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SI on S. Ashley?

Dec 22, 2023 | Business, News, Sports |

Michael Watts found out about the proposed sixteen-story building outside his back window in late...

A Hungry Locavore

Dec 22, 2023 | Environment, Marketplace |

For every dollar American consumers spent on produce, dairy, and meat products in 2022, the...

Taylor’s PAC

Dec 22, 2023 | Government |

“Mayors all over America have PACs, and I have not had one,” says Christopher Taylor. Not until...

Do the Humanities Have a Future?

Dec 22, 2023 | Culture, Education, Featured |

A distraught woman stares into the middle distance against an ominous red background; from a jagged voice bubble comes her anguished cry: “… NOW WHAT?”

Hydrogen Buses?

Nov 27, 2023 | Environment |

Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority CEO Matt Carpenter says transit agencies can do two things...

Q. Were automobiles ever manufactured in Ann Arbor? If so, do any of those vehicles survive? A. Automobile manufacturers proliferated in the early years of the industry. In 1908 there were 253 U.S. manufacturers. The Huron River...

Book Glut

Nov 27, 2023 | Business, Community, Culture |

“You have so many books you can’t put them all out,” adds the owner of Motte & Bailey Booksellers. “I have some books on my sale table for two or three dollars that, a couple of years ago, might have been six or seven and on...

The Rise of Interventional Radiology

Nov 27, 2023 | Featured, Health |

As the child of two surgeons growing up in a loving family in Nagpur, India, Shantanu...

Auto Labs Flourish

Nov 27, 2023 | Business, Environment |

“It’s a facility that’s dedicated 100 percent to processing safety defects,” says Benjamin...

Hospital Headwinds

Nov 27, 2023 | Government, Health |

Over the past two decades, Michigan Medicine has grown increasingly dependent on a controversial...

Hemlocks in Peril

Nov 27, 2023 | Environment |

He’s speaking of the hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA), an invasive insect that has devastated hemlock...

United Ways Combine

Oct 25, 2023 | Community Services/Resources, News, Nonprofits |

United Way of Washtenaw County executive director Pam Smith was speaking to 250 supporters packed...

Twenty-Five and Out

Oct 25, 2023 | Government, News |

“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...