Category Archives: Five Things You Need to Know

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 Haven. The [...]

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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 done

Countdown [...]

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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 [...]

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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 Street America [...]

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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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Five Things you need to know about Michigan for Wednesday, June 27, 2007

June 27, 2007 – 9:58 am

Vacation Time?
There's an interesting speech by Sen. Mark Schauer (D-Battle Creek) wondering if now is a good time for members of the Senate to take a summer recess, pointing out (quite rightly) that schools, local government and others are waiting for hard numbers for the upcoming budget year. To see it, go to the Michigan [...]

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Five things you need to know about Michigan for Monday, June 25, 2007

June 25, 2007 – 8:43 am

Welcome to our special "Geez are we worried about the Great Lakes" edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan...
Crown jewel of North America?
Ontario's Premier Dalton McGuinty says that the Great Lakes are a tremendous resource, it is something that people around the world recognize as being a kind of crown jewel of [...]

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Five Things you need to know about Michigan for Thursday, June 21, 2007

June 21, 2007 – 8:52 am

OK Michigan, I have to level with you. I love to find five things about Michigan to tell you. I remember days like Tuesday, July 25, 2006 and ... well ... the day before yesterday and I can't see how I can avoid doing Five Things.
Every day can be overwhelming though, so I'll just do [...]

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June 19, 2007: Baseball, birds, biking, Bad Axe … and pensions

June 19, 2007 – 8:41 am

I have to say that as a web developer, I really admire the dynamic ways in which the web team at the Detroit News presents complex information. A great example of this is their interactive teacher pension costs presentation. It makes it point and click simple to see how retirement costs are looming for Michigan's [...]

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