Category: Watchdog
Cash crunch prompts change to downtown Kalamazoo operations
A worst-case scenario played out over years, ultimately dooming the three decade-long way downtown Kalamazoo has been funded and managed. But it has also opened the door to new ways of doing things.
What do the unhoused do in a system that doesn’t work well?
When Kalamazoo city officials broke up encampments, they told people to seek help at the Gospel Mission and Ministry With Community. From there, the search for assistance continues in a poorly organized system.
School kids to face higher COVID-19 risk, despite vaccine access
Many school districts are removing the protection that masks have provided as hospitals raise red flags and local and state leaders decline to intervene.
Who keeps school children safe as they cross the street?
That’s a question parents and the crossing guard at King-Westwood Elementary have been asking of a bureaucracy slow to answer.

Cash crunch prompts change to downtown Kalamazoo operations
A worst-case scenario played out over years, ultimately dooming the three decade-long way downtown Kalamazoo has been funded and managed. But it has also opened the door to new ways of doing things.

What do the unhoused do in a system that doesn’t work well?
When Kalamazoo city officials broke up encampments, they told people to seek help at the Gospel Mission and Ministry With Community. From there, the search for assistance continues in a poorly organized system.

School kids to face higher COVID-19 risk, despite vaccine access
Many school districts are removing the protection that masks have provided as hospitals raise red flags and local and state leaders decline to intervene.

Who keeps school children safe as they cross the street?
That’s a question parents and the crossing guard at King-Westwood Elementary have been asking of a bureaucracy slow to answer.