Flint

Virtually 100% of babies in Flint are receiving up to $7,500 in cash aid, no strings attached. Now, that program is trying to expand to more Michigan communities, including the rural eastern Upper Peninsula. But first, they have to raise millions in private funding.

The state of Michigan will pay $9.7 million into a special education fund to help children in Flint Community Schools and other schools in Genesee County.

Every pregnant resident can receive $1500 mid-pregnancy as a “cash prescription,” plus another $500 a month for the first year of the baby’s life. Other cities, like Kalamazoo, are now trying to expand the program.

More details on protests happening at the homes of University of Michigan regents. Then, rehabbing a folk art treasure, it’s a visit to Hamtramck Disneyland. And a check-in with the little girl who would not let the world look away from Flint during the water crisis.

The Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission ordered to make quick changes, the Arab American experience though Dearborn voices, a Flint inventor who gave us two-sided toast and the electric oven, and delivering doughnuts on the Great Lakes.

The latest on the United Auto Workers contract negotiations as the strike continues into week two. A Lansing-set novel explores the crossroads of technology, female empowerment and murder. A Flint community book club's selection and a rabbi's advice on caring for the elderly.

EGLE and EPA announced last week that they had reached an “informal resolution” of a civil rights complaint that Flint groups filed in 2021. The groups said they were initially involved in negotiations, but that “at the last minute,” EGLE and EPA agreed to the “watered-down” resolution.

Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam (LAN), an engineering firm, was sued for some responsibility for Flint’s lead-contaminated water. It agreed to settlement with Flint residents.

Former Governor Rick Snyder joins State House Republicans on the campaign trail, Michigan's falling population creates issues for school districts, and Kelsey Ronan's Flint inspired book Chevy in the Hole.

Former Flint public works director Howard Croft was among nine former government officials indicted by a one-judge grand jury as part of a state investigation.