Democratic Deadlock
The Back-to-Basics Caucus took control of city council in 2018. With campaigns that focused on...
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Schools Reopening
“It’s been four months since we closed our schools for health and safety, and as we...
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Peak Medicine
“One of the indoor track-and-field stadiums was going to be a hospital,” Valerie...
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A Pivotal Race for Prosecuting Attorney
Even with five hotly contested Ann Arbor city council races, easily the August 4 Democratic...
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Dan Oates Speaks Out
“Reform advocates are starting to focus on police unions’ immense power to block the...
Read MoreCovid Costs
“We’ve spent well over six million at this point trying to address the Covid-19 crisis,” says county board of commissioners chair Jason Morgan. “We’re spending money on PPE, on testing and staffing...
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Virtual Funerals
“The pandemic ushered us into a whole new world of technology,” says Dutch Nie, CEO of...
Read MoreThe Helpers, Continued
Washtenaw Intermediate School District’s county-wide donation drive “Safe Schools Washtenaw” is collecting PPE and monetary contributions to help more than 46,000 students and faculty return to in-person...
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We’ve already started this whole divestment.
A whopping 46 percent of Washtenaw County’s $104 million annual budget is allotted to the sheriff’s department. Amid recent calls to defund the police, sheriff Jerry Clayton provides a closer examination of that...
Read MoreBudget Impact
Before the pandemic, Tom Crawford, the city’s chief financial officer and acting administrator, predicted a 3.6 percent increase in recurring general fund revenue and 3.8 percent increase in property taxes in the fiscal...
Read MoreFor the first time in its history, the Shelter Association has no one on its wait list
The Shelter Association of Washtenaw County never closed during the Covid-19 shutdown. Instead, it’s expanded its reach since the onset of the pandemic. This time of year, the Delonis Center’s waitlist is usually...
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Covid Campaigning
“I will not be going door-to-door until the stay-at-home order is lifted,” says Ward 3...
Read MoreCovid-19 SOS
In the past few weeks, Dawn Treader and West Side book shops talked to MLive about how the novel coronavirus is impacting their business, the WSG Gallery became one of several local organizations to close its doors and move...
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Postal Peril
Ann Arbor mail carrier John Odegard started wearing a mask in early April after he heard that a...
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The Journalists
John Bebow began his newspaper career as a carrier for the Lansing State Journal more than forty...
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The Essentials
The Covid-19 pandemic divided Ann Arbor between those with too little to do, and those with too...
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Unflushables
By the second week of the Covid-19 pandemic in Michigan, car manufacturing stopped, bars closed,...
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Chain of Command II
A West Point grad, Howard Lazarus believes strongly in respecting chains of command. According to...
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Chain of Command I
After city council voted seven-four to terminate the contract of city administrator Howard Lazarus...
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