Category Archives: Wedding & Event Services

Take a ride with The Night Move

February 3, 2011 – 1:51 pm

A couple of years ago I met Chris Ramos who started The Night Move in metro Detroit. Tom Hendrickson of metromode put together this great piece on Chris’s carbon-neutral transit company that runs to private shuttles for corporate conferences, tours, major concerts & events and a 6 PM to 3 AM loop every Friday & [...]

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Photo Friday: it starts tiny, it starts slow by caterpillars

March 20, 2009 – 9:21 am

caterpillars (Laura) has a degree in anthropology and studio arts, many cameras (mostly film) and a yard full of lionhead rabbits. She will also totally shoot your wedding, event, or portrait, so contact her. Check out her Michigan slideshow. Her photo sets include metro-detroit, MCS and SuperSampler you may just want to dive into her [...]

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2008 Detroit Auto Show

January 8, 2008 – 9:10 am

Welcome to a special edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan presenting the 2008 Detroit Auto Show, held January 19 – 27, 2008 at the Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan. We say Detroit Auto Show, you say..? We’re going to continue to call the 2008 North American International Auto Show the “Detroit [...]

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Service Tax repeal appears certain

December 1, 2007 – 12:49 pm

Capitol, Landing MI by Irina Vasiliu Below you’ll find a news release from Governor Granholm regarding an agreement to add a 21.9% surcharge to the new Michigan Business Tax to replace the 6% Michigan Service Tax. The Detroit Free Press and Detroit News have details on the agreement as well. Share this:

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The Eleven Seconds to Midnight Gang rides again

November 30, 2007 – 9:08 am

Carousel by jnhkrawczyk “We’ve got a shift starting in 36 hours that we’ve got to charge 6% more on … and I don’t know how to do it.” -John Evans, president of Evans Distribution Welcome to Michigan, where we somehow seem to be stuck in the Reality TV version of Groundhog Day: Your Government inAction. [...]

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6% of x? Untangling Michigan’s Service Tax

October 11, 2007 – 9:08 am

Half Staff by Apocaplops UPDATE Oct 25: Carol of ArborLaw.com writes: I actually have the entire list of services descriptions covered by the law, on my blog at Arborlaw.com. When the law came out, I cross-referenced the NAICS codes (which are incorporated into the new law specifically by reference) with the section numbers from the [...]

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Shutdown averted … by a service tax

October 1, 2007 – 10:27 am

An appeal to reason by Apocaplops StateGate seems like it might be nearing its conclusion with an 13th hour deal reached at 4 AM when legislators were apparently too tired to fight anymore. The LSJ reports: “This budget agreement is the right solution for Michigan,” Gov. Jennifer Granholm said in a news release after the [...]

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Michigan Valentine’s Day – How Sweet it Is!

February 13, 2007 – 9:46 am

If you’re looking for something unique for your sweetie this year for Valentine’s Day, Dianna Stampfler of Promote Michigan has 14 gift ideas and activities to consider. As usual, we’d love it if you’d add any other suggestions in the comments! Share this:

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Vol I, No. 1: Introduce Your Michigan Business or Organization!

January 25, 2007 – 9:16 pm

This is a page where we asked folks to say hello. Lots of them did! The current version of Introduce Your Michigan Business or Organization is right there. Share this:

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Michigan History: St. Joseph – Wedding Capital, U.S.A.

January 25, 2007 – 8:41 am

fountain in the woods by catzinahat Las Vegas boasts that it is America’s “wedding capital.” Yet, in the early years of the twentieth century, Michigan, especially the Lake Michigan town of St. Joseph, was the “wedding capital of the Midwest.” Michigan marriage laws did not require residency, allowed people to marry at the age of [...]

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