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 [...]
By farlane
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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 [...]
By farlane
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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 [...]
By farlane
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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 [...]
The High by DA2Brian
From the Silver Lining Department: GROW Detroit called out this Detroit Free Press article (Michigan does good job of preparing kids for college, survey finds) saying that Michigan was cited as one of the three states (along with Kentucky and Indiana) most closely aligning state curriculum with college expectations (view Michigan's [...]
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 [...]
