Need For Speed

Robert West, Ann Arbor's senior assistant city attorney, left, confers with City Attorney Stephen Postema before Monday's Ann Arbor City Council meeting. On the advice of the city attorney's office, the council gave preliminary approval to move forward with ordinance changes that will make the city's speed limits more defensible in court. West acknowledged it also likely will result in raising speed limits on certain roads where motorists have complained for years about speed traps. Read the story here.