The drama of who’s running for city council began in March when Bob Dascola went to federal court to get a place on the ballot and climaxed in June when Dascola won his case and Leon Bryson abruptly ended his campaign.That...
Read MoreFollowing a successful bus millage vote in May, 2014, the AAATA (the new third “A” is for “Area”) is drastically increasing route miles and hours in four phases over the next four years. The first phase...
Read MoreJulia Owdziej was in the middle of a phone interview about her campaign for probate judge when her other phone rang. She politely excused herself. A few minutes later she came back on the line and said, “They’re...
Read MoreIt looks like Will Hathaway and his mom, Mary, will finally get what they’ve dreamed of for years: a park on top of the underground Library Lane parking structure next to the Ann Arbor District Library. “My mom has...
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The number of Ann Arbor cars and light trucks equipped for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication is about to triple.The high-tech gear required for vehicles to communicate with one another about their location, speed, and...
Read MoreStanding at the corner of Miller and West Delhi roads, Dagmar Moore points to an array of pink flags dotting the green field to the northeast.”That’s where they’ll go,” she says. “Oil derricks with...
Read MoreThe tumors were gone. A month earlier, scientists at the Pfizer laboratories on Plymouth Road had begun dosing mice bearing human tumors with a new kind of cancer drug. Now technicians examining the mice could feel nothing...
Read MoreFrom the mid-1980s through 2012 the horse race to watch in Ann Arbor real estate was between the Charles Reinhart Company and the Edward Surovell Company. “Every January, the numbers would come out,” laughs Steve...
Read MoreA “Farewell Mary Sue” party in mid-March pulled out all the stops. Jeff Daniels introduced President Coleman to the crowd at the Michigan Union–faculty, staff, regents, and a lot of students. Regent Andrea...
Read More“By law we have to pass a balanced budget by our last meeting in June,” says Ann Arbor school board trustee Glenn Nelson. “This year that’s June 25.”To get there, the board will have to close a...
Read MoreThree or four years ago, Saline mayor Brian Marl recalls, then police chief Paul Bunten told him that Washtenaw County officials were alarmed that “heroin is becoming more prevalent” in the county. Until then, Marl,...
Read More“I was shocked by the margin of victory,” says Ecology Center director Mike Garfield. “I thought it was going to be close,” says Garfield of the May vote on a 0.7-mill tax to expand bus service in Ann...
Read MoreIt begins with a mistake. A doctor botches an operation, misses something on an MRI, or fails to make a diagnosis. Medical lawsuits are nothing new. Doctors are human. They make mistakes, and injured patients expect to be...
Read More“The secret bonuses blew me away!”That’s U-M history prof Juan Cole, describing his response to the news that a growing number of university employees–chiefly top administrators–are receiving hefty...
Read More“The overriding influence on the pension plan over the past five years was the recession and the stock market crash,” says city administrator Steve Powers.Nancy Walker, executive director of the city’s...
Read MoreWith a few days’ notice about President Obama’s April visit, the U-M spread more than a red carpet. Apparently, when the White House decided the eighty-plus-year-old Intramural Building was a choice spot for a...
Read MoreIf Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, and Ypsilanti Township voters approve the transit millage on the May 6 ballot, property taxes in the three communities will go up $70 a year for every $100,000 in taxable value. That would increase local...
Read MoreThe Environmental Protection Agency’s National Vehicle & Fuel Emissions Laboratory has quietly gone about its business on Plymouth Rd. since 1971, writing emission standards and testing cars and fuels sold in the...
Read More“Lisa” was ten years old the first time she was sold for sex. Sexually assaulted by her father at an early age, she’d been placed in a foster home in Lansing. But her foster mother was physically abusive, so...
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