{"id":2084,"date":"2015-05-29T11:35:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T17:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2015-05-29T11:41:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T17:41:59","slug":"highland-park-or-you-think-detroit-is-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2015\/05\/highland-park-or-you-think-detroit-is-bad.html","title":{"rendered":"Highland Park, or, you think Detroit is bad . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Funny, earlier today I speculated that devolving Detroit \u2014 that is, letting certain parts of Detroit self-govern and attract residents via a separate identity \u2014 could be a better solution to its depopulation woes than urban farms. \u00a0Then, while eating lunch, I checked the headlines: \u00a0\u201cSnyder hints he wants to avoid dissolving Highland Park<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gov. Rick Snyder signaled Friday he wants to avoid an unprecedented action of dissolving the city of Highland Park through bankruptcy to erase a $25.6 million water bill debt that has stalled negotiations over a Metro Detroit regional water authority.<\/p>\n

Snyder told reporters he didn\u2019t want to speculate on whether bankruptcy or dissolution is needed for relieve Highland Park of its debt to the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department for years of not collecting water bills from residents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now exactly what happens if the city, which is completely surrounded by Detroit, is dissolved, is not clear \u2013does the city get incorporated into Detroit, become unincorporated land governed in the same way as any rural unincorporated area (which county sheriffs, etc.), or something else? \u00a0But this is new to me \u2014 I had understood prior reporting on bankruptcies of cities, including Detroit\u2019s, as keeping the city as an incorporated entity, not disappearing entirely.<\/p>\n

(And the school system? Well, that no longer exists<\/a>, as a public school district, strictly speaking, either.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Funny, earlier today I speculated that devolving Detroit \u2014 that is, letting certain parts of Detroit self-govern and attract residents via a separate identity \u2014 could be a better solution to its depopulation woes than urban farms. \u00a0Then, while eating lunch, I checked the headlines: \u00a0\u201cSnyder hints he wants to avoid dissolving Highland Park.\u201d Gov. 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