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Last month, several homeowners on Arborview watched in amazement as heavy equipment pulled up in front of their houses and workers started jackhammering the sidewalk slabs that they had installed just two years ago during the...

The three Democratic council primaries on August 3 each have their own issues–core services, the Stadium bridges, and flooding among them. But beyond the incumbents’ loyalty to current mayor John Hieftje and the...

“I don’t know that we’ve always played well together,” says Mo Riley, the newly hired director of the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair, the Original. Though the fairs have often cooperated in the past, relations...

Cardiologist Rob Steele is running for Congress–from Ann Arbor, as a Republican–against Democrat John Dingell. At a fund-raiser in Barton Hills at the end of May, he schmoozed, moving from couple to couple and...

Even as the website with the acorn logo has boosted its traffic, the twice-a-week print newspaper, also called AnnArbor.com, reaches far fewer households than the old Ann Arbor News.While they acknowledge some missteps in...

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...

All 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...

Mayoral 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...

With 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...