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...
Read MoreSince 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...
Read More“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...
Read MoreWhen 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...
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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,...
Read MoreThe Washtenaw County Road Commission’s budget was reduced 10 percent this year. Roy Townsend, WCRC director of engineering, says that’s meant less maintenance on county roads and delayed construction projects. And...
Read MoreQ. How does the pay for Ann Arbor’s mayor and city council people compare to other cities in the Midwest?A. These comparisons can be tricky, because job descriptions vary–some cities employ a city administrator in...
Read MoreSteve Gutterman paid $80,000 at a November foreclosure auction to buy 715 Miller, aka the RAW Haus (“Punk Paradise Lost,” November). The former musicians’ and artists’ collective was missing its front...
Read MoreU-M freshman Emily Samuelson was in the checkout line at Kroger when the person behind her shyly asked, “Aren’t you the girl going to the Olympics? I saw you on TV.” “It’s strange to be...
Read MoreLast February, an average of eighteen sellers showed up each week at the public market on Fourth Avenue–compared to an average of ten or eleven in the previous two Februaries. Manager Molly Notarianni thinks the totals...
Read MoreClick here to view of zoomable map of December, 2009, crime reports from the Ann Arbor Police Department and the public safety departments of the U-M and Pittsfield Township.Crime was down slightly in all tracked categories in...
Read MoreA design for a planned town-gown transit station on Fuller Road at East Medical Drive could be ready as early as this month. But Ann Arbor residents looking at drawings of the Fuller Road Station may still wonder what’s in...
Read MoreAs other automakers close plants and shed jobs, the Automotive Component Holdings plant in Saline has been adding them. Since the start of 2009, the former Visteon/Ford parts plant has taken on more than 400 people, bringing its...
Read More“It was like they were raised by wolves,” says Mike Stearns.Stearns, an Ann Arbor financial planner and 1981 U-M grad, is secretary of the alumni group that owns the Sigma Chi fraternity house next to the Michigan...
Read MoreTen years ago, one in every seven trees in town was an ash–in some subdivisions, they made up half of the urban canopy. Then an emerald ash borer infestation was discovered in 2002, and within a few years, all 22,000 ash...
Read MoreMore than three years after Michigan voters passed Proposal 2 outlawing affirmative action in state institutions, the U-M is feeling its effects: just 8.2 percent of 2009’s freshman identify themselves as African American...
Read More“What happened to my graphics staff?” muses Jean Jennings, president and editor-in-chief of Automobile magazine, repeating a question asked of her. “Well, that’s pretty easy. They went to Car and...
Read MoreThanks to good records–and a helpful bureaucrat–the city has dodged a half-million-dollar bullet.It was a financial nightmare that nearly caused a human tragedy: a bookkeeping error that threatened to force the Ann...
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