Brooke Black

Dave Algase, Shelley Daily, Erica Hobbs, Alex Kourvo, Trilby MacDonald, Micki Maynard, Davi Napoleon, Nicole Ray, Drew Saunders

Michigan Medicine’s Ypsilanti Health Center attracts hundreds to downtown each day, but local businesses aren’t feeling the economic effects yet.

Activist campaign prompts Consumers Energy to abandon plans for a gas-fired plant in Lima Twp.

On the anniversary of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s August 1993 Supreme Court appointment, we share stories from four Ann Arborites who clerked for her.

July’s I Spy “depicts a segment of the Liberty Plaza mural at the corner of E. Liberty and S. Division,” says Ivana Tullett.

In late June, three Democratic state reps—Jason Morgan and Morgan Foreman of Ann Arbor and Jimmie Wilson of Ypsilanti—introduced legislation that would require university officials to follow local zoning requirements and ordinances.

It was going to be the usual: the name of the Fake Ad (Uomonuovo), the page number it appeared on in the July issue (61), and the number of entries (156).

Standardized test scores show that many Ann Arbor–area kids are struggling with reading proficiency. According to results released last year from the 2024–25 Michigan Student Test of Education Progress, only 56 percent of AAPS third-graders met or exceeded proficiency standards in English Language Arts.

In its 2025 annual report, released in late April, the Washtenaw County Health Department announced a promising decline in deaths from opioid overdoses, firearms, and suicides in 2024. Firearm deaths continued to drop in 2025, and preliminary data show a similar trend for opioid overdoses and suicides.

It took ten months and about a half million dollars, but Juicy Kitchen owners Aaron and Kelby Ziola have succeeded in reopening the popular breakfast and lunch spot after a fire last September closed it down.