Category Archives: Five Things You Need to Know

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Five things you need to know for Wednesday, October 10, 2007

October 10, 2007 – 8:06 am

Welcome to a special “Big Wednesday” edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan. Big Surf in Grand Haven The Grand Haven Tribune has a feature on meteorologist Will Beaton, who has realized his life-long dream of surfing and reporting weather at the new web site surfgrandhaven.com developed by Masana, LLC of Grand [...]

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Five things you need to know for Tuesday, October 2, 2007

October 2, 2007 – 9:40 am

Between waiting for the shoes to drop from Lansing, trying to figure out if web site building is going to be taxed under the new service tax and buffing up Absolute Michigan, it’s been a busy few days! Be sure to check out home page look and Word of the Week (if you have suggestions [...]

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Five things you need to know for Thursday, September 20, 2007

September 20, 2007 – 9:20 am

It’s been 2 months since our last Five Things you need to know about Michigan posting. I’m tempted to say that there was nothing you needed to know over that period, but the truth is we were busy working and trying to enjoy all the summer fun Michigan has to offer! (not) Getting the job [...]

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Five things you need to know for Monday, July 23, 2007

July 23, 2007 – 10:05 am

Extreme view of the auto industry NPR had an interesting interview with Peter DeLorenzo of Autoextremist.com. Autoextremist is a site that purports to offer “the bare-knuckled, unvarnished, high-octane truth” about the challenges facing Detroit’s auto industry. DeLorenzo is an auto industry consultant, and if you want octane-rich bare-knucklery with a minimum of varnish, look no [...]

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Five Things you need to know for Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

July 11, 2007 – 10:08 am

I really hope you get a chance to check out yesterday’s Michigan Surfing feature. Quite a few cool videos and another shining example (based on reader comments) that Michigan is often more than people believe it to be. Shhh. Proposed Grayling Amusement Park a Secret? The MLUI has done some digging on Grayling’s proposed Main [...]

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Five Things you need to know for Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

July 3, 2007 – 9:54 am

Watch Michael Moore’s Sicko online, birdwatch (or apartment hunt) in Detroit’s Brush Park, follow the growing Michigan wine industry with a new blog and head over to Fremont, Michigan – baby food capital of the world!

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