As the owner of the Herb David Guitar Studio for 50 years, I have experienced the highs and lows of the ever-changing “Downtown, Liberty and State Street” businesses. The blatant shift from individual driven, personal care and service, to generic, cookie-cutter franchise establishments is destroying the once inventive and diverse ...
Earlier this month, U.S. Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee reintroduced legislation that would drastically reduce the term for design patent protection from 14 years to a mere 30 months for automotive repair parts.
(Editor's note: This editorial is written by Chris Savage, a Dexter resident who owns and operates Eclectablog.com. He is also co-vice chair for precinct organizing for the Washtenaw County Democratic Party.) In his Feb. 14 piece "Why bankruptcy is worse for Michigan cities than emergency managers," Nathan Bomey suggests that ...
A couple of one-liners about regulatory laws in Michigan and the United States earned some giggles for our comedians-in-chief during both the State of the State and the State of the Union addresses, with Gov. Snyder fixating on toilet seats, and President Obama reaching for a pun about spilled milk.
I am writing this in response to the January 26th article regarding the closing of Organic Bliss. In Nathan Bomey's recent article on the closing of Organic Bliss, a local environmentally-friendly goods store, the shop owner suggests in not-so-subtle-terms that rising parking costs and plans to increase enforcement hours helped ...
A year or two ago, one would never have expected a headline like this: “Snyder’s budget proposal reflects a return to financial stability for the state.’’ Or like this: “Ann Arbor city budget forecast: Future looks brighter.’’ Local and state officials must feel like they’ve just woken up from a ...
My thoughts about any cell phone use while driving is: What did we do before there were cell phones? We waited till we got to a real telephone whether it was at home, the office or, if really necessary, we would look for a pay phone if we were shopping ...
(This letter to the editor has been revised to remove statements that presumed guilt on the part of the accused.) A University of Michigan pediatric resident has been charged with meeting his sexual needs by viewing child pornography on a hospital computer in the Pediatric Emergency Department.
We should keep the train station in Ann Arbor where it is and reject Fuller Road as a new site. With change comes opportunity. The recent decision by the University of Michigan to pull out of the Fuller Road Station agreement with the City of Ann Arbor offers us a ...
I hope you had a wonderful Valentine's Day and were pleasantly surprised. If however you were unlucky and got a "creepy" Valentine from someone you do not want a relationship with, it is time to deal with it. NOW!
Time magazine recently declared "the protester" as its "Person of the Year" for 2011, citing worldwide protests including the Occupy Wall Street movement. But the modern movement has nothing over the 1960s and '70s in Ann Arbor, Robert Faber says.
Gov. Rick Snyder demonstrated his leadership style of relentless positive action by stepping out with an infrastructure message last October and then reinforcing it in his January State of the State address, which both called for increased transportation funding. Progress on providing that funding for Michigan is being paved with ...
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