What’s Next for AAATA?
Last September, “I thought I could see the light at the end of the tunnel,” says Ann...
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Government
Safety-Net Ambulance
HVA saw its staffing fall more than 20 percent during the pandemic (“Paramedics...
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Imagining an Unarmed Emergency Response
Last April, city council voted unanimously to develop an unarmed safety response program. Mayor...
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Dingell’s Moving
When Michigan’s new nonpartisan redistricting commission redrew the state’s electoral...
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Trouble in Scio Township
Scio Township differs from Ann Arbor in many ways. It’s less populous, with just over 20,000...
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Amazon in Pittsfield
For decades, developers have eyed a sixty-acre site on Carpenter Rd. in Pittsfield–one of...
Read MoreGelman Plume Moves East?
Q. Why does the Gelman Plume move steadily eastward? I would expect a liquid to disperse in all directions.A. Ann Arbor water treatment plant manager Brian Steglitz explains: “Just like a river, groundwater has a gradient...
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American Rescue Plan
“We call it the Washtenaw County Rescue Plan,” laughs county board chair Sue Shink....
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Sustainable Energy Utility
When world leaders met in Glasgow in early November to grapple with the accelerating climate...
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Charter Changes
The more than 18,000 Ann Arborites who voted in November overwhelmingly approved four amendments...
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Farmland Funds
Nine Southeast Michigan land conservancies won the funds through the Lake Erie Conservation...
Read MoreVeridian, At Last?
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...
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Tunnel Visions
As Ann Arbor’s $9.4 million flood mitigation/nonmotorized trail tunnels near completion,...
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Landing Lurie
Raab is president of the board of the nonprofit Senior Citizens Housing of Ann Arbor, Inc., which...
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From Nobility to Ill Intent
“When I got the layoff notice from the Detroit Police Department, I was distraught,”...
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Break Through
How do you get pedestrians and floodwater from N. Main St. to the Huron River? In 2007, the...
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Karen’s Trail
Completing the Border-to-Border Trail was not on the radar of Karen McKeachie and her husband, Lew...
Read MoreLynch Law on Huron St.
This 1931 Ann Arbor lynch mob photo –“iconic,” if ever there was an “iconic” photo of an Ann Arbor historical event–has suddenly turned up for sale on eBay, posted on a “Buy it...
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