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by Diane Starkey How very generous of Coach Jim Harbaugh at the University of Michigan to offer to adopt the children of any of his football team member's "unplanned pregnancies." Since all of them are male, and his wife seems to…

by Martha Stuit, Pulp Characters in Lydia Conklin’s Rainbow Rainbow perch on the precipice of something—a decision, a change, the start or end of a relationship, or even the dangerous cliff above a quarry where people…

by P.D. Lesko For the past 22 years, Democrat Lois Allen-Richardson had been a fixture on Ypsilanti City Council. In 2020, Richardson was appointed to fill the Mayor's seat, the first Black woman to serve as mayor of Ypsilanti. With all…

Fifty percent of Washtenaw County Republican voters cast their votes for Trump-backed gubernatorial challenger Tudor Dixon. The Associated Press has called the primary in favor of Dixon who captured 40.2 percent of the 871,863 votes cast…

While the polls closed at 8 p.m., Washtenaw County and Ann Arbor election workers are still tallying results. As of 11:59 p.m., 38 percent of the County's 151 precincts had been fully counted. In Ann Arbor, City Clerk Jackie Beaudry said…

by Aaron Schroeder Close your eyes and imagine for a moment you’re 15-years-old again. Seems like a pretty carefree age, right? Now imagine that one way or another, you were accidentally outed to your parents as gay. Maybe you thought…

Rick Snyder, the governor of Michigan from 2011 to 2019, has teamed up with his former state CIO David Behen to start a cybersecurity company. Behen is a former Facilities Manager for the City of Ann Arbor. He also worked for Washtenaw…

by Genevieve O'Gara In 2017, Ann Arbor City Council instructed the AAPD to stop collecting information pertaining to the immigration status of individuals. Council did not pass a resolution proclaiming Ann Arbor a "sanctuary city."…

by P.D. Lesko A disgruntled AAPD officer alleged in a 2020 email to Council members that was released to The Ann Arbor Independent as the result of a Freedom of Information Act request, that Ann Arbor Police Chief Michael Cox "cost…

by J.B. Miller I read the article about Taylor's harvesting of public emails, likely for campaign purposes. As I read the article, I was curious to see who the campaign staffer was and looked closely at the header of the email graphic…