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The University of Michigan Board of Regents has appointed a committee of faculty, staff, students and alumni to assist with the search for the University of Michigan's next president and to collect feedback from the university community.…

To Claim Our Hero, We Must Also Own Our Hate by Jay Saper While we as Michiganders may take pride in Ann Arbor-educated Rabbi Cytron-Walker having heroically helped his fellow congregants held hostage at his Colleyville, Texas,…

by P.D. Lesko "If you want to work on affordability, the thing that you do is try to increase supply. So, that is going to be a community conversation that we are going to continue to have. Obviously it’s going to mean that we have to…

by P.D. Lesko Note: Our family belonged to Congregation Beth Israel from 1992-2004. I served on the Board in the early-90s. When the protests by Witness for Peace began, we were members of the synagogue. We joined Temple Beth Emeth…

by Maggie Villiger More than two years after the first cases of COVID-19 were diagnosed, people are exhausted by the coronavirus pandemic, ready for all this to end. When – if ever – is it realistic to expect SARS-CoV-2 will recede from…

by Claire Hao (This column originally appeared in Medium.com, an open-source blog site) #BREAKING: Mark Schlissel is down horrendous. To quote one of the best jokes I’ve seen floating around, “it started out with a knish, how…

by Anna Gustafson, Michigan Advance Ten million free KN95 masks are now available to Michiganders as they continue to face the fast-spreading omicron variant of COVID-19, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Thursday.  The KN95 masks are…

The City of Ann Arbor began offering monthly winter curbside compost cart collection on Jan. 3, 2022.  The monthly pick-ups will occur the first full week of each month, with curbside compost car​t service taking​ place during the weeks…

by Patricia Lesko Ann Arbor and the environment need expanded non-motorized transportation infrastructure. The need is particularly acute on Main St., State St., and Liberty. When the Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority (DDA) came…

Updated 1/24/22 with comments from Nicole Beverly. by P.D. Lesko On January 18, 2022, after the results of an independent investigation into allegations of mismanagement were delivered to the SafeHouse Board of Directors, long-time…