Changing the Station
WEMU’s music director Michael Jewett and news director David Fair will retire in June.
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A2Zero, Six Years In
“The system is the problem,” says Missy Stults, director of the Office of Sustainability and Innovations (OSI), which is why A2Zero focuses on institutionalizing change. Unwinding entrenched policies that have shaped development patterns and limited community choices for decades takes time—so why did A2Zero set a ten-year timeline? Stults insists that the plan’s ambitious pacing was necessary to maintain a sense of urgency about climate impacts.
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New Era Contenders
It’s been a bit of a whirlwind for the new-look U-M men’s basketball team this season.
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When Home Isn’t There
A recent report by the Washtenaw County Continuum of Care (CoC), a major player working to coordinate local efforts to end homelessness, paints an urgent picture: as of December 2025, at least 842 people in the county are experiencing homelessness—a 42 percent increase since 2024.
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Water From a Stone
Uncontracted for the first time since 1994, AAPS teachers are now “working to rule,” effectively only doing what is specifically articulated in the expired contract.
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What’s In a Name?
Visit U-M’s campus, and you’re bound to notice names on buildings and signs labeling this or that center or institute. U-M also has hundreds of named professorships. But what does it take to get that distinction?
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Rethinking Waste
Two U-M spinouts are taking the adage “waste not, want not” very seriously.
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Menopause Matters
Menopause and the menopause transition “remains one of the most overlooked and underserved areas in medicine,” according to the Menopause Society, a nonprofit focused on educating health care professionals.
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Arbor South Moves Ahead
He was referencing Arbor South, a $588 million plan to build more than 1,000 apartments and condos, as well as a hotel, services, and public spaces, on the parking lots around the 777 Building on Eisenhower Pkwy. (“The Litmus Test,” June 2024). Proposed by Ann Arbor’s Oxford Companies and Ohio developer Crawford Hoying, it was the first response to council’s rezoning of the area for high-density development, and councilmembers had been weighing whether to support it financially for almost a year.
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A Stain in the Glass?
In the windows of the Law School Reading Room, not all the numbers add up.
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Learning in Limbo
For the first time since 1994, Ann Arbor Public Schools (AAPS) teachers are working with expired contracts.
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Lisa Brush and Jim Frey
Brush and Frey fell in love nearly twenty years ago. They first met less than a mile from the Longshore building, while collaborating on Leslie Science & Nature Center’s shift to an independent nonprofit.
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Syverud Steps Up
Kent Syverud, chancellor and president of Syracuse University, was unanimously elected by the Board of Regents January 12 as the University of Michigan’s sixteenth president.
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Tree Town, a Truck Town?
“Most people explore the outdoors on four wheels,” says RealTruck’s chief growth officer Tony Ambroza.
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After the Fall
Sherrone Moore’s tenure ended in jail.
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Build Up
A dispirited Praveena Ramaswami sits behind her steering wheel offering, yet again, her arguments against the placement of the new Thurston Elementary School. It required the destruction of key ecological features of the beloved Thurston Nature Center (TNC); it’s being built on soft peat; it all happened without adequate notice to, input from, or consideration of the neighborhood.
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Weathering ICE
“You see vehicles that look suspicious with dark windows and [when] you look inside you see [people] in bullet-proof vests and you know, it’s them: its ICE,” says a community advocate who wishes to remain anonymous. “It’s happening in our lovely county. It’s here.”
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Something Blue
In October, the city began accepting applications from property owners for the Bluebelt program, a new effort designed to safeguard the sourcewater that feeds Ann Arbor’s drinking water system.
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Second Chances
After forty-three years, eleven months, and twenty-three days, Billy Cole was released from prison. It was 2019 and he found himself scrambling, trying to find his footing. He took on factory work, delivery work, anything he could find to bring in money and avoid returning to prison.
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