Book Review: NOBODY: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
By Robert R. Thomas In the January 2016 issue of EVM, I wrote a book review of Demolition Means Progress (2015) by Andrew Highsmith, a definitive account of the reality of Flint’s last 80 years. The book arrived in my life at a time when I desperately needed to understand the Flint I had returned to in 2005. Eleven years later life in Flint has come to a new bend in the river where I needed to reflect and review. Where had we come...
Village Life: City Council meeting a mess of bedlam: is this how Flint reclaims self-rule?
By Jan Worth-Nelson This week I lost my city council virginity. It wasn’t pretty. Like most losses of virginity, it wasn’t particularly enjoyable and I’m not sure I want a repeat experience. Some things get better with practice – and are especially improved by having good partners. I don’t know if I can count on any of that in the city council chambers. In my 35 years in Flint, including 26 years at the UM – Flint, going to a city...
Trash dispute, trailer parks demolition, Pierce Park prospects featured at CCNA
By Kayla Chappell The September meeting of the College Cultural Neighborhood Association (CCNA) primarily focused on city issues, presented by Monica Galloway, Seventh Ward City Council member, and Kate Fields, Fourth Ward City Council member. Other topics raised at the meeting, attended by about 55 residents, included Legionnaires’ disease and the future of Pierce Park. Waste contract dispute discussed Galloway thanked...
Judge orders city council, mayor to confab on trash; Republic still on, Weaver speaks out
By Jan Worth-Nelson Mayor Karen Weaver and her top staff, along with City Council President Kerry Nelson and Councilman Scott Kincaid, will be reporting for trash negotiation boot camp this morning (Wednesday, Sept. 28), muscled into the courtroom of Circuit Court Judge Joseph Farah. And they have been ordered to stay at it, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. day after day, until they resolve the matter. In the meantime, the mayor and city Chief...
The hurts remain fresh: water protestors back at City Hall demand U.S. action
By Jan Worth-Nelson The “2 Years 2 Long Coalition” lined up in front of Flint City Hall on a sunny, September Monday with the American flag furling in the background. Their demand: That the U.S. Senate and House act now to bring relief to the Flint water crisis. In a handout distributed on the lawn, the group of about 30 activists wrote “After nearly three years, the residents of Flint say enough is enough....
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