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by P.D. Lesko I AM AT  work on an investigative piece about money allegedly mishandled. I don’t want to give away too much, but suffice it to say the people involved would rather the story not be told. We’re all guilty of wishing we…

by Rob Smith ON AUGUST 8, 2014 the owners of the online site AnnArborChronicle.com announced that they will shutter their site on Sept. 2 after six years. The AnnArborChronicle.com is a self-described online newspaper that “focuses on…

by David Alexander WALKING ACROSS A makeshift bridge that straddles Malletts Creek, there’s not much to see in a 2.5-acre section of woods behind 3501 Stone School Road; there is little more than scrub, bushes and trees. But the members…

NEWSPAPER endorsements are controversial for any number of reasons not the least among which is that readers can interpret endorsements as a paper supporting a particular candidate. Over the past several years, papers from the  Chicago…

By P.D. Lesko IF A PLATITUDE falls from the lips of a political candidate and no one’s there to hear it, does it make a sound? The local media are breathlessly reprinting the platitudes offered up at the many mayoral forums sponsored by…

THE ANN ARBOR Independent conducted a reader survey between July 1 and July 15. We received a total of 260 completed surveys in both electronic and written formats. What follow are the final results of the survey. Not every respondent…

EVEN THOUGH THE event ticket said the party was set to begin at 6 p.m., curious, excited party-goers began showing up early. By 6 p.m., there was a line to enter the Top of the Park North Tent and by 6:45 p.m. the venue was packed.…

THE ANN ARBOR INDEPENDENT is in the midst of conducting its first reader survey. Thus far 170 individuals have elected to take the survey online. “This is a community newspaper,” said Patricia Lesko, whose decades old local publishing…

by P.D. Lesko AT A RECENT mayoral candidate forum, unabashed supporters of “crony capitalism”—what President Obama’s former economic expert Dr. Lawrence Summers called the Michigan Economic Development Corporation’s programs—defended Ann…

FORMER ANNARBOR.COM reporter Lisa Allmendinger announced on June 2 that she was shuttering her online news site DexterUpdate.com. Modeled on Allmendinger’s popular ChelseaUpdate.com news site, DexterUpdate.com wasn’t able to get the…