Category Archives: Five Things You Need to Know

Five Things You Need to Know Heatwave Edition: Beat the Heat in Michigan

July 20, 2011 – 9:52 am

Before we suggest a few ways to beat the heat, we’ll set the mood with Motown’s own Martha Reeves & the Vandellas who started at the Motown office in Detroit as William Stevenson’s secretary and was also charged with supervising Stevie Wonder during office hours and singing occasional backing vocals. Berry Gordy was impressed with her [...]

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Five Things You Need to Know About Michigan Morel Mushrooms

May 4, 2011 – 11:55 am

May is Morel Season in Michigan. It’s just getting underway so we thought it an excellent time to give you 5 things about Michigan morels! The Elusive Black Morel by cedarkayak 1. Morechella, true morels, are a honeycomb-like mushroom that  are prized by chefs the world over. The Great Morel Homepage can take you a [...]

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2011 Detroit Auto Show

January 13, 2011 – 1:02 pm

Welcome to a special edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan presenting the 2011 Detroit Auto Show. The public show runs January 15-23, 2011 at the Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan. We say Detroit Auto Show, you say..? We’re going to continue to call the 2011 North American International Auto Show the [...]

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Five Things you need to know about Michigan: Extreme Economy Edition

March 4, 2009 – 10:50 am

Face Plant by by Rudy Malmquist We try to be as positive as possible, but I do hope that everyone (and yes, I’m looking at you elected officials) is preparing to need to do extraordinary things to keep our state and the people in it afloat. 1. Jack Lessenberry spoke with Ismael Ahmed, director of [...]

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Five things you need to know for Thursday, March 27, 2008

March 27, 2008 – 9:47 am

Welcome to a special Michigan Homes & Real Estate edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan. Before I dive in I wanted to say a little something about our month themes. We got the word that a) you like them but b) you would like them to be not so loud so [...]

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Detroit Tigers Spring Training 2008

February 19, 2008 – 12:01 pm

Welcome to a special Detroit Tigers Spring Training edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan where we pucker up for a platefull of Grapefruit League goodness! Spring Training with the Detroit Tigers Last year on Absolute Michigan we compiled what probably remains the definitive resource on the Detroit Tigers and spring training. [...]

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Five things you need to know for Tuesday, February 5, 2007

February 5, 2008 – 11:27 am

Welcome to a Super Fat Pazcki Tuesday edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan. We’ve been meaning to share the video of Gov. Granholm’s 2008 State of the State speech, which probably ranks near the top in the “Getting People Who Don’t Want to Stand Up and Applaud to Stand Up and [...]

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Five things you need to know for Tuesday, January 29, 2008

January 29, 2008 – 9:16 am

Welcome to the Michigan Goes Global edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan where we try and see how Michigan and Michiganians have fared on the wider stage over the last week or so. Somehow we didn’t have room to fully explore Grand Rapids’ title as the new Bingo Capitol of the [...]

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Five things you need to know for Tuesday, December 11, 2007

December 11, 2007 – 11:59 am

The Kalamazoo Gazette notes that while our state’s leaders pay lip-service to protecting our environment and many plans call for re-development that leverages our amazing natural assets, we are almost at the bottom of US states in spending to protect & enhance them. Great Lakes Town Hall turns two In December 2005, an online social [...]

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Five Things you need to know for Tuesday, December 4, 2007

December 4, 2007 – 10:18 am

Welcome to the “Big Tuesday” edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan (sequel to our critically acclaimed Big Wednesday edition). For us, some big news was the fact that the Nick of Time Gang in Lansing managed to replace the service tax with something a lot fairer and more sensible. AP writer [...]

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