Jun 14, 2016 | News |
The University of Michigan: An Encyclopedic Survey was originally published in four hardback volumes between 1942 and 1958, followed by one-volume updates in 1977 and 1981. The new edition, scheduled for completion in time for...
Read MoreJun 10, 2016 | News |
One evening in May, Susan Fecteau was clomping back and forth on her kneepads on the sidewalk outside Literati bookstore, writing her latest missive to Rick Snyder. A passing couple paused to ask what response she’d been...
Read MoreJeanice Swift was the school board’s second choice. On July 28, 2013, the board learned that Brian Osborne, the New Jersey superintendent they’d wanted to hire, had turned them down. Three days later, they offered...
Read MoreMay 3, 2016 | News |
On May 3, the Washtenaw Intermediate School District will ask county voters to increase the special education tax from 3.9 to 5.4 mills. If approved, it will cost the owner of a home with a taxable value of $100,000 an...
Read MoreCity council directed staff to study culling the city’s resident deer herd in May 2014. It voted to create a “deer management program” in August 2015. But David Silkworth and Tanya Ridella-Mehlos didn’t...
Read MoreIn 2015, Jen and Charlie House moved from Milan to Dexter. Jen, thirty-eight, says Milan lacked a sense of community and a vibrant downtown. In Dexter, she “feels like I’m living in a Norman Rockwell painting,”...
Read MoreApr 11, 2016 | News |
Kary Moss, an Ann Arborite, is just back from a recent speaking engagement. And she was talking about Flint because the constitutional rights group played a decisive role in uncovering the city’s water crisis.In 2013, Moss...
Read MoreAn academic star in his Detroit charter high school, driven and confident, Darren Gordon felt “a little annoyed” to learn that his acceptance at the University of Michigan was contingent upon attending...
Read MoreMar 28, 2016 | News |
“City Council and I have invested a significant amount of time preparing for and commissioning an independent review of the Saline Police Department,” mayor Brian Marl announced in his January State of the City...
Read MoreMar 25, 2016 | News |
“It is critical that we address the vacuum of leadership at city hall,” Third Ward councilmember Zach Ackerman said late last year. “That has to be one of our priorities for the new year,” agreed his...
Read MoreMar 21, 2016 | News |
“It probably adds up to 1,000 people,” says Alexander Deatrick, tallying local volunteers for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. A former star of Huron High’s chess club, Deatrick, eighteen, is...
Read MoreMar 13, 2016 | News |
“Our enrollment for winter matches last year,” says Washtenaw Community College VP Evan Montague. “Our peer institutions are down. We feel really good about sustaining that enrollment.”Holding steady in...
Read MoreThe biggest public works project in the city’s history–a $94 million reconstruction and renovation of the wastewater treatment plant–is almost done, and it smells marvelous.That’s the first thing to...
Read MoreFeb 21, 2016 | News |
Charlie Munger, longtime right-hand man of Berkshire Hathaway boss Warren Buffett, expanded the U-M’s Central Campus with his new Munger Graduate Residence. In the long run, though, more locals may feel the impact of a...
Read MoreFeb 14, 2016 | News |
Environmental education has been part of the AAPS since 1961, when Bill Stapp organized nature field trips at Wines Elementary as a U-M dissertation project. Supported first by a gift from future AAPS environmental specialist...
Read MoreFeb 13, 2016 | News |
Local attorney Irv Mermelstein has long argued that the city’s Footing Drain Disconnection Program violates property rights–so far, with no success. In January, judge Tim Connors dismissed his lawsuit on behalf of...
Read MoreFeb 13, 2016 | News |
When Gov. Snyder signed a bill banning straight-ticket voting in January, he set off howls from Democrats.”It was completely partisan,” says county clerk Larry Kestenbaum. “It was pushed by the Republicans in...
Read MoreBrad O’Furey is Ann Arbor Democrats’ go-to campaign manager. In the past three years, he’s helped elect Christopher Taylor mayor, Sabra Briere to council, Carol Kuhnke to circuit court, and Adam Zemke to the...
Read MoreWith their matching light wood paneling and benches, the courtrooms on the second floor of the Washtenaw County Courthouse are almost identical. But Tim Connors’ court stands out. On the walls are Native American dream...
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