Aug 17, 2009 | News |
Q: What is the story behind the houses being built on the northeast corner of Nixon and Bluett? Why would anyone build a bunch of new houses in this economic climate?A: The developer, Mohammad Sarwar, moved to Ann Arbor to be...
Read MoreAug 14, 2009 | News |
Vacant so long that part of the roof has collapsed, the faded white house at 1315 North Main is surrounded by a jungle of overgrowth. Neighbors can’t recall who last lived there, and for years the county unsuccessfully...
Read MoreAug 11, 2009 | News |
For undocumented immigrants, the recession is especially brutal.”I’d say my income has gone down about 40 percent,” says “Manuel,” a dishwasher in a local restaurant. “There aren’t many...
Read MoreAug 7, 2009 | News |
UAW trainer Luis Vazquez is planning a protest. Not at GM–what’s the point?–but at the Ann Arbor Farmer’s Market. The former market commission chair says he plans to target Kapnick’s Orchards, which...
Read MoreAug 2, 2009 | News |
In dark blue Ann Arbor, the August Democratic party primary is the local vote that matters. No Republican has won a seat on city council since 2003.But the end of partisanship hasn’t meant the end of politics....
Read MoreAug 2, 2009 | News |
AnnArbor.com has far fewer journalists than its predecessor, the Ann Arbor News, but far more bloggers. Ed Vielmetti, the social media pioneer hired to wrangle the independent web publishers, expects the site to launch with...
Read MoreAug 1, 2009 | News |
Click here to view a zoomable map of June crime reports.Burglaries, a seasonal crime, rose slightly in June compared to May. Vehicle thefts also increased slightly month-to-month, but both crimes remained well below last...
Read MoreJul 31, 2009 | News |
Two Ecorse men wrongfully convicted in a 2001 shooting finally were set free from prison today when the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office dropped the charges against them.DeShawn Reed and his uncle, Marvin Reed, gained...
Read MoreJul 28, 2009 | News |
Mayor Hieftje was brimming with optimism when he unveiled his ambitious plan for a train to Howell in the summer of 2006. “No passenger train had run the route in decades,” he recalls. “I wanted to demonstrate...
Read MoreJul 25, 2009 | News |
If you take a hike on the Potawatomi Trail in the Pinckney State Recreation Area, you’ll see majestic trees, lovely wildflowers, twittering birds, skittish squirrels—and waves of mountain bikers approaching head-on. Such...
Read MoreJul 20, 2009 | News |
Click here to view this month’s Crime Map.Sexual assaults and burglaries both rose in May compared to May 2008, while vehicle thefts and robberies declined.#PAGEBREAK#May 2009 Crime totals (including attempts)Burglaries...
Read MoreJul 16, 2009 | News |
Last fall, two Chelsea teens died in a motorcycle crash, and a nineteen-year-old Chelsea resident later was charged with supplying them alcohol.It was the latest in a series of accidents involving area youths, vehicles, and...
Read MoreJul 13, 2009 | News |
Faced with a $26 million revenue shortfall over the next two years, the Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners voted in early June to cut its own $600,000 budget by 11 percent. But at first glance, even the new $534,000 figure...
Read MoreJul 10, 2009 | News |
This morning, two men who were wrongfully convicted of attempted murder finally got the news they’d been waiting for years to hear. And the U-M Law School’s Innocence Clinic won a spectacular victory.On a Sunday...
Read MoreJul 8, 2009 | News |
Jerry Colone tested trucks at the Chrysler Proving Grounds for thirty-four years. Now, he says, the huge complex southwest of Chelsea is “like a ghost town.”Employment at the grounds has fallen from 700 five years...
Read MoreJul 7, 2009 | News |
It’s a weekend night, and Ann Arbor police respond to a call about an agitated man expressing homicidal thoughts. When they get to the scene, though, they realize he’s doing nothing illegal—he’s made no...
Read MoreJul 5, 2009 | News |
Heritage Newspapers, which publishes the Saline Reporter, the Chelsea Standard, and other area papers, will debut its weekly A2 Journal on July 9, less than two weeks before AnnArbor.com ‘s July 20 launch. Heritage, whose...
Read MoreJul 1, 2009 | News |
“I fear for my community and my state,” says bankruptcy trustee Doug Ellmann.Ellmann sees Michigan’s raw economic wounds in Ann Arbor’s federal bankruptcy court. “I’m definitely seeing a lot...
Read MoreJun 30, 2009 | News |
It’s not easy being Ron Olson these days. Olson, who headed Ann Arbor’s parks system for twenty years, now runs the parks and recreation division of Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources. And managing one...
Read MoreJun 21, 2009 | News |
Pat Lesko has a simple but radical idea: require voters’ permission before the city issues “general obligation” bonds. She got the idea after working on a petition drive last year that tried to force a vote on...
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