City of Kalamazoo

Renk: Sure other larger cities in Michigan such as Grand Rapids, Lansing and Detroit may...

What if the funding used to by the city for passing laws and ordinances, police and enforcing as well as cleanup costs was diverted to a program that pays the homeless to get back on their feet?

Renk: There appears to be quite a bit of information and answers needed before a shorter and longer term solution can be addressed.

Fountain of the Pioneers statue, Kalamazoo, Bronson Park, email, letter, listener

When you have a state championship held in any sport in Michigan, several parents come to support their kids on the playing field. For the last two years in Team Wrestling, it was held in Mt. Pleasant after a long stretch in Battle Creek that began in 1998.

Kalamazoo FC is preparing for their second season in the National Premier Soccer League and they are inviting their fans to celebrate Monday, May 8th.

Most cities and other municipalities are dealing with it: declining revenues. Much of it has to do with dwindling revenue sharing; money that trickles down from the state level which municipalities have come to count on over the years.
That, coupled with higher foreclosure rates in recent years, have…