Environment
A City Forced to Turn Out the Lights
Highland Park, Michigan, sees 1,400 streetlights repossessed as it struggles to pay utility bills
The lights are going out in Highland Park, Michigan. About 1,400 streetlights in the small city will be removed by the end of the month, leaving its streets in the dark.
Highland Park, a community of about 11,000 that’s almost completely surrounded by the city of Detroit, has been unable to come up with the money to keep its streetlights running. After years of unpaid bills totaling more than $4 million, the local utility, DTE Energy, decided to pluck the bulbs, The Detroit News reports