Category Archives: Homes & Real Estate

Weird Wednesday: Stonehenge Reloaded

March 25, 2009 – 7:38 am

The last Wednesday of every month is a “Weird Wednesday” on Absolute Michigan, when we feature offbeat stories from the Great Lakes State. Check out more Weird Wednesdays from Absolute Michigan. Here’s a video feature that we last showed so long ago, it should feel new to just about everyone! Thanks Jim for the reminder… [...]

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Photo Friday: it starts tiny, it starts slow by caterpillars

March 20, 2009 – 9:21 am

caterpillars (Laura) has a degree in anthropology and studio arts, many cameras (mostly film) and a yard full of lionhead rabbits. She will also totally shoot your wedding, event, or portrait, so contact her. Check out her Michigan slideshow. Her photo sets include metro-detroit, MCS and SuperSampler you may just want to dive into her [...]

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Photo Friday: With St. Anne, Church People by fotek

March 13, 2009 – 9:31 am

fotek is working on a great set of Photomatix HDR photos of St. Anne’s Church in Detroit (slideshow). He says that it’s such a beautiful church that pictures will never do it justice, but I think he may be wrong. Some of his other sets include Detroit and Mt. Clemens and you should check out [...]

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When Ice Attacks: Saginaw Bay homes damaged

March 12, 2009 – 8:10 am

Embedded video from CNN Video Weird Wednesday already? Nope. Huge piles of ice were pushed by NE winds into homes along Linwood Beach (just north of Bay City), forcing evacuations and causing damage. Linwood Beach residents return to find ice piled around, inside and atop their homes from the Bay City Times begins: “I was [...]

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Introduce your Michigan Business or Organization

January 10, 2009 – 3:10 pm

snowy field by PepOmint Here’s a page where you can say “hello” and tell everyone a little bit about your Michigan business, nonprofit, community organization, or other web site or blog. Feel free to add a comment below and definitely include a link to your web site! If you already introduced your business on Volume [...]

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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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Forward-Thinking Monday

October 27, 2008 – 12:54 pm

the creative big three by vanessamiller (John Howkins, Charles Landry & Richard Florida) We’ll lead off with a quick plug for an upcoming conference and a look back at one from the recent past. The Conference on Michigan’s Future takes place in a few weeks (Nov 14-16) at Crystal Mountain with a focus on peak [...]

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Change a Light, Change Michigan

October 1, 2008 – 1:59 pm

Changing your incandescent light bulbs to compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) can do all that. Starting October 1st these light bulbs will be available at an unbeatable price: 99 cents at participating Meijer, Kroger, and Menard’s stores, as well as seven Lansing-area and three Upper Peninsula Ace Hardware stores. At that price, these bulbs are [...]

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Riding the Green Wave in Michigan

September 25, 2008 – 8:28 am

ReEvolving to Green by mdprovost It seems as if there’s a wave building, one that could help to float Michigan out of our long economic doldrums. All across the state, businesses that leverage wind, sun and alternative energy are starting or expanding. Adding to the momentum is a recently approved Renewable Energy Package that raises [...]

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Photo Friday: and she began to understand what life in the country was all about. by riot jane

September 5, 2008 – 7:58 am

Bethany (riot jane) says she’s a vegetarian, romantic, explorer, singer, voyager, wonderer, crossword puzzler extraordinaire and young at heart. She’s also a talented photographer and photo processor, bringing a unique view of life in rural Michigan through photo sets like love is a river raisin battlefield, maybee, michigan and her great photos of her favorite [...]

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