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Are you not worried about another Flint considering how the state handled that (and let it happen in the first place)?
by FLUX-YOU 8y ago
Are you not worried about another Flint considering how the state handled that (and let it happen in the first place)?
- karmicthreat 8y agoOur state government is not great. But the local GR government has been generally decent. Utilities work and are maintained. Grand Rapids also owns and maintains its own water plant and direct connection to lake Michigan. The local government has also been responsive to our local housing bubble. Though it remains to be seen if they will be effective. That said, our roads are still shit. Like the rest of Michigan.
- StudentStuff 8y agoPower and water seem significantly more expensive than out in the PNW, which can get spendy considering the city mandates green lawns and AC is needed for most of the summer.
- stevenwoo 8y agoPNW is kind of special with all the dams providing power and abundant fresh water compared to most of the rest of the USA, I can remember reading about aluminum plants and data centers moving there for the cheap electricity.
- FearOfReprisal 8y agoOh don't worry about that. Grand Rapids is almost entirely owned by the billionaire DeVos family. (yes the one that was appointed to the Department of Education to try and replace all public education with christian madrassas). They'll make sure everything is fine. That's what Trumpism is about anyways, a Horatio Algiers like dystopia where anything "good" must come as charity from the rich towards the unwashed masses.
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