Karen’s Trail
Completing the Border-to-Border Trail was not on the radar of Karen McKeachie and her husband, Lew...
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Police Today, Gone Tomorrow
That’s one of the issues on the agenda for AAPD chief Jim Baird. Police officers qualify for...
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Virtual Commentariat
You don’t have to watch city council to pay attention to city council. The first and third...
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Jerry Clayton’s Vision
County sheriff Jerry Clayton is the most popular politician in Washtenaw County: he was the top...
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To Sell or Not to Sell?
When the city built the underground Library Lane parking structure, it spent an extra $5 million...
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Bomb Scare
“A Channel 4 helicopter followed us,” a Hebrew Day School fifth-grader told his father...
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The Trouble with EHR
The doctor worked late last night at home, got to his Ann Arbor office two hours early this...
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Ban Insanity
“It was chaos,” says Ann Arbor immigration lawyer Vicky Farah. While the courts have...
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Irwin at Large
“Lobbyists will lie to a legislator about what something does, or what the impact of it is,...
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Tim Walberg’s Moment
Congressman Tim Walberg believes that what resonated with voters this past election was his...
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School Board Split
It’s easy to see why. Thomas had expected the December 14 school board meeting to be his...
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Parking Squeeze
That’s the total the Ann Arbor News estimated could be raised by rate increases and extended...
Read MoreLynch Law on Huron St.
This 1931 Ann Arbor lynch mob photo –“iconic,” if ever there was an “iconic” photo of an Ann Arbor historical event–has suddenly turned up for sale on eBay, posted on a “Buy it...
Read MoreMiracle Drugs
At the June meeting of the University of Michigan regents, U-M Health System president Dave Spahlinger projected a $129 million surplus for the 2016 fiscal year. With annual revenues of more than $3 billion and roughly 16,000...
Read MoreExit Interview
Sabra Briere meets a reporter at the downtown Sweetwaters. Two people at the next table stand to give her hugs when she comes in and hug her again when they leave, with accompanying “I love you”s. “People here...
Read MoreSoftware Blues
Human resource information system (HRIS) companies promise the sun, the moon, and the stars. But they sometimes deliver an asteroid–and Ann Arbor’s been hit twice. When the City of Ann Arbor switched to Ultimate...
Read MoreDill’s Moment
In February 2016, the county board of commissioners appointed county infrastructure boss Greg Dill as interim administrator. Last month, it gave him the job permanently.The appointment ended a messy, drawn-out search process...
Read MoreElection Aftermath
President Obama’s appearance at a get-out-the-vote rally the day before the election was a thrill for his many Ann Arbor supporters. It was also shocking: the Hillary Clinton campaign wouldn’t have sent its most...
Read MoreTurning the Research Ship Around
In her State of the University address in October 2009, then-U-M president Mary Sue Coleman proposed doubling the university’s annual research spending by 2017, to $2 billion. “It would require a tremendous...
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