The Second Battle of Geddes Ridge
“I trust my friends to pay me back,” Paul Cronin testified. It was June 2017, and the...
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A Safer Pipeline
In the July 2017, Toni Kayumi, the Ann Arbor YMCA’s president and CEO, led a protest at the...
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A Pivotal Election
Whose Lot Is It, Anyway? Mary Hathaway stands on the sidewalk on Fifth Ave., staring at a parking...
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The Tipping Point 2018
Not long ago, deer grazed and soybeans grew on 154 acres of fields on either side of Nixon...
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Student Vote Challenge
“In the 2014 midterm election, just fourteen percent of the University of Michigan student...
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Who’s Counting?
Ninety-nine out of 100 colleges inflate their football attendance. That’s the takeaway from...
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Party Barn Battle
Ryan Nixon is a fourth-generation Webster Township farmer whose property will achieve Centennial...
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Judicial Challenge
So why is Bourque (pronounced “Burk”) even bothering to challenge incumbent 14A-1...
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LEO’s Big Win
In September, starting pay for the university’s nontenured teachers jumped from $34,500 to...
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Riding the Driverless Shuttle
What do you call the person who babysits a driverless vehicle? The driver? The passenger?...
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Learning Curve 2018
Last year the Wolverines entered the season with the least experienced team in major college...
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A record 28,608 Ann Arborites cast votes in the August 7 Democratic mayoral primary. Of those, 16,867 were for Christopher Taylor. That was more than all the votes cast in 2014’s four-way mayoral primary–the previous...
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Poor Sister
Third Sister Lake, in the U-M’s Saginaw Forest off Liberty Rd., looks idyllic. But...
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Transit Vote
When voters overwhelmingly approved a five-year millage expanding bus service to Ypsilanti and...
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Potholes and Potshots
Mayor Christopher Taylor and his Democratic primary challenger, Ward 4 councilmember Jack Eaton,...
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Summer of Discontent
Correction: a photo caption in the print edition misidentified the Ward 4 incumbent as Kirk...
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Who’ll Go to Lansing?
Goaded by the election of Donald Trump and enticed by open seats in both the state senate and...
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Saving the Cunningham Tract
Greater Chelsea breathed a collective sigh of relief in late 2014 when word got around that a deal...
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Loch Alpine in Limbo
Residents of Loch Alpine, the golf course subdivision off W. Huron River Dr., are spending their...
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“We Love Those Trees.”
“We love those trees,” exclaims Sue Shink of the Northfield Township Historical...
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