Apr 21, 2013 | News |
After 200 permit parkers moved from Liberty Square to the new Library Lane garage last year, the Downtown Development Authority reopened Liberty Square for hourly parking. But as the change rippled through its computer payment...
Read MoreApr 8, 2013 | News |
A drug developed in Japan in the 1980s could be the long-awaited answer to the obesity epidemic.The drug, amlexanox, has been found by researchers at the U-M’s Life Sciences Institute to be effective in reducing fat...
Read MoreMar 31, 2013 | News |
Two longs, one short, one long. That’s the drawn-out melancholy whistle you hear twice almost every night if you live near one of the eighteen places in town where the Ann Arbor Railroad crosses a city street. The whistle...
Read MoreMar 29, 2013 | News |
For years, my family had Christmas Eve dinner in the Japanese steakhouse side of the old Champion House at Liberty and Fourth Avenue. My kids loved the whole show, with its flaming food and flashing knives. But the last few...
Read MoreMar 21, 2013 | News |
Public libraries are often centers for local history research, but the Ann Arbor District Library is going a step further. In 2010, the AADL took custody of the archives of the defunct Ann Arbor News–a vast collection of...
Read MoreMar 10, 2013 | News |
When Barnett Jones ended his six years as Ann Arbor’s police chief last March, no one really expected him to stay retired.But who thought the fifty-nine-year-old would get two new jobs, as Flint’s public safety...
Read MoreFeb 27, 2013 | News |
“Today went fine,” John Shea says, after a long pause and a deep sigh. “Probably better than expected.”Shea is on his cell phone, talking as he drives back to Ann Arbor after what the media are calling...
Read MoreFeb 26, 2013 | News |
For the first time since taking office in 2000, mayor John Hieftje faces a skeptical city council. In two successive primaries, Second Ward voters turned out two of his closest allies, Stephen Rapundalo and Tony Derezinski....
Read MoreFeb 20, 2013 | News |
Stenographers–those gals (rarely guys) trained in something called shorthand–were in demand when Manpower, Inc., opened its doors locally fifty years ago. The area’s first temp agency sent them out wearing...
Read MoreFeb 15, 2013 | News |
On devices from smart phones to iPads, touch screens have become ubiquitous in the last five years or so. And that has an Ann Arbor company, Dynics Industrial Computer Solutions, riding a wave of touch-screen mania.”Four...
Read MoreFeb 8, 2013 | News |
Q. The State Theater doesn’t have an elevator, or handrails in the center aisle. Why don’t they have to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act?A. The State Theater is “grandfathered” and has not...
Read MoreFeb 2, 2013 | News |
Ann Arbor’s academics, political progressives, and people of faith talk a lot–just not necessarily to each other. That’s why the Reverend Joe Summers of the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation helped organize...
Read MoreJan 28, 2013 | News |
Of the ten years Stephen Postema’s been Ann Arbor’s city attorney, the past one’s been his best yet for big wins in court.The blond-going-gray lawyer hasn’t lost a lawsuit since he got the job. But...
Read MoreJan 26, 2013 | News |
Turning eighty last year, neurologist Sid Gilman proudly displayed all the hallmarks of a distinguished career: An endowed chair at the U-M med school. National acclaim as an expert in Alzheimer’s disease. The...
Read MoreJan 18, 2013 | News |
“It’s all over,” says Allison Dondzila of Cribley Drilling & Champion Water in Dexter. She figures the company finds dangerous levels of arsenic in the water of one out of twenty wells it drills, and it...
Read MoreJan 15, 2013 | News |
The Bird Center of Washtenaw County took in 1,002 injured or orphaned birds last year. Most died or had to be euthanized, 324 recovered and were returned to the wild, and as winter set in, the volunteers were still caring for...
Read MoreJan 8, 2013 | News |
Between 1944 and 1984, the Universal Die Casting factory occupied twelve acres of property on Monroe Street just south of downtown Saline. Built around the former Saline Creamery, it manufactured and electroplated die-cast zinc...
Read MoreJan 3, 2013 | News |
Ann Arbor’s decision to cancel its Christmas tree collection two years ago left a lot of folks unhappy. But as disappointments go, it’s nothing compared to the switch to single-stream recycling.The city rolled out...
Read MoreDec 29, 2012 | News |
Despite a tenacious campaign, Ann Arborites voted not to build a new downtown library. The decline of print media, an increasingly suspicious electorate, and a woman haunted by a dream all played a role. —On election...
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