Transit in Transition
At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority’s ridership...
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Question Corner | July 2023
Q. Where is the nearest old-growth forest? A. The Old-Growth Forest Network maintains a list of the country’s oldest protected forests, and Witherell Woods in Detroit’s Palmer Park is the closest. Located forty miles from Ann...
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Treat Truck
The soft-serve frozen treat was developed by the Dole corporation in 1984, but until a couple of...
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The Rise and Fall of Westside Barbecue
On a fall afternoon in 2015, Petra Bartosiewicz was walking her daughter to the pool when her nose...
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Beet Jerky Bros
Best friends since they met at Clague Middle School in 2007, Theo Mourad and Aaron Brodkey grew up...
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The Wetlands
Our property does not quite aspire to having a waterfront, but it is fronted by wetlands. This...
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Pro Wrestling Takedown
The air in Building G at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds was chilly but abuzz with energy in...
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Riverfront Conservancy
The fourteen acres wedged between the river, the Broadway bridges, and the Amtrak railroad were...
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Kit Bennett
After a long weekend wrangling 5,000 high school scullers at the Midwest Scholastic Rowing...
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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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The Office Glut Comes Home
When Covid shut down Michigan’s economy in March 2020, 400 DTE employees fled from the high-rise...
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The Ypsi-Ann Drive-In Theatre
For three decades the tower supporting the screen of the Ypsi-Ann Drive-In Theatre loomed over...
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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...
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Good News/Bad News
It should have been the best of news for the Ann Arbor–based biotech company. On March 4, the New...
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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Jeanice Swift’s Decade
No one was expecting a global pandemic in November 2019, when voters passed a twenty-year, $1...
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