Taylor’s PAC
“Mayors all over America have PACs, and I have not had one,” says Christopher Taylor. Not until...
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Government
Hospital Headwinds
Over the past two decades, Michigan Medicine has grown increasingly dependent on a controversial...
Read MoreTwenty-Five and Out
“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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Elusive Electrics
In October, city council authorized the purchase of two electric refuse trucks. “It’s...
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The Newcomers
The Detroit Free Press called it an “historic power shift.” Empowered by a citizen-led...
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Health Care Crunch
To prevent gaps in coverage during Covid, the federal government ordered state health agencies to...
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After Affirmative Action
After Affirmative Action: At the end of June, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative...
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Tickling the Wire
Webster Bivens may have been a drug dealer, but his place in law enforcement history is not...
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A Parking Glut?
The pandemic’s aftereffects continue to reverberate downtown. When employees were sent home with...
Read MoreQuestion Corner | June 2023
Q. 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 MoreFewer Forfeitures
That 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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Imagining Southtown
At a white library desk in Venue, Margaret Poscher is building an empire. Peering into her laptop...
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The Next Life of the Staebler Farm
In 1973, the nascent Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation Commission had a handful of roadside...
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Homeless Families
Morghan Boydston, human services manager for the Washtenaw Office of Community and Economic...
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“Heaven on Earth”
“When the bill was about to pass, she actually called and told us,” says cofounder Scott Halpert....
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Where’s the Turnout?
At the Ann Arbor Democratic Party’s first meeting after the November 2020 election, program chair...
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Third Alarm
The end of January was huge for the AAFD: They arranged to take delivery of their first ambulance,...
Read MoreQuestion Corner | March 2023
Q. Has the Ann Arbor Municipal Airport banned leaded fuel in aircraft flying into/out of the airport? A. No. The airport manager, who asked not to be named, says that most of the planes using the airport have piston engines that...
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