Well, our extremely right-wing Attorney General has just announced that six people are taking the fall, none of whom is the Governor (although there's not much love lost between the Gov, who is a dying breed of moderate technocratic Repub. and the AG, who is gearing up to run for Gov.)
Yes I live here. When they made the switch to Flint River water, the water immediately tasted disgusting, so we got a water cooler in our office and had an in-house filter fitted in our basement at great expense (but, silver lining, getting the loan for that helped us consolidate our debt to our advantage!) so with any luck neither of our kids will have been brain-damaged any more than they were originally. (And it's too late for us.) We always used a Brita Filter anyway, but very rarely replaced the filter.
This is a problem that it'll be easy to forget about because of the extreme poverty of the people affected. Initially I was upset that Dayne Walling lost his job as mayor, because he was actually pretty good and I don't think the shit was his fault, but Karen Weaver has certainly had a high profile and maybe that will work to our advantage. Pipe replacement has been pathetic, though.
One thing I will say is that Flint is just the canary in the coal mine. We were kind of lucky (!) that this all came out now, because we actually got a whole bunch of money and help because we were the first, but there probably isn't a city in the country (and certainly in the Rust Belt) that doesn't have similar problems looming.
