September 13, 2007 – 7:24 am
Rocks off Pyramid Point by Matt Callow
In Bishop's Pawns in the Metro Times, columnist Jack Lessenberry warns that Michigan is heading for a smashup of titanic proportions that will have a huge and devastating effect on your quality of life. Unlike the Federal government, who can pass debt along to taxpayers yet unborn, Michigan is [...]
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September 10, 2007 – 8:50 am
Summer Night in Old Town by sabatoa
The Model D empire continues its inexorable march to talk about what's going right in Michigan cities with Lansing Area Capital Gains. The first issue includes a feature by managing editor Brad Garmon on the resurgence of Michigan's Capital City that begins:
It doesn't take an urban planner or a [...]
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August 21, 2007 – 9:52 am
Jason Piasecki's Inside Muskegon podcast - #86 - where does the time go? - features a great interview with Brenda Moore with Clay Avenue Cellars. In addition to profiling a cool winery/gallery in Muskegon, Michigan, the podcast provides a look at an optimistic entrepreneur who took a risk that paid off.
Regarding the building, the Clay [...]
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August 20, 2007 – 7:41 am
For Sale by John Baird
Celeste Whiting's Our Michigan is a blog that takes a probing look at hard to comprehend mega-issues like the global financial upheaval, simplifies them, and then explores how they relate to life right here in Michigan. Celeste takes that same skill of simplification and applies it to Michigan's political blogosphere.
Speaking [...]
I have to say that as a web developer, I really admire the dynamic ways in which the web team at the Detroit News presents complex information. A great example of this is their interactive teacher pension costs presentation. It makes it point and click simple to see how retirement costs are looming for Michigan's [...]
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Morning Light by curlyson
The Detroit Free Press (At last, state has business tax deal), mLive (Finally -- agreement on biz tax) and the Lansing State Journal (Business leaders welcome tax plan) report that Gov. Granholm and leaders of the House and Senate have finally come to a deal to replace the expiring Single Business Tax [...]
Porch of the Grand Hotel by FrancescaM
From the Grand Hotel at the annual Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce Mackinac Policy Conference (via their "Fresh Thoughts" email), the Center for Michigan gauges the mood of the attendees:
GENERAL DISDAIN FOR LANSING: Last year, the buzz on the Grand porch was all about the need to get rid [...]
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Freaky Capitol by Andy McFarlane
One of the things in the Center for Michigan's weekly email last Friday was a link to Model D's interview with Freakonomics co-author Steven Levitt following his talk at Wayne State University.
When we talk about Michigan's economy you hear a lot of terms like one-state recession. There are a lot of [...]
April 27, 2007 – 10:23 am
SPECIAL FROM THE MICHIGAN LAND USE INSTITUTE
Katie Brandt and Anna Hoekstra combined their own
savings with matching federal funds to expand their
successful, seven-acre farm in Van Buren County
Soon after Katie Brandt graduated from the University of Michigan, in 2001, she landed her dream job—working as a hired farmhand. Even though she earned a minimal wage, Ms. [...]
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Pile Up by Turtle Creek by The Rocketeer"
WOOD-TV reports that Senate Republicans on Thursday passed a $34-per-student cut for schools, then voted for hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts to local governments, community corrections, health care, arts funding and other programs.
"Today we resolved the budget like we wanted to and we killed for good [...]
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