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John Counts
Verified
News Leader, Ann Arbor News
Michigan
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Biography
John Counts is the investigations editor for MLive. He got his start at weeklies in suburban Detroit before becoming a crime reporter in Northern Michigan. He came to Ann Arbor in 2012 to cover the police and court beat in Washtenaw County. His reporting on a scandal involving a district court judge prompted the judge to step down from the bench. He has also investigated drug thefts at local hospitals and how mentally ill defendants aren't getting speedy trials. Counts has won numerous state and national awards over the years, including for his work covering the Flint water crisis. He was an editor at The Flint Journal and The Ann Arbor News prior to heading up the investigative reporting team at MLive. He has a bachelor's degree in English from Wayne State University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago. He's published fiction and essays in a variety of publications and literary journals over the years. His debut short story collection, "Bear County, Michigan," will be published by Northwestern University Press in 2025. He can be reached at johncounts@mlive.com.
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By John Counts Verified| Substack@ In our backyard, here on the rural outskirts of Detroit, we have a little white house – a playhouse, but a little more advanced. We call it The Little House. It was built by my father-in-law’s father back in the ‘50s or ‘60s. He was one of those guys who could build anything, kind of like my father-in-law. I was never one of those guys. The only thing I could ever build were songs, stories and, recently, a book – Bear County, Michigan.
Assessment of undiscovered conventional and continuous oil and gas resources in the Escondido, Olmos, and San Miguel Formations of the Western Gulf Basin Province, U.S. Gulf Coast region, 2023
By William H. Craddock, John Counts Verified, Colin Doolan, Marc L. Buursink| Eyes on Earth@ First posted April 16, 2025 Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated undiscovered, technically recoverable mean resources of 5 million barrels of oil and 25 billion cubic feet of gas in conventional reservoirs and 361 million barrels of oil and 10,978 billion cubic feet of gas in continuous reservoirs in the Western Gulf Basin Province of the U.S. Gulf Coast region.
By John Counts Verified| Substack@ In our backyard, here on the rural outskirts of Detroit, we have a little white house – a playhouse, but a little more advanced. We call it The Little House. It was built by my father-in-law’s father back in the ‘50s or ‘60s. He was one of those guys who could build anything, kind of like my father-in-law. I was never one of those guys. The only thing I could ever build were songs, stories and, recently, a book – Bear County, Michigan.
Company Info
Ann Arbor News
Michigan, United States