News Archives - Page 21 of 63 - Ann Arbor Observer

Making Room for Everyone

Feb 18, 2022 | Featured, Government, Nonprofits |

Cliff Sheldon recalls that when he served on Ann Arbor’s city council from 1978 to 1982,...

The Day Zingerman’s Deli Almost Closed

Feb 18, 2022 | Business, Featured, Marketplace |

Sunday, March 15, 2020, marked Zingerman’s thirty-eighth anniversary, normally a time to...

From Bowling to Teslas

Feb 18, 2022 | Marketplace, Sports |

It’s official: Bel-Mark Lanes has decided to sell its property on Jackson Rd. to an Ohio...

Nursing Scholarship

Feb 17, 2022 | Community, Education |

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

Walden in Pittsfield

Feb 17, 2022 | Business, Environment, Real Estate |

According to Realtor.com, 4533 Carpenter Rd. was on the market for more than four years. From the...

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...

Getting Tested

Feb 1, 2022 | Health |

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

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...

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...

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...