Ann Arbor

November is a month in which our natural surroundings become progressively more stark. The transition from the splashy colors of fall to a more monochromatic environment sends us looking for something visually satisfying.One is...

The department handles property that has completed its useful life at the university. A small fraction is recycled, sold for scrap, or thrown away, but the vast majority winds up for sale at “Dispo’s” retail...

Q. Often, I think maybe around this time of year, I see a large flock of seagulls, a.k.a. herring gulls, looking for food on the big Pioneer High School lawn southwest of the Main/Stadium corner. You rarely see those birds this...

In mid-October, an elderly couple stopped by the U-M’s Briarwood Medical Group for flu shots. They waited for forty-five minutes on a line that went up a long hallway and almost out to the street.”More people have...

Asked if he’s ever fazed by the misdeeds he sees as chair of the Michigan Attorney Discipline Board, Jim Cameron laughs. “Yes, I am,” answers Cameron, a practicing attorney in Michigan for thirty-seven years....

According to one national survey, Bo ranks forty-first among male dog names. But when Affordable Vet Services in Ann Arbor ranked the frequency of names of their canine patients, Bo came in twentieth. Staffers at other local...