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Some U-M professors started the fall semester with classes enrolling tens of thousands of students. But no one had to cram into a campus lecture hall. Instead, they’re enrolled in “Massive Open Online Courses,”...

“The governor grabbed both of us by the arm and said, ‘Tell me what I don’t know.'”That’s John Bebow, president of the Center for Michigan, recalling an encounter he and center founder Phil Power...

Once all this was Republican.For all but fourteen of the seventy years before 2000, Ann Arbor’s mayors were Republicans, and so were its city councils. But Republican Ingrid Sheldon saw the demographic ground shift beneath...

“I have no authority here at all,” the Rev. Yolanda Whiten announced to the line of voters that snaked throughout the basement of the Ann Arbor Community Center and out the door. “But does anybody here object...

The Fifty-Second District turned from blue to red two years ago when Republican Mark Ouimet won the state house seat previously held by Democrat Pam Byrnes. Now Gretchen Driskell wants to change its color again.Ouimet, a past...

The four candidates for two seats on the Twenty-Second Circuit Court are strikingly different in appearance.In one race, there’s incumbent judge Tim Connors with his bolo tie and scuffed cowboy boots versus Wayne County...

Paying for Public ArtOf all the possible city millages discussed in the last few years, from human services to safety services, an arts millage seemed the least likely–until August, that is, when a proposal to put one on...

Ann Arborites love their downtown library. But do they love it enough to spend $65 million to replace it?Last May, Ann Arbor District Library director Josie Parker and AADL trustees Ed Surovell and Prue Rosenthal invited Ellie...