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by P.D. Lesko Data collected by Michigan's State Court Administrative Office shows that the judges who serve the people of our county have seen a slight uptick in the total number of cases filed between 2021 (47,026) and 2024 (52,164).…

by Andrew Roth The University of Michigan’s statewide hospital network will stop providing gender affirming health care service for minors, bowing to pressure from the administration of President Donald Trump. The statewide hospital…

House lawmakers are trying to counter a statewide campaign aimed at getting the method enshrined in the state constitution. by Hayley Harding, Votebeat Just as efforts to add ranked choice voting to the Michigan Constitution are…

by P.D. Lesko At its Aug. 12, 2024 meeting, four members of the Board of Trustees of Scio Twp. voted to dissolve its Downtown Development Authority (DDA). Clerk Jessica Flintoft and Trustees David Read, Kathleen Brandt and Kathy Knol…

by P.D. Lesko On Aug. 12, 2025, Scio Twp. Supervisor Jillian Kerry was bound over for trial in the 22nd Circuit Court on charges of two alleged felony computer crimes. Judge J. Cedric Simpson of the 14-A District Court listened as…

by Christopher Porter The first tale in Dr. Ursula Whitcher's novella-length short-stories collection, North Continent Ribbon, offers a striking example of the sci-fi author's poetic prose: I stepped toward him with a…

8/7/2025: This article was corrected to reflect the percentage of its total expenditures the Friends of the Ann Arbor Library expended on lobbying. by P.D. Lesko In a July 30, 2025 letter signed by Rena Basch, County Clerk Larry…

by P.D. Lesko After an expensive and bitter battle between the Library Green Conservancy, the AADL Board members and City Council members, on August 5, 2025 Proposals A (to revoke the 2018 Charter amendment which called for the creation…

Playwright David Wells’ Radical Empathy is a challenging look at that movement through the relationship of an American couple and an Iraqi couple during the conflict between U.S. forces and ISIS from 2011 to 2018. by Hugh Gallagher …

by Jay L. Zagorsky Recently, Delta Air Lines announced it would expand its use of artificial intelligence to provide individualized prices to customers. This move sparked concern among flyers and politicians. But Delta…