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by Cailin Heinze Pet food is an industry worth nearly US$25 billion in the United States. Owners make decisions about what to feed their pets based on marketing, personal beliefs and pet preference. And as with human nutrition, it can be…

by Peter Debruge This powerful story of a woman who hides Jewish refugees in her husband's zoo curiously leaves us caring more about the animals than its human souls. MPAA Rating: PG-13. Running time: 125 MIN. When it came to…

by Ari LeVaux If you're the kind of person who would make a lifestyle change based on its impact on the climate, you're probably already aware that your food choices impact the molecular balance of the atmosphere in ways pertinent to…

by The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Ann Arbor police are asking for help identifying a man who robbed a Comerica Bank Tuesday in Ann Arbor. According to police, the man entered the bank located at the corner of Washtenaw…

by Olivia Vigiletti For the 8th consecutive year, local nonprofit Dawn Farm has partnered with a group of University of Michigan nurses and anesthesiologists to host an event that allows people of all fitness levels to tackle the problem…

by Patricia Lesko Public school employee compensation is often a topic of scrutiny when school officials ask cash-strapped voters for additional money—in essence permission to go deeper in debt in order to pay the bills. In Ann Arbor, as…

by Mason Clark A student activist group at the University of Michigan is demanding campus officials provide them with “a permanent designated space on central campus for Black students and students of color to organize and do social…

by The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Two Ann Arbor-area doctors face significant prison time after they were found guilty on March 23 of writing unnecessary prescriptions for narcotics. The U.S. Attorney’s office in Detroit…

by Patricia Lesko Ann Arbor recently passed Detroit as the city with the highest assessed value in the state. In the realm of public safety, however, while the number of violent crimes and property crimes in Detroit have fallen, in Ann…

by Lauren Griffin | The Conversation Lying means you’re actually concerned about the truth. If you’ve been paying attention to the news over the past week or so, you know that over the weekend America was introduced to the concept of…