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By Marc Joseph AS ENVIRONMENTALISM goes mainstream, corporations are marketing the word “green” as a panacea for the world’s climate crisis. Today the word describes a set of prescribed, mostly consumerist actions: buy local, organic and…

by Jill Richardson NICOLETTE HAHN NIMAN, author of Righteous Porkchop, just coined a new catchphrase that ought to go viral: “Sugar is NOT just an empty calorie.” Her statement contradicts the notion we’ve had for years that the worst…

DR. JEANICE SWIFT hopes to attract students from districts throughout Washtenaw County in the 2014-2015 academic year. AAPS has designated 100 seats in kindergarten, 100 seats in first grade, 25 seats in grades 3, 4, 5, 50 seats in grades…

IN ANN ARBOR IT is said that some bleed maize and blue. Between its 2009 launch and its 2013 end, journalistic “experiment” AnnArbor.com bled talent.  Reporters frustrated by low pay and, several say, difficulty getting hard-hitting stories…

According to GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association’s (SEIA) Solar Market Insight Year in Review 2013, photovoltaic (PV) installations expanded rapidly last year, increasing 41 percent over 2012 to reach 4,751 megawatts…

by Tom Watkins NEITHER CHINA NOR America is an island. What happens in one country impacts the other and often, all humanity. This makes China’s minority “problem” a world problem. The leadership of China met in Beijing in November,…

COLLEGE CAMPUSES ARE dangerous places for American women. According to figures from a U.S. Department of Justice study, 25 percent of college women will be victims of rape or attempted rape before they graduate within a four-year college…

MICHIGAN’S CAMPAIGN FINANCE laws, dating to the mid-1970s, require public disclosure of and set limits on many political contributions. Records for state offices are filed with the Bureau of Elections in the secretary of state’s office in…

Ecology Center spokesman says Partners For Transit is financing its own websites, phone banking, field and transit campaign organizer in support of AAATA’s May 6th millage request. Partners For Transit official says that group “has no…

WASHTENAW 14A COURT employees Colleen E. Turek and Lisa Mull have each used their county-issued credit cards to make dozens of purchases at the Ypsilanti Tim Horton’s. The most recent purchase was one for $57.42 made on February 7, 2014 by…