Lyme Disease Outbreak
“The number of cases has exploded,” says Beth Ann Hamilton, communications coordinator for the Washtenaw County Health Department.
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Main St. Mystery
The nine-story building was developed by DTE’s real estate division, and floors two through seven once bustled with nearly 400 company employees. But in March of 2021, with many of them working from home, DTE vacated the building and listed 105,727 square feet of office space for sale. California-based REalta Capital purchased it in late 2022 for an estimated $21 million.
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Emerson Turns Fifty
Emerson celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in April at Michigan Stadium. “We raised a significant amount of money,” Beckerleg emails, “with the bulk of it going to support our financial aid program—including a new middle-school scholarship in honor of Jean Navarre.
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No Parties?
August will see the first city council primary in at least twenty years with just one contested race. Six folks pulled petitions to collect signatures but only one turned them in: Mozhgan Savabieasfahani, who is running for a third time in the Fourth Ward.
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Funding Fight
The assembly controls a budget of about $1.2 million that traditionally supports dozens of student organizations. Chowdhury and Atkinson, who spent nights at the encampment on the Diag in April and May, want to give it to Palestinian groups instead.
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Nature’s Calendar
Is global warming making our springs earlier and longer, or is this year a fluke? Area scientists and nature lovers say it’s too soon to tell.
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Bob Lutz
For decades, Bob Lutz was one of the most influential executives in the auto industry, shaping models that ranged from the first BMW 3 series and Dodge Viper to the Ford Explorer and Chevy Volt. And now, after a succession of high-level jobs and dozens of distinctive vehicles, he’s once again making paper models.
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Seniors Betrayed
With great wealth come great opportunities for financial exploitation. According to a 2023 report from the Justice Department’s Office of Victims of Crime, senior-service agencies that the office funds report that 14 percent of the people seeking their help are victims of financial crimes.
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Turkeys in Traffic
Ask most Michiganders about the hazards of driving in a state full of wildlife and you’re likely to hear about run-ins with deer. But on a recent Saturday afternoon, a different kind of traffic hazard asserted itself.
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Over the Cliff
At a special meeting in early April, the school board voted 4–3 to have superintendent Jazz Parks warn most of the district’s unions of impending layoffs. They did so, president Torchio Feaster says, because they needed “to send a realistic plan to the state” for how to address a $25 million shortfall.
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Greenbelt and Bluebelt
In March, Michigan’s Agricultural Preservation Fund Board awarded $2 million to eight farmland preservation programs across the state to purchase development rights that protect land for agricultural use. Five of the eight are in Washtenaw County.
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Red Flag Law
Coincidentally, Jeremy Jones called the next day wanting his guns back.
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Heat from the Ground
When it’s completed next year, the $10 million, 11,000-square-foot Edward and Rosalie Ginsberg...
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Magazine Seedlings
On Facebook’s Buy No Things Ann Arbor page, Stacie Cowie recently put out a request for old copies...
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Planting a Pocket Forest
At the end of February, the city’s Parks Advisory Commission heard an unusual pitch: The local...
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Bookshop in Motion
The Friends of the Ann Arbor District Library Book Shop will leave the downtown library for a...
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A Dean Departs
“I have long believed that careers should have chapters,” says LSA dean Anne Curzan....
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Bookseller Jay Platt
Every time Jay Platt walked past the building on his way to work, he thought it would be an ideal...
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Caregivers in the Family
Rosanita Ratcliff is a born traveler. She left Ann Arbor to go to college in Arizona, studied...
Read MoreQuestion Corner | March 2024
Q. The U-M is always growing, and when it purchases property in the city, it is removed from the city’s tax rolls. Does the U-M make any payments to the city for services such as police and fire protection, road maintenance,...
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