Back to School
The “in-school hybrid learning option” AAPS announced in mid-‘January will offer two days of in-person instruction per week, along with two days of online instruction and one of “asynchronous”...
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More Pressure to Re-open Schools
Supporters of school reopening ramped up pressure on the AAPS in February, with psychologists joining physicians in calling for classes to resume by March 1, as recommended by Governor Whitmer. In January, the district announced...
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Crime and Punishment
That’s Cox’s explanation for a startling drop in crime during the last ten months of...
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Nightmare at the Psych ER
I lived through a nightmare at the U-M Psychiatric Emergency Room. The pandemic made it worse, but...
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Passionate Prosecutor
“A punishment-oriented approach does not work,” declares Eli Savit, who takes office...
Read MoreWashtenaw’s Election Audit
Hours before his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to stop Congress from certifying his defeat, President Trump claimed that he had actually won in a “landslide.” Even after the riot, seven senators...
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Turning Point
In the first two weeks of the month, the novel coronavirus killed twenty people in Washtenaw...
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Harbaugh Headache
After a string of crushing defeats, the U-M’s head football coach is staring down one of the...
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Therapist Barred
“We count on our licensees to interact with the public with honesty and integrity,”...
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Election Notes
“We had reports of lines at seven o’clock in the morning,” says Washtenaw...
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Faster Testing
In February, the leaders of NeuMoDx Molecular Systems realized that a global pandemic was...
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Home. School.
In March, my second grader and I cleared out his cubby at Dexter’s Beacon Elementary. I knew...
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Tunnel Visions
As Ann Arbor’s $9.4 million flood mitigation/nonmotorized trail tunnels near completion,...
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Q. Why were the fifteen or so parking places along the east wall of the downtown post office reassigned to government workers? Do they realize what a hassle this will be for the tax-paying public come Christmas?A. The downtown...
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Library Vote
“Our shared vision for the future of the library is to build on its many strengths,”...
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Find Your Ballot Box
In August, Ann Arbor software engineer Zack Hecht kept seeing articles about the disassembly of...
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The Indivisibles
In our binary political system, when your party is out of power, it can feel like you’re...
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Affordable Care
The coughs, troubled breathing, sweats, and fevers didn’t test as any kind of influenza that...
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Flipping the Aprill Farm
Extraordinary timing, great good luck, creative financing, and two fortuitous phone calls combined...
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According to the Washington Post, “six in 10 registered voters nationwide say they want to cast their ballots before Election Day.” Ed Golembiewski, Washtenaw County’s chief deputy clerk and director of...
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