Category: Features
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Village Life: Encountering a “child of God” in resurgent Civic Park
By Harold C. Ford Well I came upon a child of God… And I asked him, Tell me where are you going This he told me… We are stardust, we are golden “Woodstock” by Crosby, Stills & Nash Returning from an East Village Magazine assignment, I came upon a “child of God”…
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East Village Magazine – March 2018
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Flint’s most vulnerable deeply mistrust tap water, are unclear on filters and lead testing, survey reveals
By Jan Worth-Nelson Note: This story was amended on Feb. 21 to add additional response from Tiffany Brown, public information officer of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality –Ed. The city of Flint is far from assuring adequate coverage and information of the water crisis recovery needs of its most vulnerable citizens, many of whom…
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Legionnaire’s outbreak officially linked to Flint water crisis, nationally-touted research affirms
By Jan Worth-Nelson A fatal chain of events simultaneous with the Flint water crisis — an outbreak of Legionella’s disease which killed 12 and sickened scores of others during a 2014-15 outbreak—has now been scientifically correlated to low levels of residual chlorine during the crisis. The outbreak can be associated with the change in the…
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John Cherry makes 49th District State House run official; kicks off campaign
By Paul Rozycki Saying “We need leaders that show a genuine dedication to the public, whether or not it is easy or convenient for them,” John Cherry became the third Democrat to declare his candidacy to replace term-limited Phil Phelps in Michigan’s 49th state House district. On a snowy Saturday morning, he greeted a crowd of…
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42 percent vacant: Forum explores Flint’s “everyday remaking of place” after abandonments
By Jan Worth-Nelson Forty-two percent of Flint’s properties are vacant — 24,000 of them –and their presence, appearing to some like tombstones, to others like hopeful patches of gardens or clover, to others annoyances swamped by unmowed grass or decaying trash–has become one of the uneasy visual realities of a city in transition. A panel…
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Whitmer introduces herself to Flint, challenges Detroit Dems’ reported doubts
By Jan Worth-Nelson Declaring “Michigan deserves better” than a GOP-led regime she said has created a state which “hardly resembles the Michigan I think of when I talk about my Michigan pride,” Democratic candidate for governor Gretchen Whitmer introduced herself to about 25 Flint students, retirees, educators, activists and assorted Democrats Tuesday afternoon in the…
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Review: Sloan exhibit captures persistent intertwining threads of race and housing in Flint history
By Dylan Doherty “An Equal Opportunity Lie,” a new exhibit highlighting the intertwining influences of race and housing in the history of Flint, opened at the Sloan Museum on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jan. 15 and runs until May 28. The title is a quote from Floyd McCree, Flint’s first black mayor, who resigned…
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East Village Magazine – February 2018
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Former Flint Mayor Dayne Walling announces 49th District state house run
By Jan Worth-Nelson Stating that he has a “unique perspective” about state and local issues honed by what he learned from the Flint water crisis, former Flint Mayor Dayne Walling has announced he is running as a Democrat for state representative in the 49th District and expected to file paperwork with the Secretary of State…
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