“The November Fake Ad is for McCarran-Ferguson Insurance on page 64,” Walker writes. “The clue is cleverly hidden in the combination of insurance company mascots ‘Gecko or Hank the Emu’ (I hadn’t heard of Hank the Emu so that was the first doubt I had about this little ad). Clever hint in the name of the insurance company, named for the 1945 act that confirmed the rights of states to regulate insurance companies. Well played.”
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For a couple of years in the early 1970s, I shared a small two-story house on Warner Rd., a dirt...
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After struggling through a 19–15 season, Juwan Howard’s U-M men’s basketball team pulled it...
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On the morning of October 25, Sava Lelcaj Farah was attacked in her car in the parking lot behind...
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After sorting through thirteen candidates, voters last month returned twenty-year vet Susan...
Read MoreAngela Marie Barber of Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, was born in Greendale, Wisconsin, on November 3, 1961. She was the daughter of the late Angeline and Richard Barber and the oldest of five brothers and sisters. She attended Iowa...
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8/24/1951–10/31/2022 Saline, Michigan An incredibly special man left this world. Intelligent,...
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Maria Louisa Slowiaczek, 69, died on October 7, 2022, in Chicago, IL, after bravely facing a rare...
Read MoreGretchen Neal Jackson, 78, of Ann Arbor, MI, passed away on Oct. 25, 2022, at Glacier Hills Senior Community. She was born Jan. 20, 1944, in New Orleans, LA to Robert Frazer Neal and Hazel Atkinson Neal who predeceased her....
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7/19/1940–10/22/2022 Ann Arbor Claude Henry Baker was born on July 19, 1940, in Ann Arbor,...
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Q. What will the City of Ann Arbor do if the “Gelman Plume” contaminates Barton Pond? Is there an alternative source of water? A. This fiscal year the city will install two “sentinel wells” to watch for the plume approaching...
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That’s how Regenerate! Orchestra leader Clay Gonzalez describes their music. “We take a pretty...
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