Click 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...
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When 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...
Read More“Three things make up a bar: alcohol, adults, cigarette smoking.” So says Steve–he wouldn’t give his last name–a manager at the Old Town. He’s reacting angrily to the statewide ban on smoking...
Read MoreWest Park, once a thriving year-round hub of activity, is now often deserted, even on warm summer days. But thanks to the Obama administration’s economic stimulus money, it’s getting a million-dollar makeover....
Read MoreEarly on a chilly fall Saturday, a man stood just outside the Farmers’ Market on Detroit Street. His face almost hidden in a hooded sweatshirt, he looked like a blue-collar worker among the tidily dressed academics and...
Read MoreThe car racing the lightat Observatory and East Medical Center Drive didn’t even slow as the signal turned yellow, then red. The walk signal lit up, and a woman waiting to cross East Medical Center stepped into the street...
Read MoreWhen the Zaragon Place high-rise on East University opened last fall, its rents set new records for campus housing: two-bedroom apartments listed for $2,500 a month, six-bedrooms for $6,000. Yet this coming fall tenants will pay...
Read More“Now we have a building that’s working with us,” says Tanya Hilgendorf.Executive director of the Humane Society of Huron Valley since 2005, Hilgendorf led the sometimes-bruising battle to replace HSHV’s...
Read MoreWhen Congress passed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) last spring, it earmarked $21.5 billion for scientific research, equipment, and construction projects. Because it didn’t require that the...
Read More“Last year was very stressful,” admits county administrator Bob Guenzel. “I worked more than I’d ever worked, and I had trouble sleeping. My wife said I didn’t talk in my sleep, I yelled.”His...
Read MoreJust a few months into reviewing development proposals for the city-owned property known as “the library lot,” city council member Stephen Rapundalo sounds weary.”I don’t know where the conspiracy...
Read MoreClick here to view of zoomable map of February, 2010, crime reports from the Ann Arbor Police Department and the public safety departments of the U-M and Pittsfield Township.Burglaries continued their seasonal recovery from the...
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