“It is really exciting to be able to talk with people who originally pulled these cards from packs, and hear about which convenience store they purchased them from and what the gum tasted like."
UCMC founder and executive director Allyson Cohen envisions a world where “everyone has access to exceptional musical performances and feels included and valued in classical spaces."
A new initiative spearheaded by U-M and the Detroit Regional Chamber aims to generate a renewed age of economic prosperity for southeast Michigan.
“The scariest things I’ve experienced in my forty-plus years” as a federally funded researcher, says U-M nursing school professor Janet Larson.
Throughout the debate over Ann Arbor Public Schools’ money troubles, there have been rumors about the prospect of shutting down schools. But this summer, board members began treating it as a foregone conclusion. The real questions seem to be: How many? And which ones?
Results from the 2025 Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress (M-STEP) show that 60 percent of Washtenaw County’s third-graders categorized as economically disadvantaged—including those who qualify for free or reduced-price meals, whose families receive food aid, and foster children, among other categories—scored in the lowest level for English Language Arts, compared with 26 percent of all students. Narrowing such disparities requires interventions with individual students that schools may not be equipped to handle on their own.
Have fraudsters ever tried to make their way into Ann Arbor’s Art Fair?
Taylor was soundly defeated by county commissioner Yousef Rabhi in the Democratic primary even as two council incumbents, Cynthia Harrison and Jenn Cornell, and two other Taylor-endorsed council candidates, Sandy Aldrich and Aidan Sova, cruised to victory. This being a city dominated by Democrats, the primary was tantamount to winning the office; thirty-eight-year-old Rabhi is, barring some wild turn of events, now the mayor-elect.
Pioneer Theatre Guild’s reimagined Hamlet embodies exactly the type of theater program Quinn Strassel wants for students: “Theater is better when everyone is invited to the table.” And in Ann Arbor Public Schools, high school students have an open invitation.
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When I walk up to the hot pink facade of Cluster Museum on Main, I often get a little jolt of excited anticipation—I never know what artist I might meet, what new creative work I might experience, what spark of conversation might ignite me.
Hear.Say Brewing + Theater is a lot of things: a craft brewery, a taproom, and a performance space for comedy of both the stand-up and improvisational varieties. Nestled into a cozy west-side commercial strip on W. Liberty, between Stadium and Maple, it’s also a welcoming neighborhood hub.
This is the U School approach: a philosophy of constructive conflict resolution, developed by U School leadership, blended with the Reggio Emilia approach, eco-justice, and play- and place-based education.
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High-rises and luxury student apartments are transforming Ann Arbor’s skyline, and the streets and neighborhoods below.
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Standardized test scores show that many Ann Arbor–area kids are struggling with reading proficiency. According to results released last year from the 2024–25 Michigan Student Test of Education Progress, only 56 percent of AAPS third-graders met or exceeded proficiency standards in English Language Arts. On a key national study known as the Nation’s Report Card, Michigan was ranked forty-fourth in the U.S. for fourth-grade reading in 2024—dropping eight places since 2019.
In its 2025 annual report, released in late April, the Washtenaw County Health Department announced a promising decline in deaths from opioid overdoses, firearms, and suicides in 2024. Firearm deaths continued to drop in 2025, and preliminary data show a similar trend for opioid overdoses and suicides. With all three issues nationally recognized as public health crises, why has Washtenaw County been so successful?
In an exceedingly rare political maneuver, resigned Ann Arbor school board treasurer Don Wilkerson filed in June to run in the November special election called to fill the seat he vacated.
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In late June, three Democratic state reps—Jason Morgan and Morgan Foreman of Ann Arbor and Jimmie Wilson of Ypsilanti—introduced legislation that would require university officials to follow local zoning requirements and ordinances. This followed U-M’s announcement in May that it would purchase the 140-acre Concordia University campus for $60 million. Because the university has legal autonomy on land purchases, the move did not require local input.
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After scathing reviews, Blue Suede’s Exhibit A2 has left the building.
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Activist campaign prompts Consumers Energy to abandon plans for a gas-fired plant in Lima Twp.
Read MoreThe city’s plan to spend $500,000 to give qualified residents about $4,000 to $7,500 to buy a new or used EV shows poor judgement at the very least.
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