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Nursing Scholarship

Feb 17, 2022 | Community, Education |

“Our belief is that nurses … are the backbone of a hospital, even if doctors are...

Safety-Net Ambulance

Feb 16, 2022 | Government, News, Nonprofits |

HVA saw its staffing fall more than 20 percent during the pandemic (“Paramedics...

Gelman Plume a Superfund Site?

Feb 16, 2022 | Environment, News |

Q. Why do local governments want the EPA to declare the Gelman dioxane plume a Superfund site? A. From the 1960s into the 1980s, Gelman Sciences discharged manufacturing wash water into ponds on its Wagner Rd. property. Bacteria...

Imagining an Unarmed Emergency Response

Jan 21, 2022 | Featured, Government, News, Nonprofits |

Last April, city council voted unanimously to develop an unarmed safety response program. Mayor...

Ousted

Jan 20, 2022 | Education, News |

In a letter posted online, the Board of Regents wrote that Schlissel had violated his contract by...

Grad Student Guinea Pigs

Jan 20, 2022 | Education, News |

That was the headline in a recent article in the New Yorker. “Charlie Munger, a Warren...

Covid Just Keeps Coming

Jan 20, 2022 | Health, News |

The virus celebrated the New Year with the highest local death toll of the pandemic: twenty-two...

Dingell’s Moving

Jan 20, 2022 | Government, News |

When Michigan’s new nonpartisan redistricting commission redrew the state’s electoral...

Michigan Radio?

Jan 20, 2022 | Community, Education, Nonprofits |

Q. Michigan Radio now broadcasts from five signals across the Lower Peninsula. Are there plans for additional growth? Is Michigan Radio still managed from Ann Arbor? A. There are no current plans for additional signals. Michigan...

The Greening of the University

Jan 20, 2022 | Education, Environment, Featured, News |

“I think that this is the most audacious plan out there,” says Steve Forrest, co-chair...

Getting Tested

Jan 20, 2022 | Health, Marketplace |

“No testing kits,” the sign at the Westgate Rite Aid read the January morning Bonnie...

The Bank that Grew

Dec 20, 2021 | Business, Featured, News |

Stan Dickson’s family owes a lot to the First National Bank in Howell. During the...

Trouble in Scio Township

Dec 20, 2021 | Featured, Government, News |

Scio Township differs from Ann Arbor in many ways. It’s less populous, with just over 20,000...

Amazon in Pittsfield

Dec 17, 2021 | Business, Government, Real Estate |

For decades, developers have eyed a sixty-acre site on Carpenter Rd. in Pittsfield–one of...

Hospital Overload

Dec 17, 2021 | Health, News |

“Covid-19 is overrunning our hospitals,” Michigan Medicine CEO Marschall Runge warned...

Post-draft Hockey

Dec 17, 2021 | Education, Sports |

The U-M’s winter sports have been shrouded by the giant shadow of the Wolverine’s Big...

Gelman Plume Moves East?

Dec 16, 2021 | Environment, Government |

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...