The Pandemic Year
Michigan reported its first case of Covid-19 on March 10, 2020. News of the first infection in...
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Tipping Point
Jonathan Overpeck saw the climate catastrophe coming. “I started out as a climate...
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Lives of the Poets
One wintry January in 1986 four poets—Wendell Berry, Galway Kinnell, Seamus Heaney, and Donald...
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Staying Alive
On June 27th, 2020, I hopped on my bike to go to the store. I felt so free as I rode through the...
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The Signal of Liberty
Believing as we do that it is morally wrong to continue our fellow beings in involuntary...
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Nightmare at the Psych ER
I lived through a nightmare at the U-M Psychiatric Emergency Room. The pandemic made it worse, but...
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Passionate Prosecutor
“A punishment-oriented approach does not work,” declares Eli Savit, who takes office...
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Giving in the Time of Covid
“In my twenty-five years working in the nonprofit world, I’ve never experienced...
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Pandemic U
In June, the U-M released its plan for a “public health-informed fall semester.” It...
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Charles Baird: Visionary for Town and Gown
Charles Baird transformed the University of Michigan in two distinct ways, first through athletics...
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Home. School.
In March, my second grader and I cleared out his cubby at Dexter’s Beacon Elementary. I knew...
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Downtown in Winter
“It was like a bad horror movie,” recalls DDA communications manager Maura Thomson on...
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The Indivisibles
In our binary political system, when your party is out of power, it can feel like you’re...
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Flipping the Aprill Farm
Extraordinary timing, great good luck, creative financing, and two fortuitous phone calls combined...
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Decision 2020
A pandemic changes everything–including voting patterns. Absentee ballots made up...
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The Roundabout Drivers Hate
“I never once imagined in my wildest imagination when we built it that we were going to have...
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Votes for Women
“We can’t be the first state … why wait and be last?”–letter to the...
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Life After Prison
We thought we’d need only a third of the conference room at the county sheriff’s...
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Democratic Deadlock
The Back-to-Basics Caucus took control of city council in 2018. With campaigns that focused on...
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