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Obama's Flint Visit Rubs Some The Wrong Way

Some Flint residents have taken exception to President Barack Obama’s visit to Flint last week and the fact that he drank the water, claiming that it’s safe. Shawndrika Simmons represents AFSCME workers in Flint. Simmons says there is still water distribution by volunteers, even though she says the state has …

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Hearing Held On LGBT Bathroom Guidelines

Should Michigan students be allowed to use bathrooms or locker rooms based on their gender identity? That’s one of the questions being considered by the State Board of Education as it considers new guidelines to support LGBT students. Testifying at a public hearing was Dewitt Schools Counselor Theresa Severy.

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NASA Discovers Another 1,300 New Planets

It’s a big discovery from NASA. The Space Agency says that the Kepler Space Telescope has detected nearly 1,300 new planets. Astronomer Mike Narlock at Cranbrook Institute of Science says that brings to 3,200 the number of planets discovered, making it exponentially more probable that there is other life in …

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Testimony Continues In Flint Water Crisis

Michigan’s infrastructure was the focus of a joint committee of state lawmakers in Lansing that’s probing the Flint water crisis. Mike Nystrom, from the Michigan Infrastructure and Transportation Association, says people expect good public safety and transportation services–as well as public health services— Nystrom says the state is underinvesting in …

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Money Pours In To Help Flint

Financial help for Flint courtesy of ten foundations who are committing $125 million to help the city recover from the water crisis. The collaborative effort announced this morning includes the Charles Stewart Mott, W.K. Kellogg, Ford, Skillman, Kresge, Ruth Mott, Robert Wood Johnson, Hagerman, FlintNOW foundations and the Carnegie Corporation …

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New Alerts May Be Added To Warning Systems

You may soon be getting more alert messages on your cell phones. The state House approved legislation that creates an alert system used by police to warn residents of a threat such as a mass shooting or terrorist attack. The sponsor of the legislation, Brandt Iden of Oshtemo-near Kalamazoo, proposed …

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