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Interview: Urban Farming Legend Will Allen
by Twilight Greenaway
IN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL book, The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities, we see a different side of MacArthur Genius and urban farmer Will Allen. The book takes readers behind the…
Months Before Retiring, County Head Start Director Paid For $1,846 Waikiki Sheraton Charge With County Credit Card
ON MARCH 11 The Ann Arbor Independent published its results of an analysis of almost 14,000 credit card charges made by Washtenaw County employees between 2011 and 2014. That analysis revealed multiple charges for luxury lodging, meals out…
UMHS CEO Dr. Ora Pescovitz To Step Down After Five Years
In January, The Indy revealed that UMHS had signed a 5-Year $45M deal with Life Technologies (LIFE), that Dr. Pescovitz held stock in LIFE and served on LIFE’s Board.
ON MARCH 17 Dr. Ora Pescovitz sent an email to her system’s faculty…
Commissioners Ask County Administrator To Report On Employee Stays At Vegas Casinos
County Administrator Verna McDaniel says Ann Arbor Commissioners Rabhi and LaBarre asked her to prepare a report that addressed The Ann Arbor Independent’s March 11 story that documents county employee and elected officials’ stays at Las…
ARTS & LEISURE: An Interview With Dror Burstein
by Jesse Kohn
Dror Burstein is a telescope. To read Netanya, the Israeli author’s new memoir, is to pass inside the Givatayim observatory where Burstein’s grandfather once accompanied him, where the magnified vision of the moon so…
Former AnnArbor.com Reporter Says Editors Killed His Brendan Gibbons Story in 2009
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…
THE ENVIRONMENT: U.S. Solar Industry Shattered Records In 2013—2014 Sales Set To Shine
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…
The Ecology Center Uses “Front Group” To Attack AAATA Millage Opponents
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 County 14a District Court Employees Use County Credit Cards To Make Dozens of Purchases At Ypsilanti Tim Horton’s
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…
Q & A: Washtenaw Watch Dogs Founder Dr. Douglas Smith
DR. DOUG SMITH, a pathologist, isn’t a guy who rolls over and plays dead in the face of injustice. Prior to July 2011, the University of Michigan’s campus trespass policy permitted lifetime bans. Between 2001 and 2011, 2,050 individuals…