The James L. Crawford Elks Lodge has a commanding presence at the northeast end of Sunset Rd., high on a hill overlooking the Huron River. The substantial brick-and-stone building has been a pillar of Ann Arbor’s Black community for eight decades.
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August will see the first city council primary in at least twenty years with just one contested race. Six folks pulled petitions to collect signatures but only one turned them in: Mozhgan Savabieasfahani, who is running for a third time in the Fourth Ward.
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Coincidentally, Jeremy Jones called the next day wanting his guns back.
Read MoreQ. 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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Eric Parkhurst, owner of Winewood Organics, had rushed outside after a security camera showed a...
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EMS responded to 521 overdoses in 2023, up from 458 the year before. Yet deaths were down, from a...
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“Mayors all over America have PACs, and I have not had one,” says Christopher Taylor. Not until...
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Over the past two decades, Michigan Medicine has grown increasingly dependent on a controversial...
Read More“I’ve been at Ann Arbor PD since I was a twenty-two-year-old kid,” explains Metzer, who retired as the department’s interim chief in October. “This has just felt like a home to me.” But, she adds, “sometimes an opportunity...
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In October, city council authorized the purchase of two electric refuse trucks. “It’s...
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The Detroit Free Press called it an “historic power shift.” Empowered by a citizen-led...
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To prevent gaps in coverage during Covid, the federal government ordered state health agencies to...
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After Affirmative Action: At the end of June, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative...
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Webster Bivens may have been a drug dealer, but his place in law enforcement history is not...
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The pandemic’s aftereffects continue to reverberate downtown. When employees were sent home with...
Read MoreQ. I’m seeing signs around town that temporarily prohibit parking for street sweeping. How often does Ann Arbor sweep its streets? A. Street sweeping has many benefits: besides making the streets look better, it lowers pollutant...
Read MoreThat was in the 1990s, when the future Ann Arbor state senator was still a U-M undergrad. But civil assets forfeitures—police agencies seizing property they believe was involved in drug dealing and other crimes—were still...
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At a white library desk in Venue, Margaret Poscher is building an empire. Peering into her laptop...
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In 1973, the nascent Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation Commission had a handful of roadside...
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