Hooked on Screens
A 1950 survey found that parents most feared two things: the atomic bomb and polio. In 2018, NBC...
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The Underwhelming History of the Ann Arbor Research Park
When Jeff Hauptman, CEO of Oxford Companies, saw three parcels for sale near the entrance of the...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Ride-sharing apps Uber and Lyft have become wildly popular since they debuted in Ann Arbor almost...
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I don’t want to live in a bubble.
Speaking at Pioneer High at the March for Our Lives demonstration organized in the wake of the...
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The Forgotten Founder
In January 2017, my wife Andrea and I purchased an old Greek Revival home at 1418 Broadway. Years...
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Ground Zero
Saginaw Forest, the U-M’s eighty-acre nature preserve along Liberty just west of Wagner, is...
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The New Workouts
Steve Bemis, seventy, is a Webster Township farmer. “I live a physical life, and so I wanted...
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The Epidemic
Ashton Marr, an elfin woman with a slicked-back Mohawk, is a former opioid addict. “I was a...
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Recycling at the Crossroads
“It wasn’t easy or pleasant,” says Ward Two’s Kirk Westphal on...
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The Raw Strength and Courage Club
You may have seen them some freezing afternoon: dipping in and out of the frigid waters, their...
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The Battle of Geddes Ridge
“Raising the Flag” In September, a colorful banner appeared on the side of a trophy...
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Unmasking the Joker
In the spring of 1989, a drama fraught with irony began playing out in Austria. A Jewish American...
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Making a Megachurch
In August, 2|42 Community Church’s new building was a work in progress. One corner of the...
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Just Reward
In 1988 Jim Shayman, a thirty-four-year-old assistant professor in the U-M medical school, faced a...
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Tantre at Twenty-Five
When timber-frame carpenter Richard Andres launched his Chelsea farm in 1993, the word...
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Now Hiring!
For years, the most common window signs in western Washtenaw advertised vacant spaces desperately...
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State of the State
In 2013, the news that the State Theater might be turned into office space or apartments shocked...
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The Last Odd-Year Vote
Last year, city council asked voters to double its members’ terms and cut the number of...
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Stuck in Traffic
Inching along Main St. or crawling past Arborland, keep reminding yourself: this is what...
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