Category Archives: Newspapers

Canadian Freeze Ray wreaks havok on Michigan

April 1, 2008 – 8:37 am

Residents of the Straits area were stunned Sunday afternoon when the Mackinac Bridge was mysteriously encased in huge blocks of ice, rendering it totally impassible. While proponents for the 51st State of Superior seized upon the event to renew calls for U.P. secession, most folks on either side of the Mighty Mac were wondering if [...]

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The Week for March 31 - April 6, 2008

March 31, 2008 – 7:53 pm

lil white flower by artsy T
OK, it's spring now. Thanks for the great memories, Winter, see you in 8 months or so. As usual, The Week is the place to post comments on what's popping up in your garden or in the Michigan news. You can complain about the weather too if Winter decides not [...]

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Weird Wednesday: Michigan UFO Sightings

March 26, 2008 – 7:39 am

Michigan is full of UFO's, from numerous sightings over Lake Superior (especially around Saulte Ste. Marie) to the tale of a radio announcer who observed one over the freeway near the Detroit airport in 1978, so close that the radio host, Marc Avery, described it as "looking up into the belly of a craft." [...]

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The Week for March 24-30, 2008

March 24, 2008 – 8:55 am

Sandhill Cranes 1 by C.A. Mullhaupt
We're in the first full week of spring, which of course means that there's big piles of snow on the ground and even the Easter Bunny is feeling the cold. CA says that sandhill cranes are migrating back through Michigan in mid-March and that she captured this pair was at [...]

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The Week for March 17-23, 2008

March 17, 2008 – 12:01 pm

Detroit Night Walk 03/14/2008 by army71rich
Welcome to another installment of The Week - our place for comments and links to news from the week, interesting blog posts, cool video and media, coming events, new web sites added to Absolute Michigan.
According to our Michigan March Event Calendar, events tap this week around Michigan include ArtServe Michigan's [...]

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The Week for March 10-16, 2008

March 10, 2008 – 6:46 am

Rusty Old Boat by ~Jetta Girl~
The Week is a place for comments and links to news from the week, interesting blog posts, cool video and media, coming events, new web sites added to Absolute Michigan and other stuff you find on these Michigan internets. A big thing that happened this week was the addition of [...]

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The Week for March 3-9, 2008

March 3, 2008 – 10:55 am

We're going to use the week to post comments with news from the week, interesting blog posts, cool video and media, coming events, new web sites added to Absolute Michigan and other items of note.
We invite you to do the same!
The photo is Conservatory No. 7 by rckrawczykjr ... and I'm pretty sure that Professor [...]

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The Detroit Free Press gets a(nother) makeover

February 20, 2008 – 8:26 am

A little less than a year after its last re-tooling, the Detroit Free Press aka the Freep aka Freep.com has once again rolled out a major upgrade.
In addition to bringing more stories, columns and blogs to the homepage, they have also added a "You at Freep.com" section that allows you to start your own blog, [...]

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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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The Eleven Seconds to Midnight Gang rides again

November 30, 2007 – 9:08 am

Carousel by jnhkrawczyk
"We've got a shift starting in 36 hours that we've got to charge 6% more on ... and I don't know how to do it."
-John Evans, president of Evans Distribution
Welcome to Michigan, where we somehow seem to be stuck in the Reality TV version of Groundhog Day: Your Government inAction. With just hours [...]

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