Dec 1, 2010 | News |
That’s what AAPD chief Barnett Jones calls the recent rash of armed robberies at local businesses. Between the stickups at Schlanderer’s jewelry store, a second-floor marijuana clinic downtown, the Bank of America on...
Read MoreNov 28, 2010 | News |
Even before a Main Street store was robbed at gunpoint in September, people were describing the medical marijuana business as the Wild West.The new frontier opened when voters passed the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act in 2008...
Read MoreNov 12, 2010 | News |
At his first press conference of the 2010-2011 basketball season, Michigan head coach John Beilein was asked about the “ancillary advantages” of the his team’s quick summer jaunt to Belgium. “The biggest...
Read MoreNov 8, 2010 | News |
Barclay’s clerk Liz Igbawua remembers being a little perplexed when the teenage girl gleefully piling tops and dresses over her arm didn’t bother to try any of them on. But the girl’s indulgent dad murmured...
Read MoreNov 1, 2010 | News |
“It’s a bad year for Democrats,” says Bill Ballenger of Lansing, publisher of Inside Michigan Politics and onetime Republican state senator. Washtenaw County Clerk Larry Kestenbaum, a Democrat, agrees:...
Read MoreOct 31, 2010 | News |
When Rick Snyder announced he was running for governor in July 2009, he was almost unknown outside Ann Arbor. Though he holds three U-M degrees and was well respected in business and technology circles, even here he could pass...
Read MoreOct 29, 2010 | News |
City officials say the ninth annual Punk Week was the worst ever.”It was bad last year, and it was worse this year,” says city administrator Roger Fraser. “We’ve got a problem with a group of unruly...
Read MoreOct 29, 2010 | News |
When Melissa Lyon, twenty, left 14th District Court on September 1 she literally let down her hair–she took off a blond, pony-tailed extension to reveal that half of her scalp was shaved. Her attorney, Michele Kelly, had...
Read MoreOct 27, 2010 | News |
This past summer, the New York Times ran fifteen stories about bedbugs. The tiny parasites, which feed on human blood, have launched a panic by turning up everywhere from a Manhattan Victoria’s Secret store to the Brooklyn...
Read MoreSep 29, 2010 | News |
Ann Arbor’s newest newspaper may not have the budget or coverage of AnnArbor.com, but it does have at least one motivated vendor and a lot of heart.The first issue of Groundcover News came out in mid-July. It has news,...
Read MoreSep 28, 2010 | News |
Electric vehicles are becoming a reality, and Michigan is in the thick of it, with the Chevy Volt in production in Detroit and a factory going up in Holland to produce the Volt’s lithium ion battery.Ann Arbor has an...
Read MoreSep 26, 2010 | News |
A thin, worn-out-looking woman weeps as she embraces her eighteen-year-old son in the security line at Detroit Metro airport. “My baby going! My baby going!” Exasperated but patient, Ryan Richmond hugs his mother...
Read MoreSep 20, 2010 | News |
County treasurer Catherine McClary is trying to interest investors in a 218-condo site in Pittsfield Township, off Michigan Avenue near US-23. The second phase of Wellesley Gardens would be a turnkey project, she says: the...
Read MoreSep 10, 2010 | News |
They’ve been sighted coming out of the woods at dusk and dawn looking to chow down on rabbits, rodents, and other small mammals–like, say, cats.This spring, a neighbor spotted one “coming out of or going into...
Read MoreSep 7, 2010 | News |
For the third time in seventeen years, armed robbers hit Schlanderer & Sons jewelry in August. A worker at the downtown Sweetwaters took out the trash one afternoon and found a Schlanderer’s employee in the alley, her...
Read MoreSep 4, 2010 | News |
The summer of 2010 has been one of discontent for Michigan football. On the heels of 3-9 and 5-7 seasons (with a combined 3-13 in the Big Ten) new athletic director David Brandon proclaimed that “Rich Rodriguez is our...
Read MoreSep 3, 2010 | News |
To the frustration of Ann Arborites who fixed their sidewalks under orders from the city, many of their neighbors’ walks remain tilted and cracked. By law, if homeowners don’t make repairs, the city can hire...
Read MoreSep 1, 2010 | News |
When the Observer asked local politicos to guess the results of the August 3 Democratic primary, Lesko responded that her phone survey of 100 local residents showed her beating incumbent John Hieftje by a 60-40 margin. If her...
Read MoreAug 30, 2010 | News |
This was the year that tenants were supposed to be settling into the Broadway Village at Lower Town.But instead of the shiny new condos, retail, and office space promised by the developer, Broadway Village is 6.4 acres of...
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