Going Up
As downtown added thousands of jobs and residents, the number of hourly parkers rose 30 percent...
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News
The Last Odd-Year Vote
Last year, city council asked voters to double its members’ terms and cut the number of...
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Suppressing the Stench
“We smell it daily,” says Rebecca Schneider, who lives uphill from the Saline sewage...
Read MoreWired Lyndon
Lyndon Township voters passed a millage in August to fund their own fiber-optic network. Because it’s not economical for private cable companies to serve sparsely populated areas, 6,000 to 8,000 households in western...
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Congestion Prescription
Traffic congestion has Dexter tearing its collective hair out, so let’s start with something...
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Dreamers in Limbo
The first day of the new school year at the U-M was a nightmare for undocumented students: it was...
Read MoreCounty Millage
Isn’t mid-August kind of late to start a campaign for a November 7 millage?”Oh, hell, yes,” replies county commissioner Andy LaBarre. “We’ll do the best we can.”The commissioners voted in July...
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Seven to Four
“With me on council, there’s no more supermajority,” Anne Bannister says...
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Sprint for Flint
Since 2009 Braun, aka Mr. B, Ann Arbor’s internationally acclaimed blues and boogie-woogie...
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The End of Independents
“It’ll be better for incumbents,” Jane Lumm says, “and it’ll be more...
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Logjam at Mill Creek
On May 22, Nate Pound’s kayaks capsized. Not his kayak–his kayaks. The Jackson dentist...
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A New School in Dexter?
On August 8, the Dexter Community Schools will ask voters to approve a $71.7 million bond...
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Health Care “Coopetition” in Chelsea
“Health care’s local,” says Nancy Graebner, president and CEO of St. Joseph...
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Life Offline
When Nikki Sunstrum and her husband purchased their home in Dexter Township in January 2014, she...
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See, Click, Fix
Washtenaw County road maintenance issues may now be reported online using the same system the city...
Read MoreSupermajority?
In May, mayor Christopher Taylor and his allies mustered the eight votes needed to sell the air rights over the “library lot” underground parking structure. Yet they insist that they don’t have a supermajority...
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Turning Orange
Celeste Kanpurwala is hoping for a sea of orange T-shirts on the back lawn of Community High...
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High Water
The city’s $38 million storm-water management plan (Inside Ann Arbor, May) reflects the new...
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