New Study: Your Brain on Speed—You Actually Can Walk and Chew Gum
WHEN WE’RE STROLLING down memory lane, our brains recall just as much information while walking as while standing still—findings that contradict the popular science notion that walking hinders one’s ability to think.
University of…
EDITORIAL: We All Pay Dearly For Voter Apathy
THE CITY’S ROADS are a wreck despite an additional millage dedicated to street repair that generates between $8-11 million annually. Our city’s water and sewer infrastructures have been allowed to crumble, with large portions of those…
Over 1,800 Elementary Students Participate in the 12th Annual Science Olympiad—the Largest Number Competing in Any U.S. School District
by Donna Iadipaolo
Please note: Donna Iadipaolo has volunteered as a Science Olympiad coach every year for the past four years.
THE LARGEST SCIENCE Olympiad in the nation occurs each year in Ann Arbor thanks to the efforts of…
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…
EDITORIAL: John Conyers, Bob Dascola and Those Really Challenged When Running for Elected Office
25-TERM CONGRESSMAN John Conyers and would-be Ann Arbor City Council candidate Bob Dascola have a lot in common at the moment. Both men are fighting to have their respective names appear on the August 5 Democratic primary ballot. Dascola is…
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…
Natural Area Preservation Volunteer Events for the Month of June
ANN ARBOR NATURAL Area Preservation (NAP) works to protect and restore Ann Arbor’s natural areas and to foster an environmental ethic among its citizens. This involves conducting plant and animal inventories, ecological monitoring, and…
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.…
OP-ED: Shooting Racist Fish in a Barrel? Try a Little Harder
LISTENING TO THE radio, I caught part of a conversation between sportswriters Dan Le Batard and Bomani Jones. They were talking about the Donald Sterling incident and, for the most part, Jones was saying exactly what I feel about the whole…
Film Review: “Farmland”
by John DeFore
James Moll interviews a half-dozen twentysomethings who’ve chosen the challenging life of a farmer. Attractive but none-to-deep celebration of hard-working heartlanders.
SIX YOUNG AMERICANS share their experience of…
