Feds reject Snyder’s bid to expand WIC for Flint kids

Despite the concerning levels at some homes, the EPA’s Mark Durno urged calm.

Keeping the city from ever having to take a trip down that particular road is something that Burlingame and his colleagues at the Water Department work hard to do.

Rick Snyder continues to bear the brunt of the…

“Elevated levels of lead can cause serious health problems, especially for pregnant women and young children”, Schaffer said.

Growing up in Flint, we knew to never get into the Flint River or eat fish from it. When the water levels were low, vehicles, shopping carts and other objects were visible.

To most Philadelphians, watching truckloads of water being packed up and sent from the City of Brotherly Love to Flint, Michigan so that the people there can have a lead free source of water to drink, bathe and cook with is heartbreaking.

This is the second round of funding enacted since the crisis was confirmed in the fall, bringing the total allocated to almost $39 million.

More state and federal assistance is likely to come in the future.

“We never imagined this in our wildest dreams but it just goes to show what people can do when we put our hands and our heads together”, said Alderman Leslie Hairston.

Protesters have been rallying outside Snyder’s residence, saying he didn’t act swiftly enough to help Flint residents.

Fr. Mark Hodges at LifeSite News offered an interesting roundup of how leftist websites offered only disgust that Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz would offer clean water to residents of Flint, Michigan.

“We are doing everything we can with one of the most-extensive water quality labs in the South”, Cedric Grant, executive director of the city’s water board, told CBS News.

Rep. Barbara Lawrence, who’s a member of Chaffetz’s panel, said she made a request for the governor to testify.

His spokesman, Dave Murray, told BuzzFeed News Friday that the bottled water consisted of a single water cooler on each floor of a government building.

He also says the water was provided until early summer, and then again in October after a public health emergency was declared.

A state legislative leader from Flint says the suggestion that the public also could drink from the water coolers is “insulting”.

In response to the water crisis in Flint, Mich., the National Pan-Hellenic Council, Inc.

Democrats on a U.S. House committee asked Snyder on Friday for documents related to Flint’s water crisis.

Lawrence said, “the American people deserve a full accounting of this man-made disaster”.

The city’s water is now undrinkable after it became contaminated when Flint switched from the Detroit water system to the Flint River as a cost-cutting move.

Meanwhile, US Congress has proposed $US400 million in federal aid which could help replace the city’s lead pipes.

“You can not reverse the irreversible brain damage that has been inflicted upon every single child in Flint”.