Stories tagged: "Flint"
A new Genesee County pilot program launched this week to help some people charged with criminal offenses avoid jail time by giving them a job.
General Motors plans to invest more than $1 billion in two Flint manufacturing plants for the production of the next-generation internal combustion engine heavy-duty trucks. GM reported a 38% year-over-year increase in heavy-duty pickup sales last year.
More than $15 million in grant funding authorized by the state legislature last year is now headed out to local communities to help them manage more than a dozen dams statewide.
Republican officials repeatedly dismissed Flint residents who said their water was making them sick, until it turned into a full-blown crisis. Now, with a state government under Democratic control, Michigan is finally making some amends—in a big way.
Several redevelopment projects are set to create or retain another 400-plus jobs and generate more than $200 million in investment, all right here in Michigan, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced this week.
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The 1990 election of Gov. John Engler ushered in a new era of deregulation, and, for the next several decades, governors and a largely GOP-controlled Legislature shredded environmental protections while defunding and gutting the state's regulatory agencies.
Bishop International Airport in Flint, Detroit Wayne County Airport and Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids will receive $62M in infrastructure funding.
