Going, Going, Gone!
“I just want to warn you: you may be surprised at what I tell you,” cautions the...
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Karen’s Trail
Completing the Border-to-Border Trail was not on the radar of Karen McKeachie and her husband, Lew...
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Jerry Clayton’s Vision
County sheriff Jerry Clayton is the most popular politician in Washtenaw County: he was the top...
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A Sobering Experience
I don’t remember much of my first week at the Washtenaw County Jail. The first four days I...
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Talking Literature
On a rare sunny winter morning, eight women gather around a long harvest table in Leigh...
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The Trouble with EHR
The doctor worked late last night at home, got to his Ann Arbor office two hours early this...
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Science and Nature on the North Side
When Eugene Leslie and his wife, Emily, left their northside home to the City of Ann Arbor for a...
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Tim Walberg’s Moment
Congressman Tim Walberg believes that what resonated with voters this past election was his...
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Did We End Homelessness?
Two years ago, the county’s social service agencies signed onto a national initiative called...
Read MoreLynch Law on Huron St.
This 1931 Ann Arbor lynch mob photo –“iconic,” if ever there was an “iconic” photo of an Ann Arbor historical event–has suddenly turned up for sale on eBay, posted on a “Buy it...
Read MoreSuper Pair
“We are a mystery to a lot of people,” admits Bryant-Pattengill parent Ariel Hurwitz-Greene. Her eight-year-old son Nathaniel has attended Bryant, off Stone School Rd. south of Packard, since kindergarten; next year...
Read MoreMiracle Drugs
At the June meeting of the University of Michigan regents, U-M Health System president Dave Spahlinger projected a $129 million surplus for the 2016 fiscal year. With annual revenues of more than $3 billion and roughly 16,000...
Read MoreWorking from Home (or Workantile)
Nearly a quarter of the workforce did some or all of their work from home in 2015, up from 19 percent in 2003, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Via interviews and emails, we asked four Ann Arborites to share...
Read MoreThe Strange Tale of Mr. Shiji
The elderly Asian man who walked into the Delonis Center homeless shelter in the spring of 2011 had no identification, but spoke English well. He gave his name as Yashukiko Shiji. At his intake interview, he said that he had a...
Read MoreWhat’s Next for UMS?
The 2016-2017 season is the end of an era for the University Musical Society. Its president, Ken Fischer, is retiring after thirty years, and the season’s schedule was curated with his departure in mind. There are the...
Read MoreSenior Business
Claudia Tracy, seventy-one, sits at a table in the middle of a spacious lobby with an oxygen tank and her dog, a Yorkie named Rusty, who jumps at her feet. Light is streaming through the windows. The walls are freshly painted in...
Read MoreArtisans in the Country
Alpacas in the MistSaline’s Two Branch RanchWeekend visitors to the Saline Farmers Market can’t miss Mark and Sue Schalk of Two Branch Ranch. As Mark operates a sock-knitting machine, Sue knits, crochets, and sells...
Read MoreTragedy on Fuller Rd.
Qi-Xuan “Justin” Tang was crossing Fuller Rd. by Huron High School in the predawn darkness October 25 when he was struck by a car and killed. The Community High junior was going to catch a shuttle bus to his school...
Read MoreCoach Yost’s Last Game
Memorial Stadium, Minneapolis. Saturday, November 20, 1926.—Looking over the playing field before kickoff for what would be his final game, U-M football coach Fielding H. “Hurry Up” Yost was concerned. Three...
Read MoreThe Stempel Kidnapping
I was one of more than a dozen FBI agents assigned to surveillance on Braeburn Cir. on Ann Arbor’s south side. After a few hours, another agent, Stan Lapekas, suggested we look in a Dumpster at the townhouse complex for...
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