MTA plan envisions expanded routes, accessibility, cleaner rides
By Nic Custer The Flint Mass Transportation Authority is working to increase routes, make bus stops more accessible, integrate scheduling apps and electronic payment and replace 160 of its 280 vehicles over the next decade. These are essential priorities offered in MTA’s recently released 2016-2026 Strategic Plan. The new plan was informed by community feedback from rider surveys and advisory councils made up of riders and...
Analysis: Packed Water Town Hall evokes spirit of ’76, ’36 as data pours in
by Harold C. Ford “…When you have a great violation of the people and there’s a great sense of injury…you have to give people an honorable means and context in which to express and eliminate that grief and speak decisively and succinctly back to the issue. Otherwise your movement will break down into chaos and violence.” James Bevel; Episode 6, “Bridge to Freedom (1965),” Eyes on the Prize, 1987. A simple two-sentence summary...
ReCAST federal grant aims to address water crisis trauma, build resilience
By Megan Ockert How can the city of Flint move from the community-wide trauma of the water crisis toward strengthened resilience? Coordinators of a grant from the federal government are proceeding to answer that question, and to do so, they have a million dollars a year to work with over the next five years. Last September the city, in partnership with the University of Michigan – Flint, was awarded $4.9 million from the federal...
Dayne Walling and the Flint water crisis: victim, villain or faithful servant?
Some 32 months after former Flint Mayor Dayne Walling raised a celebratory glass and pressed a small black button to switch the source of water flowing to Flint citizens from Detroit to the Flint River, he agreed to share his version of Flint’s most devastating man-made disaster with East Village Magazine. Since his defeat by Karen Weaver, Walling, now 42, has been living quietly in his 1927 colonial home in the College Cultural...
Local presidential elector with deep Flint roots says Trump will help blacks
By Jan Worth-Nelson The first Republican Henry Hatter knew was his uncle from Davison — a “prosperous-looking” man with a gold tooth and a pocket full of quarters for the kids. “He was generous and he was easy to love,” Hatter, now a youthful 80, recalls with a smile. When his uncle came around to the family home in Flint, Hatter remembers, his mother would say, “There’s a...
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