City News
Ann Arbor officials prepare wishlist for stimulus package funds
BY LARA ZADE
After Congress passed its $787 billion stimulus package last month, Ann Arbor City Council members quickly began talking about how some of that money might be used to help the city.
Ann Arbor City Councilmember Leigh Greden (D-Ward 3), who is coordinating the stimulus requests for Ann Arbor’s City Council, said that the city compiled a wish list of shovel-ready public works projects it is hoping the stimulus package will fund.
Bike taxis could come to Ann Arbor
BY LARA ZADE
Imagine a city that provides cabs with three wheels, no doors and two pedals for its busy commuters. Ann Arbor may be that city in the near future.
Barbara Annis, a resident of Ann Arbor’s old west side, is looking to garner support to have a pedicab business open in Ann Arbor.
AATA will require MCard holders to swipe cards through new fare boxes
- (Krista Boyd/Daily)
BY LARA ZADE
The days of quickly flashing your MCard to ride an Ann Arbor bus will soon be gone.
Freshman proposes plan for city to expand its recycling program
BY LARA ZADE
LSA freshman Alex Levine has a plan to give a greener fate to the sea of red plastic cups that layer the city’s streets after every home football game.
Levine is working with the Ann Arbor City Council to enable the city to include polystyrene, or No. 6 plastic — the type of plastic from which those plastic cups are made — in its current recycling code.
Student business seeks to satisfy campus's nutrition needs
- Will Moeller/Daily
BY LINDSAY KRAMER
On a campus with three gyms, tight budgets and a foreboding fear of the freshman 15, two students have found a way to combat these problems — and have turned it into what they hope will be a profitable business venture.
Candy, cards and condoms
- Ariel Bond / Daily
BY ARIEL BOND
Pamphlets, buttons, condoms are candy were available to the public at Sexpertise on the terrace of East Hall last night, January 29th, 2009. (ARIEL BOND/Daily)
City and county officials looking to expand low-income housing
BY LARA ZADE
Washtenaw County and the city of Ann Arbor are teaming up to combat the lack of low-income housing downtown.
New technology provides real-time parking availability
- Rob Migrin/Daily
BY EMILY ORLEY
For those lucky students who have cars in this blistering winter, one of the few major difficulties is finding a parking space near their classroom building. However, this task is usually easier said than done — until now.
Laid-off Chrysler worker opens Ann Arbor shoe boutique
BY LINDY STEVENS
When Tamar Fowler lost her job with Chrysler Corp. after 14 years, she didn’t collect unemployment, leave the state or look for another 9-to-5 job. Fowler instead came to Ann Arbor to do what she had always wanted: open her own business.
Local Arts
School of Music, Theatre & Dance to weave plot and dance in lighthearted 'Crazy for You'
BY REBECCA GODWIN
Choices play an important part in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance’s upcoming production of “Crazy for You,” directed by Associate Professor of Musical Theatre Linda Goodrich and opening on Thursday.
Bobby McFerrin to bring latest vocally indulgent endeavor to University Music Society
BY SHAMIK GANGULY
On Thursday, Bobby McFerrin comes to Hill Auditorium to present his latest project, “spirityouall.” This new endeavor of McFerrin’s seeks to pay homage to African American spirituals and to his father, an operatic baritone who was himself a dedicated performer of these traditional songs.
Ann Arbor-based website MyFab5 uses new ranking system to judge restaurants
BY TYLER BAILEY
The website, created by Engineering junior Nick Ruff and University alumni Omeid Seirafi-pour, Calvin Schemanski and John Gulbronson, utilizes an exclusive restaurant ranking system instead of the typical star rating system used by other similar sites.
- Courtesy of Vincent Peone/CollegeHumor.com
CollegeHumor duo talk comedy, Ann Arbor in advance of live show
BY STEVEN TWEEDIE
As to what the offline version of their show will contain Friday, expect the usual hilarious content of any CollegeHumor production, with a few surprises.
Local teens pick literary favorites for the Best American Nonrequired Reading anthology
BY JOEY STEINBERGER
The texts for the Best American Nonrequired Reading anthology are chosen annually by two groups of high school students, one from Valencia California and the other from Ann Arbor.
