“A lot of state representatives are running for senate,” says Fifty-Second District state rep Pam Byrnes. Byrnes is one of them. So is Fifty-Third District representative Rebekah Warren. Both want to succeed state...
Read MoreConventional wisdom says a Republican doesn’t have a chance to win Liz Brater’s Ann Arbor-centric state senate district. That hasn’t deterred Freedom Township farmer John Hochstetler and Northfield Township...
Read MoreLast 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read More“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...
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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...
Read MoreEven 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...
Read MoreWilliam 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...
Read MoreAll 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...
Read MoreMayoral 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...
Read MoreWith 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...
Read MoreIn April, the whiteboard in Pioneer head coach Jeremy Gold’s office listed a long roster of spring visits by colleges looking for football players. On May 11, Yale and Harvard were coming. On the following days, Penn and...
Read MoreIt’s about to get a lot easier to recycle in Ann Arbor, a city which prides itself on being green. So why isn’t everybody happy?The city’s switch to single-stream recycling, starting in July, means residents...
Read MoreOn the weekend that the FBI raided the Hutaree militia, the war that Mark Koernke had prophesied for decades seemed finally to have begun. From his bunker–a dilapidated farmhouse just outside Dexter–Koernke went...
Read MoreQ: What are they doing to the US-23 rest stop just north of Ann Arbor?A: The building has been removed, and the parking lot was torn out too. It is a fresh start for a rest stop that was born in the 1960s. Part of a statewide...
Read MoreWhile Ann Arbor’s teachers negotiate a proposed 4 percent pay cut, the district’s custodians quietly agreed to give up twice that much.AFSCME negotiator DeAngelo Malcolm says he believes that “Everybody should...
Read More“We want to sound like someone you’d invite over for Sunday brunch,” says Michigan Radio program director Tamar Charney: “smart, informed, interesting, and polite.””In other words,”...
Read MoreClick 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...
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