Earlier this month I wrote about the decline of Benton Harbor Area Schools. The current trends point to the school district becoming insolvent in 3 years when the yearly deficits burn through the Covid bailouts. Shortly after this occurs the state of Michigan may step in and shut down the …
Benton Harbor schools currently owns 10+ buildings that are vacant and being allowed to fall into substantial disrepair. The majority of these buildings have been vacant for over a decade. Benton Harbor has not had a strong history of selling school buildings it no longer occupies. It has been a …
Benton Harbor Area Schools is likely headed for bankruptcy in 3 years, but no one is sounding the alarm. Maybe we have gotten so used to BHAS having financial difficulty. Maybe the Federal and State post COVID bailouts have made us too comfortable. Maybe no one is paying attention. It …
Someone I know recently made the decision to move from her home to an independent living retirement community, we will call her Barb for the purposes of this article. Barb’s husband passed many years ago and she has lived alone in a 3 bedroom 2 bath home on some acreage …