- Community
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Doomsday Planning
The Community Action Network faces the Trump cuts.
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Rose Valley Nursery
Fake Ad Update | March 2025
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Sugar Shanty
“Follow your nose, and you’ll find us,” Elsi Sly tells her visitors.
- News
It’s Bird Flu Season
Dead geese at Mary Beth Doyle Park
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Powering GenAI
The U-M outsources an energy hog.
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Research at Risk
“This is an existential crisis for research universities,” says U-M rheumatologist David Fox, “and for biomedical research in this country.”
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ICE in A2
Rumors of raids rattle local restaurants
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Business
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Eggflation
Bird flu and Michigan’s cage-free law send wholesale prices through the roof.
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New Hotels
“Most of the lobby construction is behind us,” says Robert Finvarb. “It is just now transitioning from a construction site to operating.”
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Paper Cut
Is the Ann Arbor News abandoning print?
Marketplace
LatestA Coffee Hobbyist Goes Pro
Curious Coffee joins Bløm Mead + Cider.
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Ten Thousand Villages Will Close on March 30
Rising rent and falling foot traffic made the fair-trade store unsustainable.
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New Owners at Wicked Mary’s
It’s now the Chick N’ Seafood Spot
Culture
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17 Blocks
After years of living the creative life in D.C., Chicago, and L.A., Davy Rothbart is back in town with a fellowship, a family, and a premiere of his latest film.
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La Raza: Arts and Media Collective, 1975–Today
The Chicano Movement comes to life at UMMA.
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Event Review: Stargazing
The Night Sky on a Winter’s Day: The U-M MNH Planetarium
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Is it Snowing?
Ann Arborites love to complain—anonymously—on A2 Fix It.
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