News Archives - Page 22 of 66 - Ann Arbor Observer

The Lonely Death of Stadium Steve

Jul 25, 2022 | Community, Featured, Government, Health |

A heavy rain was falling at 4 a.m. on March 30. Even with streetlights roughly every hundred feet...

Missing Trustee

Jun 24, 2022 | Community, Education |

“On Friday, a bulletin board taken over by the Youth Activism class that [we] are a part of was...

Overdose Deaths Rise Again

Jun 24, 2022 | Community, Health |

As recently as twenty years ago, the county saw only a few heroin deaths a year—mostly older men...

Give My Books

Jun 24, 2022 | Business, Culture |

That was the revelation on which Whalen founded his company, Give My Books in 2008. He was...

Class Gifts

Jun 24, 2022 | Community, Education |

It’s a tradition that goes back to the school’s first graduating class, in 2000: the five seniors...

Farmers Dream Big

Jun 24, 2022 | Marketplace, News, Nonprofits |

Steady streams of cars turn into the parking lot of the Washtenaw Food Hub, their drivers arriving...

Heart Attack, Meet Covid

Jun 24, 2022 | Government, Health, News |

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...

AAATA’s Big Ask

Jun 24, 2022 | Community, Government, News |

TheRide has a 2.38 mill tax request on the August 2 ballot, up from the current 0.7 mills. If...

A Rainy Day:

Jun 24, 2022 | Business, Community, Featured |

The day began inauspiciously. When I started the car; the radio came on and the unappealing voice...

The Furniture Makers

Jun 24, 2022 | Business, Featured, News |

How do you make a living with a degree in the arts? Blake Ratcliffe and Sherri Moore have built...

The Art Fair Journey

Jun 24, 2022 | Community, Culture, Featured, News |

“Their lives are characterized by travel, hard work and a richness of experience uncommon to the...

Election 2022

Jun 24, 2022 | Featured, Government, News |

In overwhelmingly Democratic Ann Arbor, where the mayor and all ten city councilmembers belong to...

Restaurant on Hold

Jun 24, 2022 | Business, Dine, Marketplace |

Cesar Ochoa is ready to open his second restaurant on N. Main—if he can find enough employees. With a gleaming bar, colorful wall art, and a basement speakeasy with a secret entrance, Havana is otherwise set to offer...