Dingell’s View
Interviewed two weeks before the election, “the mob mentality” topped Debbie Dingell’s list of...
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Dexter
Dems Dominate
“It’s a beautiful day,” says Ann Arbor state senator Jeff Irwin two days after Michigan Democrats won the executive, legislative, and judicial state elections on November 8. “We have a whole new set of opportunities to make our...
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Young Voters
“You’re automatically registered to vote when you turn eighteen in Canada,” the longtime social...
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Marketplace Changes in Dexter.
Do-it-yourself home decorators will discover finished and refinished handiwork, along with...
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New Pathways
If you stand on the corner of Freer and Dexter-Chelsea roads, at the northwest edge of the Oak...
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Mike and Caryl Burke
Mike and Caryl Burke met in a U-M physics class in 1971. Sparks flew, and they were married at...
Read MoreQuestion Corner, August 2022
Q. Can you explain Michigan’s rules for ordering wine shipments? A. Michigan’s laws governing alcohol sales are labyrinthine. When the 21st Amendment ended Prohibition in 1933, the state set up a three-tier regulatory system: a...
Read MoreLong Covid
It’s called “Long Covid,” and Smith is a member of a particularly susceptible population. In a new U-M study, one in four women reported symptoms lasting more than ninety days, compared to one in six men. “I didn’t need to be...
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Overdose Deaths Rise Again
As recently as twenty years ago, the county saw only a few heroin deaths a year—mostly older men...
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Election 2022
In overwhelmingly Democratic Ann Arbor, where the mayor and all ten city councilmembers belong to...
Read MoreQuestion Corner, July 2022
Q. “Not infrequently the mail delivery person will stomp across my front yard, and through my garden, to get to the next delivery, next door. Isn’t she/he expected to stay on the sidewalk?” A. A USPS communications specialist...
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Unemployment Hell
Jennifer Larke’s descent into unemployment hell started in April 2020. Not just because she lost...
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Lonely Dogs
“It was a good time to be a homeless animal,” says Huron Valley Humane Society director Tanya...
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Abortion after Roe
Briere, now retired to California, is speaking of the leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that...
Read MoreThe Eve and Annie Boutique Opens, Red Brick Kitchen & Bar and Barred Rock Cafe Close
The Eve and Annie Boutique launched online in 2018 with “a blend of Australian and Michigan lifestyle” dresses, tops, skirts, and pants, almost all priced under $50. Australian-born owner Jenny Ryle opened her first store in...
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A Pastificio on Broad St.
Michael Carosello, owner of Carosello Pasta, says that he signed his lease in March 2021 and...
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My Dexter Neighborhood
When Katherine Becker was a teenager, her family moved to a house off North Territorial Rd. It was...
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Trains Made the Town
On July 4, 1841—the day the first train arrived in Dexter—crowds began gathering early in the...
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More Trouble in Scio
At the end of last year, the township faced a lawsuit and Hathaway faced a recall drive (“Trouble...
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Watery Washtenaw
“When I drive around, all I see is what used to be here,” says Washtenaw County water...
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