William Dennisuk and three helpers were waist deep in the Huron River in early June, installing a lightbulb-shaped metal sculpture near where the river enters the U-M Arboretum. The bronze rods caught the sunlight beautifully...
Read MoreAll of the Loyal Opposition candidates question council’s decision to build a new home for the city’s police force and Fifteenth District court. “We don’t have enough money,” says mayoral candidate...
Read MoreMayoral candidates John Hieftje and Pat Lesko are each aligned with a trio of council candidates in the August 3 Democratic primary: Hieftje with fellow incumbents Sandi Smith, Carsten Hohnke, and Margie Teall; Lesko with fellow...
Read MoreWith a month to go, the Ann Arbor Democratic primary is already the nastiest local election in a generation. What other election has had a mayoral challenger who says she’d vote for Satan before the incumbent–and the...
Read MoreIn April, the whiteboard in Pioneer head coach Jeremy Gold’s office listed a long roster of spring visits by colleges looking for football players. On May 11, Yale and Harvard were coming. On the following days, Penn and...
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It’s about to get a lot easier to recycle in Ann Arbor, a city which prides itself on being green. So why isn’t everybody happy?The city’s switch to single-stream recycling, starting in July, means residents...
Read MoreOn the weekend that the FBI raided the Hutaree militia, the war that Mark Koernke had prophesied for decades seemed finally to have begun. From his bunker–a dilapidated farmhouse just outside Dexter–Koernke went...
Read MoreQ: What are they doing to the US-23 rest stop just north of Ann Arbor?A: The building has been removed, and the parking lot was torn out too. It is a fresh start for a rest stop that was born in the 1960s. Part of a statewide...
Read MoreWhile Ann Arbor’s teachers negotiate a proposed 4 percent pay cut, the district’s custodians quietly agreed to give up twice that much.AFSCME negotiator DeAngelo Malcolm says he believes that “Everybody should...
Read More“We want to sound like someone you’d invite over for Sunday brunch,” says Michigan Radio program director Tamar Charney: “smart, informed, interesting, and polite.””In other words,”...
Read MoreClick here to view of zoomable map of April, 2010, crime reports from the Ann Arbor Police Department and the public safety departments of the U-M and Pittsfield Township.Sexual assaults took an alarming jump in April: seventeen...
Read MoreWhen philanthropist Joe Fitzsimmons sought some big donors to join the United Way’s Tocqueville Society a few years ago, he approached venture capitalist Rick Snyder.Snyder had already helped birth the economic development...
Read MoreA new study from University of Utah psychologists found a small group of people with an extraordinary ability to multitask: Unlike 97.5 percent of those studied, they can safely drive while chatting on a cell phone.University of...
Read MoreQ: What is the story behind the brick and wood structure on the south side of Broadway (at Swift) that has been inactive for decades? The location is so good, why hasn’t it been developed?A. Opened in 1969 as an Italian...
Read MoreWhen the armored truck broke down in Virginia, Brian Banks was relieved. Banks, an academic advisor at the U-M School of Art and Design, is the local coordinator for the Fundred Dollar Bill Project. Merging art and advocacy,...
Read MoreKate Long won’t plant the first seeds at her new Deer Tracks Farm in Ann Arbor Township till next year. But she’s already got a gaggle of potential customers for her organic vegetables–as well as volunteer...
Read More“THEY’RE BACK!” announced a message written on the blacktop path near Las Vegas Park in late March. And they were: the path was covered in chalk drawings depicting a virtual menagerie of characters you’ll...
Read More“I was shocked,” Alan Levy says. “I didn’t deserve this.” Levy, a retired U-M housing official, had thought that when he got back from vacation at the end of March, he’d lead the Ann Arbor...
Read More“It was forty years old, and it was dangerous,” says resident El Weir of the roads in his Scio Township subdivision, Wing Meadows. “I’ve lived here since 1973, and the road was getting really bad. And not...
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