September 11, 2007 – 8:31 am
Why anyone would want to govern Michigan is a wonder. The state has deep-seated economic problems, and it is riven by inter-and intraparty bitterness of a sort to make any Governor look bad...
Thus begins a 1962 feature from TIME Magazine titled The Crazy Quilt that The Center for Michigan called out in their last email. [...]
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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September 3, 2007 – 8:18 am
This photo of the Wings of Victory float in the 1942 Detroit Labor Day Parade is just one of a number from the Library of Congress.
More on Labor Day in Michigan over at Michigan in Pictures.
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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 [...]
Michigan Radio's Jack Lessenberry interviews Thomas Anderson, vice-president and the senior director of Automation Alley about how the Southeast Michigan based organization is working to help businesses in the City of Detroit and Genesee, Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, St. Clair, Washtenaw and Wayne counties meet a changing business environment. In a manner common to Jack's [...]
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Been a while since I got the old 5 out of the bag.
Great Lakes Blogger Dave Dempsey gets a stand-up double with this stunning satellite view of the Great Lakes, of which NASA says:
At the very top of the image is a round white patch - this is Lake Nipigon, which is still frozen over. [...]
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school's out by Mark O'Brien
Schools are big businesses, multi-million dollar employers that spend a good part of every dollar they receive providing jobs in nearly every community in the state of Michigan.
If we crash these businesses - especially immediately prior to what already looks like a shaky summer travel season - we could find ourselves [...]
Bridge by Kathy
The Center for Michigan sends a weekly email newsletter that takes a look at Michigan's problems AND potential solutions from a perspective that is neither Republican nor Democrat - ie. the approach that will probably be required to get our partisanly polarized political process back on the rails.
Rather than weigh you down with [...]
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We may need to rename our blog "Dig Michigan as Dug by GROW Detroit". They tipped us off to something that most media in the state seems to be ignoring: approval by the state House labor committee to call on the U.S. Congress to create a "Marshall Plan" for the auto industry. Democrat Fred Miller [...]
