Ypsilanti Archives - Ann Arbor Observer

Harmonica Master

Mar 31, 2024 | Culture, Nonprofits |

Peter “Madcat” Ruth was fifteen when he first heard blues duo Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry on...

The Big Get Bigger

Oct 25, 2023 | Education, News |

The U-M’s enrollment fell less than 1 percent during the pandemic and it’s been rising ever since.

Volunteering with FedUp Ministries

Aug 10, 2023 | Community, Community Services/Resources, Featured, Nonprofits |

Each Wednesday, seventy-one-year-old Phil Huhn and seventy-two-year-old Barbara Steer volunteer at...

Transit in Transition

Jul 25, 2023 | Community Services/Resources, Environment, Featured |

At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority’s ridership...

The Ypsi-Ann Drive-In Theatre

May 25, 2023 | Business, Culture |

For three decades the tower supporting the screen of the Ypsi-Ann Drive-In Theatre loomed over...

Dingell’s View

Nov 22, 2022 | Government, News |

Interviewed two weeks before the election, “the mob mentality” topped Debbie Dingell’s list of...

“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...

New Pathways

Oct 4, 2022 | Community, Environment, Featured |

If you stand on the corner of Freer and Dexter-Chelsea roads, at the northwest edge of the Oak...

Question Corner, August 2022

Jul 25, 2022 | Business, Government |

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...

Long Covid

Jul 25, 2022 | Health, News |

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...

Embracing Our Differences

Jul 25, 2022 | Community, Culture |

When Nancy Margolis, retired executive director of the Jewish Federation of Washtenaw County,...

The Social Services Shake-Up

Jul 25, 2022 | Featured, News, Nonprofits |

“I cannot imagine telling another young person to sleep outside,” Ozone House executive director...

Overdose Deaths Rise Again

Jun 24, 2022 | Community, Health |

As recently as twenty years ago, the county saw only a few heroin deaths a year—mostly older men...

AAATA’s Big Ask

Jun 24, 2022 | Community, Government, News |

TheRide has a 2.38 mill tax request on the August 2 ballot, up from the current 0.7 mills. If...

Election 2022

Jun 24, 2022 | Featured, Government, News |

In overwhelmingly Democratic Ann Arbor, where the mayor and all ten city councilmembers belong to...

Question Corner, July 2022

Jun 24, 2022 | Community |

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...