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“I was the resident Cassandra,” Marina Whitman recalls. “But I have to say that even in my most Cassandra-like moments, I never conjured up what’s actually happened.”Whitman was a vice-president of...

Last month we asked six local architects to evaluate downtown’s newest buildings. This month they turn their eyes to the U-M campus. Campus buildings earned some of our panel’s harshest criticism—and their highest...

Sparkling in the sunshine on a perfect fall day, Mill Creek cascades over rocks and meanders through quiet pools as it flows toward the Huron River. Turtles sun themselves on rocks, and minnows dart through the water. But from...

The day after Barack Obama was elected president, Stefanie Thacker made plane and hotel reservations for herself, her husband, and their two daughters to be in Washington, D.C., for the inauguration. As an African American,...

After nearly forty years of independence, Chelsea Community Hospital is giving up its autonomy for the safe harbor of a giant health care empire.The impending sale to Saint Joseph Mercy Health System, part of Novi-based Trinity...

On an unseasonably warm Saturday afternoon in October, seventy-three-year-old Bob Miller is in a bold mood. A descendant of Freedom Township’s early German settlers and a volunteer local historian, he’s bent on...

Beginning in the parking lot below the U-M Hospitals, Nichols Drive runs along a steep, curved bank of glacial moraine that rises at a forty-degree angle to a height of eighty-five feet. And it runs right alongside a wicked...

[This article from the September 2008 Ann Arbor Observer is reprinted as background to Borders’ announcement today that both CEO George Jones (shown) and CFO Ed Wilhelm have been replaced.]If Borders Group’s recent...

“As long as we stick together,” says county commissioner Jessica Ping, “we can do this again next year.”Ping lives in Lodi Township, which contracts with the county sheriff’s department to provide...