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Governor Michigan - 2562 of 4877 Precincts Reporting - 53% Name Party Votes Vote % Snyder, Rick (i) GOP 854,370 53% Schauer, Mark Dem 730,621 45% Buzuma, Mary Lib 18,225 1%…

DONNA LASINSKI IS on AAPS Superintendent Jeanice Kerr Swift’s Blue Ribbon Advisory commission, a group of parents who meet with Swift monthly to give her feedback and counsel. Lasinski is polite and personable. She’s tough, too, and doesn’t…

IN SALINE, THE race for mayor has been contentious. Just days after Mayor Brian Marl released a statement in which he announced the endorsements of several elected officials, including county commissioners. Challenger Lee Bourgoin shot…

ACCORDING TO A new report titled “Monitoring the Culture of Sustainability at the University of Michigan,” dated Fall 2013, despite being provided with free rides on city buses, fewer than 10 percent of U-M’s 6,431 faculty and 35,846 staff…

by Donna Iadipaolo THIS FALL, HAISLEY Elementary School became the first school in the Ann Arbor Public Schools (AAPS) to participate in the national “Little Free Library” (LFL) program. The Little Free Library movement began in 2009…

by P.D. Lesko Veronique Liem has lived in the U.S. for 40 years, but she has a European sensibility. During the primary election season, unlike Probate Court candidate Tracy Van den Bergh, Liem made campaign donations to a number of…

With just days to go in the race to fill four seats on the AAPS Board of Education, Deirdre Piper has withdrawn from the crowded field of 10 candidates. She sent this statement is response to a question about her withdrawl from the race:…

INGRID SHELDON, IN her 70s, is small of stature but has a reputation that looms large in the city’s political story. A Republican, Ingrid (as she is ubiquitously known) is tied with Lou Belcher as being the  longest-serving Republican mayor…

by Rob Smith President Barack Obama is planning to speak at Wayne State University on Saturday Nov. 1—the last weekend before Election Day to stump for Democratic candidates U.S. Senate nominee Gary Peters and gubernatorial candidate…

IN AUGUST 2014 Council member Kunselman, (D-Ward 3), tried to convince his colleagues on City Council that it was unsafe and unfair to allow Uber and Lyft to continue to operate. Kunselman said that the companies skirt regulations and…