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After Four Years, Heritage Media Closes A2 Journal, Pulls Out of Ann Arbor, & Launches New Weekly Publication Titled Washtenaw Now
by P.D. Lesko
Please note: This piece was corrected to reflect the fact that the A2 Journal published on Thursdays only. We apologize for the error.
IN 2009, AFTER Advance Publications shuttered the former Ann Arbor News, Heritage…
Officials Charge High Fees for Public Records Relating to Alleged Retaliatory Dismissal of City Employee
ANN ARBOR CITY Administrator Steve Powers, hired in 2011, has sent an email to a City Council member claiming that high fees assessed for providing public records are justified because “...there is a direct benefit provided to the…
Lives Forever Changed—Type 1 Diabetes, A Two Part Series Part Two: Research & Hope
Read part 1 of this series here.
by Dave Alexander
UNLIKE DISEASES SUCH as cancer, diabetes progresses slowly. Because of its slow-moving nature, getting answers as how to best treat and prevent the disease can be difficult.…
A2POLITICO: Proposed City Budget Should Focus on the Results of the 2013 Citizen Survey
by P.D. Lesko
IT’S USUALLY DEATH and taxes that define the inevitable. However, in the city’s 2013 National Citizen Survey, comments about roads and taxes dominated the open-ended question responses. Respondents were asked to record…
Haisley Elementary Teacher’s Fifth Graders Send Letters: Nobel Laureate, Supreme Court Justice and U.S. Attorney General, Among Others, Write Back
by Donna Iadipaolo
ALMOST EVERY SCHOOL year in Ann Arbor, Haisley Elementary School Teacher Cedric York instructs students in his fifth-grade class to write to prominent leaders from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds. Mr. York…
Protected Bike Lanes Drive Economic Activity & Appeal to Millennials—What’s Ann Arbor Waiting For?
IN 2000 THERE were eight miles of bike lanes in Ann Arbor. City officials recently began touting the number of “lane miles” of bike lanes: 71.8 (a lane mile is a mile on one side of a two-land road). The mayor often tells media that Ann…
Indie Films—A Trio of Reviews from the Tribeca Film Festival
“Gabriel”
Rory Culkin stars as a mentally unstable youth convinced that tracking down his first love is the answer to his problems in director Lou Howe’s debut feature.
by Dave Rooney
Venue: Tribeca Film Festival (World Narrative…
What’s Cookin’ Good Lookin’? Ann Arbor Democratic Club Holds Its Annual Chili Cook Off
By David Alexander
INSIDE THE ANN ARBOR Community Center last Sunday afternoon, volunteers peeled covers from shiny aluminum tins, revealing a plethora of corn bread, coleslaw and chili. The scent of food — chili powder, vegetables,…
Lives Forever Changed—Juvenile Diabetes, A Two Part Series: Part One, Diagnosis, The 0.00042 Percent
Part One: Diagnosis, The 0.00042 Percent
by David Alexander
FOR ROUGHLY TWO months last fall, Ann Arbor 8th grader Bram Lesko was urinating about once an hour. But he didn’t know why.
“I wasn’t drinking that much water,” he said.…
EDITORIAL: AAATA Millage Proposal Drive—Expensive, Deceptive and Manipulative
Please note: Editorial Board member Katherine Griswold did not participate in shaping this editorial.
STAFF AT AAATA first agreed to a meeting with The Ann Arbor Independent’s Editorial Board concerning the proposed millage. Then, after…