You seem to be confused. A deferral does not mean that you don’t have to serve, it means you don’t have to serve *immediately*. Robinette was going to serve those two years, but it is common for the military to wait until your athletic career is over for you to serve them, because the early years of your career are…

Hop in a golf cart and speed on out of there, leaving your date to walk back by themselves?

Former FOX 2 Detroit reporter Charlie LeDuff (don’t let the FOX confuse you he will nail anyone to the wall regardless of political affiliation) addressed the Flint Water Crisis in a number of reports on his You Tube page including an interview with Governor Snyder.

Where’s Elon Musk? Superhero of the private world! Government and big business have failed to help flint. Flint needs to shine a big Tesla symbol into the air and hope he shows up like batman.

Much easier said than done. Unless you’re a “world class attraction” like NYC or LA, it’s hard to get that diverse employer base. Much of the world, frankly, has only a couple of such cities in each nation, where the population ends up concentrating with the rest being largely rural. American states, as such, are…

Seems to me GM should be fined the exact amount to clean up the river.... I’ll sit here and keep holding my breath.

Great write up. I’ve wondered ever since watching Roger and Me back in the day why people stay. At what point does a place outlive its usefulness? Now the water pipes are poisoned on top of there being no jobs or tax base. At what point do we continue to keep a city like that afloat? At what point would it be cheaper…

When the jobs leave, so do the shits given.

Excellent piece. Thanks for continuing to shine a light on the issues in Flint, it long ago got lost in the all consuming 24 hour media cycle.

Flint is so unique in the ties it has to the auto industry and most people outside of Michigan don’t quite understand how intertwined GM and Flint were/are.