unwelcome international media attention the crisis continues to draw.