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A record-high 10,500-plus trips were clocked along one small stretch of one downtown Ann Arbor bikeway during the month of July, new data shows.

An online dashboard for the Division Street bikeway just south of Catherine Street shows rider counts there have gone up from 8,681 in May to 10,138 in June, and now 10,502 for July.

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When the South Main Market was demolished seven years ago, many Ann Arbor residents mourned the loss of a popular neighborhood retail strip.

The developer redeveloping the South Main Street site vowed to replace what was lost with new retail spaces on the ground floor of an upscale apartment building rising six stories.

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Months-long construction delays have left would-be tenants of a new Ann Arbor apartment development in limbo and searching for alternative housing arrangements.

The 286-unit, phase-two building of the Beekman on Broadway project off Broadway Street and Maiden Lane — just down the street from Michigan Medicine and the University of Michigan medical campus — was supposed to begin welcoming tenants before the start of the new school year Aug. 28.

Clean energy should not be treated like a privilege.

Michigan is making impressive strides toward building a clean energy future. Legislators have introduced proposals to cut pollution and grow the economy by investing in 100 percent, carbon-free electricity by 2035. These proposals deserve our full support because they also do something that utilities and policymakers traditionally neglected: help ensure that underserved, under-represented communities also enjoy the benefits of a clean energy future.

What does this mean?

It means that lower-income households and communities of color have access to solar energy resources.

ANN ARBOR, MI — After enduring another days-long power outage, at least the second of the year for many, Ann Arbor residents aired frustrations at an emergency town hall Sunday.

“One thing I’ve discovered in talking to people here is that people from Ann Arbor don’t realize that how often these outages happen is unusual,” said Ann Arbor resident Kieran Hawthorne, who said she grew up in New England and never experienced outages like this until she came to southeast Michigan.

“This does not happen anywhere else,” she said, adding she can count on one hand the number of outages she experienced in 20 years living in New England and can’t recall a time when the power was out there for more than 24 hours.

“We had a hurricane, the power did not go out,” she said. “I think the first step to making a change is recognizing that what’s happening is not OK and it’s not normal.”

Ann Arbor real estate management company Oxford Companies recently announced a new initiative to use all electric landscaping equipment on all of Oxford's commercial properties by 2025. Oxford will partner with Saline landscaping company A&H Lawn Services to invest in equipment serving one-third of Oxford's commercial portfolio this year, another third next year, and the final third in 2025.

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• In a settlement announced Wednesday, DTE Energy has agreed to stop using coal-fired power by 2032
• That’s three years earlier than previously planned
• It still doesn’t align with a state goal to ditch coal by 2030.