Community reacts after Ann Arbor school board approves layoffs amid $25M budget deficit
A day after a dramatic school board meeting, many Ann Arbor Public Schools staff members are worrying about their jobs.
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Meredith Bruckner joined CBS News Detroit in May 2023.
Before joining CBS, she was the managing editor and senior producer of All About Ann Arbor by WDIV Local 4 News and ClickOnDetroit. The project was launched in 2017 as a way to provide community-driven, hyper-local reporting to the Ann Arbor area. In her role, she also regularly appeared on "Live in the D" as a co-host and segment lead.
Before joining Local 4 News, Meredith worked for four years as a lead anchor for Israel's premier 24-hour international news channel, i24NEWS. There, she led breaking news coverage and hosted two daily live news and lifestyle shows. During her time at i24NEWS, she extensively covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, led live coverage of terror attacks, wars and military operations, the rise of ISIS in Syria and Iraq, international politics and more. She has interviewed numerous senior-level politicians, military experts and celebrities.
Meredith is originally from Chicago. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Communications from Reichman University in Israel and a Master's Degree in International Broadcast Journalism from the City University of London.
When she's not working, you can find her browsing the Ann Arbor Farmers Market with her husband and three kids - hopefully with no meltdowns.
A day after a dramatic school board meeting, many Ann Arbor Public Schools staff members are worrying about their jobs.
The Just Between Friends Ann Arbor sale takes place twice a year, and parents are welcome to buy, sell or both.
A rare corpse flower is now in bloom in Dexter. The plant gets its name from its pungent smell of rotting flesh, but to its owners, it's known as "Corpsy." It has set the record for the tallest blooming corpse flower in the state of Michigan at 63.5 inches.
An Ann Arbor man who was taken into custody on Wednesday has been charged in connection with two knife attacks in the city.
The initiative took two years to launch, and the recyclable material is taken to a facility in Ohio for processing.
Owner Kevin Hauser of Dexter has named the plant 'Corpsy' and said she's very close to blooming.
For months, he has been peering into the windows of female University of Michigan students.
Emily Eitzman founded the U-M Amputee Soccer Camp after becoming involved with the school's Adaptive Sports Program.
Patients and staff know them by name and greet them as they make their rounds around the hospital.
The 28th annual Prison Creative Arts Project Exhibition is on display at the Duderstadt Gallery on North Campus.
The two-year-old MRF cost more than $7 million to build and is run by the nonprofit Recycle Ann Arbor.
It will be enforced this fall, and sellers who fail to get a HERD report will face a $500 fine.
A district official told CBS News Detroit on Tuesday that notifications of layoffs will begin as early as March 31.
Renters in Ann Arbor are reporting being slammed with excessively high fees to get in line to rent apartments.
Located next to the president's house and steps away from the Diag, thousands of community members walk past it every day without knowing what's behind its doors.