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Here’s Con-way Freight’s problem: pick up 60,000 small consignments of freight from separate locations around North America–anything from a generator to half a dozen pallets of flooring. Bring them to one of...

Sunny or stormy, a group of people will work from midnight to 7 a.m. the last day of March, searching for the outdoor homeless–in tents, under bridges, in sleeping bags near churches. Yep the census bureau strikes...

Any way you lay it, 30,000 feet is a lot of pipe. In fact, it’s 5.7 miles–exactly the distance around the subdivision bounded by Packard, Washtenaw, Carpenter, and Golfside. Called Washtenaw Heights by its...

The woman calmly walked to the podium, dressed in her green prison jumpsuit. She smiled and joked with the bailiff as the attorneys conferred at the bench. She was handcuffed, so she used her left hand to help raise her right to...

The Ann Arbor Skatepark Action Committee is picking up speed. They’ve mobilized the base: 120 kids showed up at a city council meeting in May 2008 to voice their support. They’ve enlisted the Ann Arbor Area Community...

Since late November, drivers passing Pioneer High School have been puzzled by enormous mounds of dirt at the southwest corner of Stadium and Main. The “Allen Creek Stormwater Project at Pioneer”–a joint venture...

“It’s kind of the final leg of the race here,” says Jan Vescelius, director of Therapeutic Riding, Inc. TRI wants to build a new arena where people with handicaps can ride horses year round–and more of...

When Jesse Bernstein became president of the Ann Arbor Area Chamber of Commerce in 2006, it had between 1,300 and 1,400 members–a figure he aimed to double: “My goal was to get to 2,800 to 3,000 members as quickly as...

Click here to view of zoomable map of January, 2010, crime reports from the Ann Arbor Police Department and the public safety departments of the U-M and Pittsfield Township.Burglaries declined compared to January, 2009, and,...