Category Archives: Five Things You Need to Know

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. It has [...]

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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 network called [...]

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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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Five things you need to know for Tuesday, November 27, 2007

November 27, 2007 – 10:09 am

They said it: Dana Johnson, chief economist for used-to-be-Detroit-based Comerica Bank in forecasting modest 1-2% growth for Michigan's economy in 2008. We'll finally have the sense, after four years of a downturn, we're on a rise again. Roy Williams, on the I don't want it, you take it NFC playoff race: Yeah, we’re in this [...]

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Five things you need to know for Wednesday, November 14, 2007

November 14, 2007 – 11:20 am

Downtown, down the hatch, downriver, downstream - I'm sensing some kind of a theme here...

Quicken Chooses Detroit Yesterday's Detroit News reported that Quicken Loans has chosen to move its headquarters to Detroit:
The move, pending yearlong studies of the former Hudson's site on Woodward and vacant Statler Hotel site, would consolidate at least 4,000 employees in [...]

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Five Things You Need to Know for Tuesday, November 6 2007

November 6, 2007 – 7:35 am

It's an off-year Election Day edition of Five Things You Need to Know about Michigan. Despite the lack of big name offices to decide, there's a lot of the nuts and bolts decisions to make about schools and local government. The Secretary of State reminds you to bring your photo ID to the polls for [...]

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Five things you need to know for Thursday, October 18, 2007

October 18, 2007 – 10:24 am

Welcome to the "We don't need costumes to scare you, we're politicians" edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan.
Legislation to Repeal Service Tax Introduced
The Freep reports that although the ink is barely dry on the package that averted a governmental shutdown, legislation was introduced yesterday in the Senate to repeal a key [...]

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