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by B. Jessie Hill | The Conversation If you care about the future of abortion rights, now is a good time to worry. A sweeping Supreme Court victory for pro-choice advocates last summer was quickly overrun by worries brought on by the…

by The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team The 10th Anniversary Italian Film Festival USA of Metro Detroit opens on Wednesday, April 5 at 7 p.m. at the Detroit Institute of Arts’ Detroit Film Theatre with La pazza gioia (Like Crazy). A…

by Patricia Lesko The Council packet for the Mar. 20 City Council meeting includes the Deer Management: White Buffalo Report. The 22-page Year One Summary report includes information about the methods used to both harvest 96 deer and…

by The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Staff A pair of grassroots organizations working to change the way congressional and legislative districts are drawn in Michigan will host an informational meeting in Ann Arbor. Voters Not…

by Kirk Pinho | Crain's Even after Detroit's decades of decline, the state's largest city both by size and population still had bragging rights in 2014 as the one with the highest total real estate value: $12.3 billion. No more. In the…

by Patricia Lesko About 50 people from neighborhoods all over Ann Arbor attended a "Nowruz Neighbor" potluck at the Burns Park Senior Center on Sat. March 18 and wished each other “Sal-e Naw Mubarak,” or “Happy New Year” in Farsi, the…

by Manal Elfakhani There are many reasons to think about eating better, but they do not all have to do with weight loss. Your food choices can help reduce stress in your body by reducing the number of free radicals in your cells. We…

by Kathy Hoekstra | Watchdog.com Driven by a sex scandal at the state Capitol and lead in the Flint water supply, the Michigan House of Representatives approved bills aimed at fixing the nation’s worst open records law. The 10-bill…

by Laura Entis The Ann Arbor Police Dept. this week launched a Twitter account: @A2Police. In two days, Ann Arbor's women and men in blue have Tweeted out three times. In the same time period, one of the seven Twitter accounts of the New…

by Rob C. Smith At the beginning of March, the White House proposed gutting Environmental Protection Agency funding that pays for Great Lakes pollution cleanup by 97 percent, according to a budget document obtained by the National…