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Marijuana Money

Jul 25, 2022 | Business, Community, Government, Marketplace, News |

Being the dope capital of the Midwest finally pays off—in tax dollars. Of the state’s $150 million...

Give My Books

Jun 24, 2022 | Business, Culture |

That was the revelation on which Whalen founded his company, Give My Books in 2008. He was...

A Rainy Day:

Jun 24, 2022 | Business, Community, Featured |

The day began inauspiciously. When I started the car; the radio came on and the unappealing voice...

The Furniture Makers

Jun 24, 2022 | Business, Featured, News |

How do you make a living with a degree in the arts? Blake Ratcliffe and Sherri Moore have built...

Restaurant on Hold

Jun 24, 2022 | Business, Dine, Marketplace |

Cesar Ochoa is ready to open his second restaurant on N. Main—if he can find enough employees. With a gleaming bar, colorful wall art, and a basement speakeasy with a secret entrance, Havana is otherwise set to offer...

Mallek’s Closes

Jun 24, 2022 | Business, Marketplace |

Mallek Service, the gas station/garage in the vee of Jackson and Dexter roads, closed on June 30....

Scammed!

Apr 25, 2022 | Business, Culture, Featured, News |

It was getting dark when I pulled into the lot of the Meijer store in Traverse City in late March....

Down on Main Street

Mar 28, 2022 | Business, Featured, News, Real Estate |

In a 1959 Ann Arbor News photo, the 100 block of S. Main St. is a kaleidoscope of storefronts and...

Drug Overdose?

Mar 28, 2022 | Business, Education, Featured, Health |

GlaxoSmithKline delivered the bad news in February: as of April 1, it was cutting Michigan...

The Day Zingerman’s Deli Almost Closed

Feb 18, 2022 | Business, Featured, Marketplace |

Sunday, March 15, 2020, marked Zingerman’s thirty-eighth anniversary, normally a time to...

Walden in Pittsfield

Feb 17, 2022 | Business, Environment, Real Estate |

According to Realtor.com, 4533 Carpenter Rd. was on the market for more than four years. From the...

The Bank that Grew

Dec 20, 2021 | Business, Featured, News |

Stan Dickson’s family owes a lot to the First National Bank in Howell. During the...

Amazon in Pittsfield

Dec 17, 2021 | Business, Government, Real Estate |

For decades, developers have eyed a sixty-acre site on Carpenter Rd. in Pittsfield–one of...

Drivers, Unite!

Dec 16, 2021 | Business |

Webster is a senior VP of Hagerty, the classic-car-insurer-turned-automotive-lifestyle brand that...

The Next Unicorn?

Nov 19, 2021 | Business, Featured, Health |

Workit Health is on a fast track to become only the third Ann Arbor-based “unicorn”...

Robot Farewell

Nov 19, 2021 | Business, Featured |

They were here: ten shiny, bicycle-wheeled robots. Then suddenly, they were gone. Refraction...

Veridian, At Last?

Jun 1, 2021 | Business, Environment, Government, Real Estate |

Grocoff is the lawyer-turned-environmental evangelist behind Veridian at County Farm Park, a 110-unit development that the city approved last year for the former county juvenile justice center on Platt Rd. Based on the Latin...