Building a Bike-Safe City
Christopher Becker was biking home from his job at the Ann Arbor District Library on August 24,...
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Government
Kerrytown Quarrel
Engelbert, who owns the Detroit Street Filling Station, says she got a letter from the Downtown...
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Contests and Consequences
Control of city council was effectively decided in August, when candidates supported by mayor...
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Everybody Loves Milton
An administrator hired on an eleven-month contract after two predecessors were forced out could be...
Read MoreAbortion Refugees
With the Supreme Court’s June reversal of Roe v. Wade, the decision that legalized abortion nationwide, existing state bans and restrictions went back into effect. Though Michigan, too, has an abortion ban on the books, courts...
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Three and Out
When Cox started here in September 2019, he was Ann Arbor’s fifth police chief in ten years. He...
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Eleven-Zip
Taylor and candidates he endorsed won all six nominations, defeating two opposition incumbents in...
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Clerks’ Quandary
In 2018, the voter initiative that ended partisan gerrymandering also allowed any Michigan...
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Dems Eye Lansing
Republicans have controlled Michigan’s State Senate since 1984. Local Democrats think that could...
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Transit’s Big Win
With the pandemic still simmering, it was a bold move by the Ann Arbor Area Transportation...
Read MoreQuestion Corner, August 2022
Q. Can you explain Michigan’s rules for ordering wine shipments? A. Michigan’s laws governing alcohol sales are labyrinthine. When the 21st Amendment ended Prohibition in 1933, the state set up a three-tier regulatory system: a...
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Marijuana Money
Being the dope capital of the Midwest finally pays off—in tax dollars. Of the state’s $150 million...
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The Lonely Death of Stadium Steve
A heavy rain was falling at 4 a.m. on March 30. Even with streetlights roughly every hundred feet...
Read MoreHeart Attack, Meet Covid
Yet compared to last winter’s Delta variant surge, Omicron’s spring visit was mild. In Delta’s worst week in January, twenty-one county residents died of Covid-19. In May and early June, the death toll never exceeded three a...
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AAATA’s Big Ask
TheRide has a 2.38 mill tax request on the August 2 ballot, up from the current 0.7 mills. If...
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Election 2022
In overwhelmingly Democratic Ann Arbor, where the mayor and all ten city councilmembers belong to...
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Unemployment Hell
Jennifer Larke’s descent into unemployment hell started in April 2020. Not just because she lost...
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Back to the Garden
Scott Richardson tries to get to Nelson Meade County Farm Park by 6:30 or 7 a.m. He leaves his...
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Question Corner: June 2022
Q: Craning our necks as we passed the corner of Huron and Fourth Ave. the other day, my spouse and...
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Prisoner of Putin
Trevor Reed, a former Marine and prisoner held in Russia, like their son, Paul, walked off a plane...
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