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Last July, Ann Arborites switched from sorting recyclables into two plastic totes to using a single ginormous wheeled cart. Since then, the city’s overall household recycling rate has risen 21 percent–from 8,857 tons...

On a sunny Saturday last winter, my friend Roberta and I headed out to the city’s Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) on Platt for a workshop on using earthworms to turn household garbage into garden compost. The setting was...

The AAPD is writing fewer parking and traffic tickets.After averaging $5.7 million a year for a decade, Ann Arbor’s ticket revenue dropped by a third between 2008 and 2010. Parking ticket payments fell from $2.5 million to...

For the third time in four years, TheRide is changing its bus stop at Arborland. For many years, both Ann Arbor- and Ypsi-bound buses stopped in the shopping center’s parking lot–until they were evicted by the its...

Unusually high water levels kept paddlers off sections of the Huron River this spring. But regardless of rainfall, canoeists can look forward to an easier river trip next spring. By then, the city should have completed its...

Jeff Irwin was heading to an AATA event in June when a journalist stopped him on State Street. Asked how it felt to be out of Lansing for the day, the freshman Democrat replied, “Great! Because it means we’re not in...

Shortly after the New Theatre Project spent $3,500 to remodel a space on Felch Street, the City of Ann Arbor discovered their performances were occurring in a building zoned as “light industrial” and sent TNTP...