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Question Corner | March 2024

Q. The U-M is always growing, and when it purchases property in the city, it is removed from the city’s tax rolls. Does the U-M make any payments to the city for services such as police and fire protection, road maintenance,...

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Question Corner | Jan. 2024

Q. I have a question about the Gelman Plume cleanup. After contaminated groundwater is treated to reduce dioxane levels, it is discharged into a tributary of Honey Creek, which joins the Huron River upstream from Ann Arbor’s...

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Calls & Letters | Jan. 2024

To the editor: Your story in the December 2023 issue, Hospital Headwinds, was a missed opportunity to detail the tremendous impact of the University of Michigan Health specialty pharmacy program. Expanding our pharmacy will...

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Question Corner | Dec. 2023

Q. Were automobiles ever manufactured in Ann Arbor? If so, do any of those vehicles survive? A. Automobile manufacturers proliferated in the early years of the industry. In 1908 there were 253 U.S. manufacturers. The Huron River...

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Book Glut

“You have so many books you can’t put them all out,” adds the owner of Motte & Bailey Booksellers. “I have some books on my sale table for two or three dollars that, a couple of years ago, might have been six or seven and on...

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