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Man in the City

Oct 19, 2021 | Community |

Standing “atop the old Walker Carriage Works,” home of the Ann Arbor Art Center, this...

Perusing the New York Times in February 2020, I saw a headline about a sexual assault scandal at the U-M. My first thought was that it was some manufactured grievance intended to throw shade on my beloved alma mater. But when I...

A Death on the West Side

Oct 19, 2021 | Community |

Peter Stipe was an Ann Arbor building inspector when he was recruited to join the police...

Watery Washtenaw

Oct 1, 2021 | Community, Environment, Government |

“When I drive around, all I see is what used to be here,” says Washtenaw County water resources commissioner Evan Pratt. What used to be here were swamps. The landscape was so wet that during the first wave of...

David Malcolm

Sep 21, 2021 | Community, Profiles |

David Malcolm noticed his neighborhood changing. He was standing at the bus stop on Brooks St.,...

The Fourth Wave

Sep 21, 2021 | Community |

Since reopening at the end of July, the Blind Pig had put on about thirty successful shows and was...

The Unexpected History of Cider in Washtenaw County

Sep 21, 2021 | Community |

For more than 300 years, making cider has been a fall tradition in southeast Michigan. The French...

Limited Access

Sep 20, 2021 | Community |

Hunter, fifty-six, suffers from spinal stenosis and serious nerve problems, so she pushes herself...

Jimmy Hoffa at the Law Quad

Sep 20, 2021 | Community, My Town |

I met Jimmy Hoffa in April 1960 when he spoke to students at the University of Michigan Law...

New Use

Sep 20, 2021 | Community |

Pastors Bart Bryant and Jim Mong started Redeemer Ann Arbor as a home church in 2015. Mong had...

Opportunity Index

Sep 20, 2021 | Community |

The early-education program works with families to ensure that every child arrives for the first...

Railroad Jack, the “Intellectual Hobo”

Sep 20, 2021 | Community |

The June 5, 1959, edition of the Ann Arbor News included some unsettling news. A group of Main St....

Peace Cranes

Sep 20, 2021 | Community |

Just in time for the International Day of Peace in September, the church hired a hydraulic lift...

Death Rates in Ann Arbor?

Sep 20, 2021 | Community |

Q. I have heard, more than once, that more people die in Ann Arbor than live in Ann Arbor, because the U-M hospital is here and people go there and die. Is that actually true? There are 123,000 people who live in Ann Arbor, and...