[gozur88]

Flint made news because the problem was new. Flint water used to be safe, and then it became unsafe.

There are a lot of problems nobody bothers with because they're not new problems.

[rileymat2]

Flint also made news because local control was subverted by the state to make the decision.

[drunkpotato]

Not the state as a generic entity, Republicans specifically, neocons with a very specific ideological privatization agenda practicing good old disaster capitalism by wrecking the state budget then claiming the need to privatize and cut budgets. It's important to point out what actually happened (is happening, will continue to happen), and not gloss over it by pretending it's a generic government problem.

[gozur88]

>Not the state as a generic entity, Republicans specifically, neocons with a very specific ideological privatization agenda practicing good old disaster capitalism...

That's biased enough to be wrong. Flint wasn't in receivership because of Republicans, and in fact the mayor, a Democrat, signed on to the plan to use water from the Flint river. A plan which, by the way, was conceived by the city's emergency manager, also a Democrat.