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When I first heard E. Yvonne Lewis tell the story, it was a hot July day in downtown Flint, Michigan. We and about 70 others had gathered in the high-ceilinged ballroom of the Northbank Center, just west of the river, where the Michigan Civil Rights Commission was conducting its 2016 hearings on how this Great Lakes city learned that its own water was a threat. Lewis, a community health worker and mother of three, testified that she kept a Crock-Pot in her bathroom. To take a bath, she filled the cauldron with bottled water, waited for it to heat, poured it into her bathtub, then repeated thi...

As pandemic rages on, water shutoffs loom with few options for Michiganders Updated Jan 24, 2021; Posted Jan 24, 2021 File photo shows a running faucet. Some Grymes Hill residents have been issued a boil-water notice following a water main break. (Staten Island Advance/Shira Stoll) Facebook Share Brenda Scales spent the last year paying off her water bill. Scales, 69, lives in a southwest Detroit home. She doesn’t mind living alone; her sons visit weekly, but it’s hard making ends meet on her own. Scales relies on a fixed social security income of $792 a month--11% of which is spent on...

Former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder faces charges of willful neglect in the Flint water crisis. This article was originally published by ProPublica. It is republished here with permission. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. When I first heard E. Yvonne Lewis tell the story, it was a hot July day in downtown Flint, Michigan. We and about 70 others had gathered in the high-ceilinged ballroom of the Northbank Center, just west of the river, where the Michigan Civil Rights Commission ...

The Unfinished Business Of Flint’s Water Crisis Criminal charges and a class-action settlement may seem like the last chapter in Flint’s story, but many of the most important reforms at the root of the city’s water crisis remain undone. FLINT, MI - JANUARY 23: The City of Flint Water Plant is illuminated by moonlight on January 23, 2016 in Flint, Michigan. A federal state of emergency has been declared in Flint due to dangerous levels of contamina... FLINT, MI - JANUARY 23: The City of Flint Water Plant is illuminated by mo...

3:39 “Local, state and federal officials... we all failed the families of Flint,” Snyder told a congressional committee in 2016. He now could face criminal charges. Fmr. Gov. Rick Snyder (R-MI) (file photo) Credit steve carmody / Michigan Radio In Flint, criminal and civil cases stemming from the city’s lead tainted drinking water crisis are converging this week. New criminal charges may be coming while many in Flint still question whether they will ever get justice. Nearly seven years ago, government leaders here pushed the button that switched the city of Flint’s drinking water sour...