Category Archives: Area Information

Ride the Luge in Muskegon

February 9, 2009 – 12:11 pm

Byron Goggin of Wild Weekend TV has a cool feature from one of only 3 Olympic class luge complexes in the United States. It’s in Muskegon and open to the public – check it out! Here’s a link to part two of the program. More about the Luge run at the Muskegon Winter Sports Complex [...]

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2009 Michigan Anniversaries

January 8, 2009 – 7:52 am

Dianna Stampfler of Promote Michigan sent us this cool list of Michigan Anniversaries for 2009. Know any that we’re missing? We’d be amazed if you didn’t – post them in the comments! Chelsea by jhoweaa City of Chelsea – An upcoming event to plan for is the celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Founding [...]

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Counting Tuesday: Two states, three cities and a final four

December 16, 2008 – 10:08 am

One of Those Moments by MAGICDUDE PHOTOGRAPHY The New York Times reports that 30 states are looking at running out of funds to pay unemployment compensation in the next few months. Two states have already run out. One is Indiana. One guess as to the other: Michigan, which has been borrowing money from the federal [...]

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Setting the table Thursday: take a bite out of Michigan this fall!

October 23, 2008 – 10:59 am

Allegan Sunset 2 by raddad! Autumn is when Mother Nature packs the boards with a feast for the eyes. AAA Michigan says that the best viewing conditions are being reported in the Southwest and Southeast Lower Peninsula with fair to good fall color conditions are reported in Holland, Jackson, Milford, St. Joseph, Tipton, with color [...]

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Creative Cities: an ecology of hope

October 13, 2008 – 4:24 pm

Hope This is the Fountain of Youth by Cherie S. I came to Detroit for the Creative Cities Summit unprepared, frankly, for the scale of the challenge that Michigan’s largest city is facing. As we toured sights selected to offer hope this morning, I found myself rendered nearly hopeless by incredible magnitude of the challenge [...]

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The Week for October 13 – 19, 2008

October 13, 2008 – 8:13 am

Golden Slumber by baklein62 Welcome to ‘The Week’ for October 13-19. This is where we will be posting comments such as news items, interesting blog posts, cool video and media, coming events, new web sites added to Absolute Michigan and other items of note. We invite you to do the same! After a nice stretch [...]

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Exposure.Detroit … just because

October 8, 2008 – 6:46 pm

The photo is Yes by Amy Palomar, seen (with so many others) in Exposure.Detroit – dive into the Exposure.Detroit Flickriver. Amy says that if she could add music, it would be this. Share this:

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Park(ing) Day webcasting from Grand Rapids

September 18, 2008 – 10:00 am

Tomorrow (Friday, September 19) is National Park-ing Day. In this video about Parking Day in Grand Rapids, Andy Dragt says he’ll be broadcasting live via internet (Twitter/andydragt.com)/Rapid Growth) tomorrow. A Trap is Set by Rudy Malmquist From RGTV: Park(ing) Day on Rapid Growth: Leaders of the Green Grand Rapids initiative are spearheading West Michigan’s first [...]

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The Week for September 15-21, 2008

September 15, 2008 – 5:52 pm

Rain or Shine (since 1922) by paulh192 Welcome to a special Monday evening edition of The Week on Absolute Michigan. While the stock market falls, folks on Mackinac Island are getting ready for the Festival of the Falling Leaves Moon (Sep 18-20) which celebrates the time of year when the trees were told to stay [...]

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Dig Michigan: Flint and the Tri-cities of Bay City, Saginaw & Midland

August 18, 2008 – 10:53 am

Flint/Tri-Cities is the third of Michigan’s regions that we are exploring this month. Our goal with this series of articles is to give you a little taste of some great vacation opportunities that are probably less than a tank of gas away and an idea of what is going on in the region, so if [...]

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