Horace isn’t alone in its unfathomable special assessments nightmare.

A neighborhood in Grafton, North Dakota, has been unscrupulously inflicted with special assessments due to the unnecessary repaving of a road, albeit one of the newest roads in town. The process of how this went down has been questionable from the start.

A city council member’s prompting of its fellow board members to seek input from the neighborhood residents themselves on the project proposition went ignored. The million-dollar project steamrolled through with no regard or consideration of the financial impact on the residents.

Many homeowners of this neighborhood — young families, small business owners, active community members — were hit with special assessments ranging from $36,000 to $48,000, at 3% interest for

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