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Groundcover News Covering community news and issues of poverty while providing housing-insecure people with a means to generate income as micro-entrepeneurs.

Yesterday, August 18, we completely sold out of the August 7th edition! 🎉 Congratulations to all Groundcover vendors for...
08/19/2026

Yesterday, August 18, we completely sold out of the August 7th edition! 🎉 Congratulations to all Groundcover vendors for beating our 2026 sales record... with 3 days to spare.

To make sure all vendors can continue business, we ordered the August 21st edition a day early.

We only sold out completely at the Groundcover office — some vendors still have copies to sell to customers like you!
Get the August 7th from a vendor while you still can.

On your way to the Ypsi or Ann Arbor Farmers Market? Going downtown this weekend? Pick up the August 7th edition of Grou...
08/08/2026

On your way to the Ypsi or Ann Arbor Farmers Market? Going downtown this weekend? Pick up the August 7th edition of Groundcover from your local Vendor!

🏠How I beat homelessness … for a time
👸🏽The She Team
📰Local Independent Journalism Summit
🏥Washtenaw Board of Commissioners Aug. 5 recap
📣A new way to speak up
🕊️Freedom of Speech
👂🏻Listening with cultural intelligence
🏚️Policy brief: 2026 bipartisan bill “21st Century ROAD to Housing”
🌊Exploring the Mackinac Triangle of History
⛺️People in the Bell-Kramer Neighborhood: Buddy
🚘How can we all stop buying gas
🌪️Apply for FEMA disaster assistance at AADL Westgate Aug 13-17

Ken Parks, vendor No. 490, is pictured with our new edition and a piece of art from a customer that inspired his essay published this week!

We’re honored to be Peoples Food Co-op Ann Arbor Change for Our Community recipient this August!!!! 🛒🫂🗞️We are so gratef...
08/03/2026

We’re honored to be Peoples Food Co-op Ann Arbor Change for Our Community recipient this August!!!! 🛒🫂🗞️

We are so grateful for PFC staff and customers for partnering this month with us, and always!

Thank you for shopping local, reading local, and rounding 🆙 this month ❤️

In the most recent edition The Confused Cloud writes a powerful essay attempting to address the question, “Why don’t men...
07/30/2026

In the most recent edition The Confused Cloud writes a powerful essay attempting to address the question, “Why don’t mentally ill people just take their medication?” The answer is not as simple as you might think.

In our most recent edition Mike Jones reports on the tentative contract agreement between University of Michigan Profess...
07/28/2026

In our most recent edition Mike Jones reports on the tentative contract agreement between University of Michigan Professional Nurse Council (a local union of the ) and University of Michigan Health.

The evening of July 24, votes were counted and it was announced that UMPNC ratified the three year agreement with 94% approval.

"U of M nurses approved this contract in a landslide because they know it is so good that it sets the standard for the rest of the state," said Kara Ayotte, RN, president of MNA-UMPNC. "We're proud to have negotiated such strong wage increases, better staffing ratios, improved workplace violence protections, and so much more. This contract shows what union nurses can achieve when we stick together and fight for what's best for nurses and patients."

Read the details of their contract wins in our latest edition!

Vendor no. 322 Terri Demar is about to hit the street with a stack of papers!📺I love public television🍋A summer special ...
07/24/2026

Vendor no. 322 Terri Demar is about to hit the street with a stack of papers!
📺I love public television
🍋A summer special at CupsnChai
👋🏻Meet Your Publisher
🇺🇸250 Years: July 4 celebration, reflections of the American revolution and democracy
🇵🇸Inside the case against the ‘Michigan 8:’ Palestine activism recast as antisemitic terror
🏠HUD tries, again, to move federal homelessness funding away from permanent housing
🏢Wastenaw Continuum of Care grapples with federal changes
👩🏾‍⚕️U-M nurses reach tentative contract agreement
My experience with antipsychotic medication
🪞The stranger we despise and the mirror most people want to break
🤕Hit and run accident on Main Street

On Wednesday 26 Groundcover vendors, writers, board members and staff boarded a party bus to drive to Mexicantown on a v...
07/17/2026

On Wednesday 26 Groundcover vendors, writers, board members and staff boarded a party bus to drive to Mexicantown on a very important mission.

We toured the El Central Hispanic News office, heard from Martina Guzman and Robert Dewaelsche about building and sustaining a community newsroom; on training journalists with a focus on race and equity; on preserving heritage, culture, and democracy with bilingual reporting and publishing.

Then, two blocks down, we enjoyed lunch and conversation at Vamonos! with representatives from Planet Detroit, Eastern Michigan College of Journalism, Bridge Detroit and El Central.

Thank you to the Washtenaw Board of Commissioners and staff for funding this inspiring gathering!

07/14/2026

Extended cooling hours through Wednesday night! The Towner Human Services Building atrium (555 Towner, Ypsilanti) will offer evening cooling hours Tuesday, July 14th and Wednesday, July 15th. The atrium will be open from 8:30am to 8pm, and during this time, users can sit down, cool off, and hydrate. To access the space, use the North Entrance off Corner Street near the courtyard and playground.
If the heat advisory is extended through Thursday, July 16th, Towner will open as a cooling center. Continue to check the Washtenaw County Office of Community and Economic Development’s website for updates. In addition, the following county buildings are designated as cooling sites through 8:30am – 5:00pm:  Learning Resource Center 4135 Washtenaw Ave, Ann Arbor  Administration Building 200 N Main St, Ann Arbor

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