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Kathryn Haushalter lives near the future site of a data center in Saline Township. She recently filed a lawsuit to seek intervention in the project.

Data centers in Washtenaw County: Economic boon or environmental liability?

Data center developers and advocates tout their projects as responsible, job-creating economic development engines, but many residents are opposing what they see as threats to their utility bills and the environment.

YCHS Director of Technology Solomon Zheng, YCHS Assistant Superintendent Dr. Carlos Lopez, and YCHS junior Arianna Maldonado.
AI is creating rapid change in Washtenaw County education, from elementary school to higher ed

AI has had transformational effects in education throughout Washtenaw County.

Khalid Mahmood Malik, chief technology officer of the Ann Arbor- and Flint-based AI deepfake detection company ProbeTruth.
AI has transformed Ann Arbor’s tech sector, but what will businesses do if the bubble bursts?

Many in Ann Arbor are working to leverage the community's creativity, academic excellence, and humming tech sector to land on the soft side of AI's economic whirlwind.

A young participant tries out a trumpet at an Ann Arbor Art Center PlayLab session that featured the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra's "Instrument Petting Zoo."
Free art activities available to children and caregivers through Ann Arbor Art Center program

The Ann Arbor Art Center’s PlayLab program is carving out a rare space where children and caregivers can explore creativity together, free of charge.

The Celebration of Girls and Women in Sports in Ypsilanti.
Ypsi event to celebrate women and girls in sports with youth sports clinic, panels, and more

The event will feature an educational panel, a youth sports clinic, and the opportunity to cheer on the Eastern Michigan University Eagles at a basketball game, followed by post-game autographs and photos.

"American Sampler" exhibit curator Julie Ault reviews archival materials from the University of Michigan's Labadie Collection.
American political dissent highlighted in new U-M Museum of Art show

In a new exhibition at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, curator Julie Ault examines “how artists … have registered their politics or social effect in their art.”

Art featured at the fourth annual Black Artist Exhibit at Riverside Arts Center in Ypsilanti.
Black artists spotlighted in annual art show at Ypsi’s Riverside Art Center

Riverside Arts Center, 76 N Huron St. in Ypsilanti, is currently hosting its fourth annual Black Artist Exhibit in cooperation with the African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County.

The Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band.
All-Indigenous big band’s Ann Arbor performance will celebrate history of Native people in jazz

Bandleader Julia Keefe describes her group's mission as "to celebrate the diversity and vitality of Indigenous people in jazz — past, present, and future."

A performance of "Dimanche."
Actors and puppets depict the end of the world in Belgian performance coming to Ann Arbor

"Dimanche" uses puppetry, mime, video, and multiple kinds of theater to tell the everyday story of the end of the world.

Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble.
Detroit music icon Don Was to kick off tour with new Pan-Detroit Ensemble in Ann Arbor

Detroit bassist and producer Don Was will kick off the "Groove in the Face of Adversity" tour with his newest group, the Pan-Detroit Ensemble, on Jan. 9 and 10 at Ann Arbor’s Blue LLama Jazz Club.

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