
Life After Prison
The state - and determined volunteers - are helping "returned citizens" navigate a changed world.
We thought we'd need only a third of the conference room at the county sheriff's community center. But by 6 p.m., so many people were coming in that one of the partitions was pulled back. As a line formed at the

Votes for Women
A century ago, Michigan finally boarded the suffrage bandwagon.
Patti Smith
"We can't be the first state ... why wait and be last?"--letter to the Ann Arbor Times News, 1918
In 1849, a special committee of the Michigan state senate issued a report recommending universal

The Roundabout Drivers Hate
The one at State and Ellsworth reduced traffic backups--but also caused more accidents.
"I never once imagined in my wildest imagination when we built it that we were going to have the number of fender bender noninjury crashes increase," says Washtenaw County Road Commission engineer Mark McCulloch

Decision 2020
Affordable housing, a schools challenge, and voting tips.
A pandemic changes everything--including voting patterns. Absentee ballots made up three-quarters of the votes cast in the August primary, and of those, 40 percent were cast more than two weeks before the
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