Rival Papers in Chelsea
At the end of last year, Tom and Charla Hamilton left their advertising jobs at the Sun Times...
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News
Parting Advice
“Ann Arbor can be a challenging environment,” says AAPD chief Jim Baird. Baird...
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Hottest Major
In 2012, computer science didn’t even appear on U-M’s list of the top ten undergrad...
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Chief of Staff
Between 2001 and 2012, the city cut its workforce by nearly a third, from 1,005 full-time...
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Another Transit Try?
Two years after voters sank a proposed $3 billion four-county regional transit millage by one slim...
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Home Invasions
On January nineteen, officers from the AAPD and other local departments swarmed the Red Roof Inn...
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Recycling at the Crossroads
“It wasn’t easy or pleasant,” says Ward Two’s Kirk Westphal on...
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A Police Commission Is Coming
In November, a $200,000 outside study recommended that the city expand civilian oversight of the...
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Ready for Takeoff?
There have been repeated attempts to extend the airport’s runway over the last forty...
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Pot Politics
“We’re trying to get a movement going,” says Chantel Waske, receptionist and...
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The Battle of Geddes Ridge
“Raising the Flag” In September, a colorful banner appeared on the side of a trophy...
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Environmental Reprieve
Under questioning from Rep. Debbie Dingell in December, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt committed...
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Vaccine Push
“It’s definitely ‘all hands on deck,'” says Washtenaw County Public Health...
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The Biggest Cull
Sixteen city parks and six U-M properties will close daily from 3 p.m. to midnight January...
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Just Reward
In 1988 Jim Shayman, a thirty-four-year-old assistant professor in the U-M medical school, faced a...
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Millage Wins
Smith, who himself narrowly won reelection in the Fifth Ward (Up Front, p. 9), wasn’t the only observer stunned that the county’s mental health and police services millage was approved by a landslide in November....
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Close Call
“I was as nervous as I’ve ever been,” says Chip Smith of his Fifth Ward...
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