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DEMOCRAT MARK SCHAUER’S choice of former state legislator Lisa Brown as his running mate serves notice that the Democrat’s 2014 gubernatorial strategy will focus on Michigan’s social fabric, which has become badly frayed over the past 36…

by  Ophira Eisenberg AS A CHILD, I would have told you that by 2014 we’d definitely have jet boots, pills for food and a woman hosting a late-night talk show. Instead we have selfies, Xanax and a bunch of white guys. When it was…

WARD 3 COUNCIL MEMBER Stephen Kunselman’s comments at a recent City Council meeting—about what some believe is a hushed-up, long-term problem with Class A drug sales and drug use in the AADL library system—illustrate a breakdown in…

SO YOU FINALLY got that upgrade you’ve been longing for or that must have computer gadget you didn’t think you could live without.  It’s all unpacked and the only thing in the way of setting it up is your old dated machine it will be…

by Matthew Thomas EASTERN MICHIGAN University  issued layoff notices to ten of its eleven full-time non-tenured faculty in the College of Education. Some have been with the university for decades. The layoffs are effective for the fall…

America’s seniors have historically been late adopters to the world of technology compared to their younger compatriots, but their movement into digital life continues to deepen. AMERICA’S SENIORS HAVE historically been late adopters to…

Information about the outside investigation was shared with commissioners “after the fact” and after commissioners had voted to eliminate county funding for Head Start. One commissioner asks whether the County’s funding for and…

I have never met Alan Goldsmith, but I have read hundreds of his comments posted to local news sites. Dr. Goldsmith called for an investigation of Council woman Marcia Higgins’ attendance record. To the credit of AnnArbor.com the news site…

WE HAVE COME to expect, sadly, the wholesale neglect of our roads by the city’s current mayor and his political allies on City Council, two of whom are currently running for mayor. In 2009, and again in 2011 state officials released a…

That Council member Chuck Warpehoski is using his position as the director of the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice to push a transit millage may be legal, but it’s certainly not how I intend my charitable donations to be used. Kudos…