For decades now Highland Park, a three-square mile enclave surrounded by Detroit, has been an oddity, a mystery, a sad but compelling story of a city in distress.
Detroit Free Press investigative columnist M.L.Elrick sums up the latest in the city’s ongoing drama:
It’s a good thing the Highland Park School District didn’t spend a million bucks last summer on a raggedy old building, because some of that dough surely came in handy when the district shelled out more than $1.8 million to keep its former chief executive from suing for sexual harassment…