Jun 29, 2011 | News |
The long-running battle between the city and the Ann Arbor Police Officers Association flared up again in March. The union contends that officers should pay less for their health care than other city workers because high levels...
Read MoreJun 25, 2011 | News |
“I’m going to be in the West Wing tonight–would it be all right if I took your book along?”Oran Hesterman’s Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All won’t be released till...
Read MoreJun 22, 2011 | News |
Howard Scheps “can’t exactly say” when he last rolled his trash cart to the curb in front of his east-side home. “Maybe right after Christmas,” says Scheps, who works in the Ann Arbor City...
Read MoreJun 14, 2011 | News |
A new model for U-M’s clinical psychology program marks a generational and gender transition.As late as the 1980s, “clinical psych” was a powerhouse. Ranked second in the country by U.S. News & World...
Read MoreJun 5, 2011 | News |
Not everyone at Borders’ corporate headquarters on Phoenix Drive is waiting until the end of June to see if publishers will throw a lifeline to the bankrupt company. A former employee at the once-bustling headquarters...
Read MoreMay 29, 2011 | News |
Governor Rick Snyder promotes his proposed budget as sharing the suffering required to fix the state’s structural deficit. Few local Democrats see it that way.”I don’t think anyone disagrees that there has to...
Read MoreMay 28, 2011 | News |
“People tell me I couldn’t have picked a worse decade to be mayor,” says John Hieftje with a rueful smile. Since he was first elected in 2000, state aid has slowed to a trickle, real estate values have...
Read MoreMay 16, 2011 | News |
It was the single largest change in Ann Arbor mail delivery history: on April 2, twenty city carrier routes were eliminated. According to Ted Sims, officer in charge of the Ann Arbor post office, ninety-eight of the remaining...
Read MoreMay 4, 2011 | News |
When times are bad, conventional wisdom says, crime goes up. The idea is that desperate times can drive even law-abiding citizens to desperate crime.Not this time. During the worst economic downturn most people can remember, the...
Read MoreMay 3, 2011 | News |
“Hello, I’m the parent of a special ed student,” began a recent robocall, asking voters to say yes in today’s vote on a special education millage renewal. Special ed parents have the most obvious...
Read MoreApr 29, 2011 | News |
“It’s not easy. You have to have a thick hide to live with the criticism,” says Dale Newman. “I’ve never Googled myself.” If he did Google himself, he’d find such headlines as “DTE...
Read MoreApr 28, 2011 | News |
“We can have an intelligent discussion of a city income tax here,” asserts city council member Tony Derezinski. “Because it’s a legitimate question: what should be taxed–income or property or...
Read MoreApr 23, 2011 | News |
Just outside Chelsea, two whole neighborhoods are missing. One should be southwest of town off Pielemeier Dr., the other to the northwest off Sibley. With their comparatively small lots, the new subdivisions were designed to...
Read MoreApr 11, 2011 | News |
Hard times usually mean more crimes, as some law-abiding citizens are driven to desperate straits. Not this time–at least so far. Reflecting a national trend, most crimes in most places in Washtenaw County declined last...
Read MoreApr 11, 2011 | News |
After filing for bankruptcy in February, the Borders Group will meet with creditors this month to outline its plans to reorganize itself and reinvigorate its business. In an email, CEO Mike Edwards told customers that the...
Read MoreApr 3, 2011 | News |
At AnnArbor. com’s economic outlook luncheon on March 11, Governor Rick Snyder praised the website and newspaper as an example of the “reinvention” the state needs. Afterwards, photographer Lon Horwedel...
Read MoreMar 31, 2011 | News |
In 1965, Esther and Ben Rubin moved into a new four-bedroom townhouse off Platt south of Packard. What would eventually be the 427-unit Colonial Square Cooperative was still being built, but as a blended family with four...
Read MoreMar 26, 2011 | News |
“We’ve made great strides,” says John Petz.Last June 1, Petz became the first board chair of the combined Ann Arbor / Ypsilanti Regional Chamber. In recent years, the neighboring chambers of commerce had seen...
Read MoreMar 10, 2011 | News |
“I’m in full ‘punt’ mode,” U-M conductor Jerry Blackstone emailed in February. For more than five months, Blackstone had been rehearsing the Choral Union for a pair of March performances of...
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