The topic now turns to Flint, Michigan, a city only 60 miles away from where the debate is taking place. ➡️Read more from our latimes reporters on how Flint is still recovering, years after its water crisis:
A GM factory in Warren, Mich., is closing as Democrats come to Detroit to debate. Some workers, in a county and a state key to the 2020 presidential race, wonder whether elected officials can or will help.
“The churches would get together in the summer and have revivals,” she said. “The parks were filled with kids.”The journalist, who previously worked at the Flint Journal, Detroit News and NBC News, Violence worries Johnson even more now that she has a 16-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter. They live just outside Flint but can still hear gunshots and police helicopters.
Other candidates who haven’t been to Flint have spoken of it and proposed measures to protect vital infrastructure.
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