The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services today issued its bi-weekly summary report on lead testing in Flint. Preliminary data indicate that 43 of 2,182 adults and children tested had elevated blood lead levels since Oct. 1. “In partnership
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Flint, Michigan Lead in the Water
In an environmental disaster of tragic proportions, the City of Flint, Michigan has discovered that by switching water sources to save money, it inadvertently corroded the lead pipes of the city’s water system, leaching lead into the water supply. The…
HUD awards Choice Neighborhood Planning Grants in six cities
On Friday, January 16, 2015, HUD announced the Choice Neighborhood Planning Grant awards. HUD is awarding $3.2 million in Choice Neighborhood Planning Grants to the following recipients:
City of Flint/Flint Housing Commission (Flint MI)
City of Gary/Legacy Foundation/City of…
I’m Concerned About The Meaning.
By Tim Sitzmann
In Michigan last week, the billboard below popped up off of an interstate highway near Flint:
(image, and story, available here)
It certainly isn’t the first time that an advertisement has left out, or at least obscured, the sponsor or the…
Be Prepared To Pay Big In Sexual Harassment Cases
It has been reported that Flint, Michigan has agreed to shell out a whopping $600,000 to a teacher who claimed that her principal sexually harassed her after she ended a sexual relationship with him.
She alleged that the principal began…
VP Biden saying murders and rapes will increase without passage of job bill
Main October 19, 2011VP Biden saying murders and rapes will increase without passage of job billThis Fox News report, headlined “Biden Evokes Sexual, Violent Imagery Again in Push for $447 Jobs Bill,” indicates that Vice President Joe Biden…
News in Brief — Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010
WHITE PLAINS (N.Y.): “The U.S. Tennis Association is suing Olympus Corporation of the Americas for $11.65 million for breach of contract, saying the camera company wants to get out of their sponsorship agreement for 2011.”TORONTO (Ont.): “Shoppers Drug Mart…
Exciting New Initiative from Frank Alexander
Heidi Murphy in our PR department here at UGA law just directed my attention to a very interesting story in The National Law Journal. Emory Law Professor Frank Alexander has just launched a new center to help cities revitalize…
Shrinky Dinks
By propertyprof
There was a really short but gripping article in the New York Times about how to manage declining cities. From the intro:
Dozens of proposals have been floated over the years to slow [Flint, Michigan’s] endless decline. Now another
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The fall (literally?) of certain American city neighborhoods …
Cities rise and fall. Famous places such as ancient Jericho, Chang-an, and even Rome declined and nearly disappeared, and their abandoned buildings were torn down, as the cities’ economic or political reasons for being dissolved. There has been a…