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The Schools’ Fiscal Cliff

Sep 28, 2013 | , |

“We’re all marching toward the cliff,” says Glenn Nelson, treasurer of the Ann Arbor school board, “and we want Ann Arbor to be far back in the line.”The cliff is the seemingly inevitable bankruptcy...

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A Seat at the Table

Sep 24, 2013 | |

Onetime Lions quarterback Eric Hipple has joined the former players suing the NFL–but he’s not in it for the money.Hipple got concussed on the field many times. Like the 4,400 other former players who’ve filed...

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New balance

Sep 1, 2013 | |

Four days after beating seven-term incumbent Marcia Higgins in the August Democratic primary, Jack Eaton sat in his kitchen enjoying his coffee and his victory. After two unsuccessful campaigns against Margie Teall, he’d...

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Is It Art?

Aug 30, 2013 | , |

On June 7, in public sessions at City Hall, four artists from around the country presented their plans for the new Stadium Boulevard bridges. As a member of the task force reviewing the designs, David Huntoon was...

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The New E-waste Landscape

Aug 14, 2013 | |

Ann Arborites gain new options for getting rid of those old TVs.Hot tickets or Black Friday sale items are usually the reasons behind lengthy customer queues. But drivers whose cars snaked slowly through the Pioneer High School...

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Ann Arbor at the Crossroads

Aug 6, 2013 | , |

“We’re at a crossroads of politics in Ann Arbor,” says Steve Kunselman, an incumbent city councilmember from the Third Ward on the southeast side seeking a fourth term.”We are at a turning point,”...

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7-Eleven Bottle Return Protest

Aug 1, 2013 | |

David Harrison’s picket flummoxed the AAPD—but the state is on his side.David Harrison deliberately chose noon on the Fourth of July to test the bottle return law at 7-Eleven on State Street—not so much because he was...

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Reinventing Malletts Creek

Jul 31, 2013 | , |

To grasp the scale and scope of the changes to the Malletts Creek watershed in recent years, visit the two big parks it flows through.Start at Mary Beth Doyle Park on the city’s southeast side. Enter from Birch Hollow...

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Lessons in Survival

Jul 26, 2013 | , |

“The way things are currently structured, it’s inevitable,” says Dexter school board president Larry Cobler. “At some point every school district in the state is either going to be under an emergency...

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Cancer Cuts

Jul 11, 2013 | |

Oncologists squeezed by the federal “sequester” are looking for help–from their patients. St. Joe’s docs sent out what one calls a “Dear Patient” letter emphasizing that while they will still...

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Catastrophic Reform

Jul 2, 2013 | |

“This is a cash grab, pure and simple,” says state rep Adam Zemke.Asked about his new job as Ann Arbor’s Fifty-Fifth District representative in the house, Zemke replies, “It’s very different being...

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Superintendent Scramble

Jul 1, 2013 | |

By the time Andy Ingall was hired as Chelsea’s school superintendent, he’d been in the district administration for thirteen years. He’d been director of instruction under superintendent Dave Killips, and, when...

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The Argo Cascades: Wild Ride

Jun 30, 2013 | , |

The city’s proud of the Argo Cascades–and why not? Since it opened last spring, the aquatic playground has won two design awards and proven enormously popular. River trips increased 57 percent last year, despite low...

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Burned Out!

Jun 7, 2013 | |

“I’ve had a lot of adventures in my life, but I could have done without this one,” says Tom Fournier, eighty-seven. As he cleaned up his kitchen one night last month, he noticed light flickering outside his...

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Fundraising’s New Wave

Jun 4, 2013 | |

Alarmed by the school district’s deepening financial hole, the twenty-two-year-old Ann Arbor Public Schools Foundation recently hired its first full-time director, Mary Cooperwasser. “It is time for all of us to...

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Green Religion

Jun 2, 2013 | |

“One minister called our wind turbine our steeple,” says Hannah Hotchkiss, welcome ministry coordinator at the First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Ann Arbor (UU). Across the country, thousands of faith...

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The North Main Puzzle

May 29, 2013 | |

On a sunny Wednesday morning in late March, a friend and I set out to explore the Bluffs Nature Area. The city parks website gives 1099 N. Main as the Bluffs’ address and includes a link to a park map. The map shows a...

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Failure to Communicate

May 28, 2013 | |

The recession was a rollercoaster ride for Washtenaw Community College. Income from local property taxes shrank by $9 million between 2008 and 2012, lopping nearly 10 percent off this year’s $95 million budget. As laid-off...

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A New Path for State Supremes

May 22, 2013 | |

At a talk at the Ann Arbor City Club in February, new Michigan Supreme Court justice Bridget McCormack said she’d enjoyed her first weeks on the bench and that her new colleagues had all been warm and helpful. But she...

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An Editor’s New Role

May 11, 2013 | |

In February, Michelle Rogers’ position of managing editor of Heritage Media-West was eliminated. Rogers oversaw eight Heritage weeklies, including the Chelsea Standard, Dexter Leader, and Saline Reporter. She says that she...

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