EDITORIAL: Council Can Send A Strong Message By Rejecting Proposed Appointees to the Environmental Commission
SINCE NOVEMBER 2013, City Council members have shown they are prepared to more closely scrutinize proposed appointees to city boards and commissioners. Council’s newly-found backbone—comprised primarily of council members Mike Anglin in…
EDITORIAL: Ann Arbor District Library Trustee Must Resign
IN JANUARY 2011 Ann Arbor District Library Trustee Prue Rosenthal sent this email in response to news from the Library’s Executive Director that there had been two heroin overdose victims discovered at the Downtown Library: “Scary to think…
PERSONAL HEALTH: New Research Suggests Mentally Challenging Jobs May Keep Your Mind Sharp Long After Retirement
A MENTALLY DEMANDING job may stress you out today but can provide important benefits after you retire, according to a new study.
“Based on data spanning 18 years, our study suggests that certain kinds of challenging jobs have the…
PERSONAL HEALTH: The Power to Ward off Dementia—You Have It
by Jude Isabella
TO LIVE A dementia-free life, exercise, have at least one friend, live an interesting life, don’t fret, and bring your library books back on time.
Well, it’s not so much about bringing the books back on time as…
Ward 5 Resident Leon Bryson Decides To Run for City Council: “We need to get citizens more involved in decision-making.”
LEON BRYSON, a Ward 5 resident, has taken out nominating petitions, and is gathering signatures to have his name put on the ballot for the August 5 primary election. Bryson, a Democrat, earned his undergraduate degree in engineering from…
Infographic: Watch It. Read It. Tweet It. How Do Americans Consume News?
ACCORDING TO A new survey, 60 percent of Americans read or watch three to 10 news stories a day. The research also revealed that 56 percent of the 1,000 new consumers surveyed still pay for a print news subscription and 68 percent of those…
Consumer Confidence Levels in March Unchanged From December 2013 Levels
CONSUMER CONFIDENCE has remained largely unchanged in the past three months despite the hard winter, as well as a severe drought.
Consumer finances were just as strong in March as in December 2013, and more importantly, consumers viewed…
UPDATED: Ward 5 Council Member Faces Questions From Public & Council Members About His Ethics
Please note: This article was updated with a correction and a comment from Ward 2 Council member Sally Hart Petersen.
WARD 5 COUNCIL member Chuck Warpehoski is facing questions from both the public, as well as his Council colleagues…
“Scary to think of the effect if the public knew there was heroin dealing in the building.”—January 2011 Trustee Email To AADL Director
ON MARCH 17 Ms. Josie Parker, Director of the Ann Arbor District Library, spoke before Ann Arbor City Council and confessed that “over the past 36 months” there have been “five heroin overdoses” at the main branch of the public library. In…
Ward 5 Council Member Faces Questions From Public & Council Members About His Ethics
WARD 5 COUNCIL member Chuck Warpehoski is facing questions from both the public, as well as his Council colleagues concerning his open support of the AAATA’s May 6 transit millage ballot proposal. The Council member’s wife, Nancy Shore, is…
