EPA in the Crosshairs
When he ran for president, Donald Trump vowed to “get rid” of the Environmental...
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News
Storm-Water Solutions
City administrator Howard Lazarus’s fiscal 2018 budget calls for an 8.5 percent increase in storm-water fees–$585,000 a year, or $24 annually for the average household. It’s a down payment on implementing the...
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Not Quite a Sanctuary
President Trump’s attempts to keep out refugees and deport undocumented residents keep...
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A Dean Departs
“Can you believe this?” a professor in the School of Music, Theatre and Dance emailed...
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Schools Millage
“It’s a ten-year millage for 2.5 mills,” explains school board president...
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Before Ann Arbor
The University of Michigan is celebrating its bicentennial this year–just eighty years after...
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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...
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