A Parking Glut?
The pandemic’s aftereffects continue to reverberate downtown. When employees were sent home with...
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Government
Question 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...
Read MoreQuestion Corner | February 2023
Q: The federal government recently provided funding to plug “orphan” oil and gas wells to prevent groundwater pollution. Are there any near Ann Arbor? A: A well is considered an “orphan” if it is inactive, unplugged, and...
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Ban the Ban
“What we’re working on, I swear you can’t make this up, is a ban on the ban on the ban,” says...
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Dashed Hopes
David’s twin brother, Paul, was arrested in Moscow in December 2018, on what his family and the...
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Destination Ann Arbor
For twenty-seven years, Kerr’s work was attracting meetings and tourists to Washtenaw County. An...
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Boards and Judges
After sorting through thirteen candidates, voters last month returned twenty-year vet Susan...
Read MoreQuestion Corner | December 2022
Q. What will the City of Ann Arbor do if the “Gelman Plume” contaminates Barton Pond? Is there an alternative source of water? A. This fiscal year the city will install two “sentinel wells” to watch for the plume approaching...
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Dingell’s View
Interviewed two weeks before the election, “the mob mentality” topped Debbie Dingell’s list of...
Read MoreDems Dominate
“It’s a beautiful day,” says Ann Arbor state senator Jeff Irwin two days after Michigan Democrats won the executive, legislative, and judicial state elections on November 8. “We have a whole new set of opportunities to make our...
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