{"id":4047,"date":"2023-11-03T07:32:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T11:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4047"},"modified":"2023-11-03T07:32:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T11:32:29","slug":"meanwhile-in-lansing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4047","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile in Lansing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/JPA418.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"408\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/JPA418.jpg\" alt=\"Meanwhile in Lansing\" class=\"wp-image-4048\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/JPA418.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/JPA418-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>State criminal prosecutions of the Flint Water Crisis ended this week with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganradio.org\/criminal-justice-legal-system\/2023-10-31\/ag-flint-water-prosecutions-ended-following-mi-supreme-court-decision\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a decision by the Michigan Supreme Court refusing the state\u2019s appeal of lower-court decisions<\/a>&nbsp;to dismiss charges against former Governor Rick Snyder. It marks the end of a chapter in a very sad book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wherever you happen to stand on holding accountable the public officials who put Flint under state-appointed emergency management, I think we can all agree that the optics (not to mention the results) were terrible. And we can add this as a lesson learned \u2014 next time rich, &#8220;successful&#8221; businessmen tell us that they are better than career politicians because (1) they get things done and (2) they take responsibility, maybe we don&#8217;t believe them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the record, I don&#8217;t think how our state government handled the Flint Water Crisis is the only reason why Michigan population is stagnated. But it certainly hasn&#8217;t helped. When you&#8217;re a place that gets several inches of snow on Halloween, you already have enough challenges to keep and attract people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State criminal prosecutions of the Flint Water Crisis ended this week with&nbsp;a decision by the Michigan Supreme Court refusing the state\u2019s appeal of lower-court decisions&nbsp;to dismiss charges against former Governor Rick Snyder. It marks the end of a chapter in a very sad book. Wherever you happen to stand on holding accountable the public officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4049,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047\/revisions\/4049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}