September 17, 2007 – 9:43 am
Untitled by emjsmith
The West Michigan Whitecaps of Grand Rapids, a Class A affiliate of the Detroit Tigers, are the first team to repeat as Midwest League champions in 23 years after an 11-5 victory at Beloit in game five of the Midwest League Championship Series on Saturday. It is the third title in [...]
August 29, 2007 – 8:03 am
In Kiters Defend Access, IPR News Radio notes that although the Michigan Supreme Court says anyone can walk along the beaches of the Great Lakes below the ordinary high water mark, landowners often take issue with kiteboarders setting up.
Photo: Smile as big as the kite by Andy McFarlane
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August 21, 2007 – 9:52 am
Jason Piasecki's Inside Muskegon podcast - #86 - where does the time go? - features a great interview with Brenda Moore with Clay Avenue Cellars. In addition to profiling a cool winery/gallery in Muskegon, Michigan, the podcast provides a look at an optimistic entrepreneur who took a risk that paid off.
Regarding the building, the Clay [...]
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August 15, 2007 – 8:05 am
Holga: Grand Traverse Bay by Matt Callow
Interlochen Public Radio's Tom Kramer has a fascinating interview with underwater archaeologist Dr. Mark Holley. While surveying shipwrecks, Holley may have stumbled upon one of the most significant finds in recent Michigan memory - a discovery that could shed light on a time period known as "the black hole [...]
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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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Hole by tgrabb
(old kiln stack at Fayette)
Michigan Radio's Jack Lessenberry interviewed political consultant Bill Rustem about what to expect when the Michigan legislature returns from a vacation to address a $2,000,000,000 deficit (that's $2 billion with a big B). It was his Budget Woes essay that grabbed my attention, however:
Now, it is time to [...]
We interrupt this blog to let you know that we stand with the many internet radio stations that will observe a national Day of Silence today. Royalty rates for webcasters have been drastically increased by a recent ruling and are due to go into effect on July 15, 2007 (retroactive to Jan 1, 2006 - [...]
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The Midwest Regional Finals of the United States Adult Soccer Association's national cups competition will be held this weekend (June 14-17) in the St. Joseph area. (Check Absolute Michigan listings for St. Joseph & Stevensville for travel info)
The three-day competition over Father’s Day weekend is a part of the nearly 100-year-old National Cups competition. The [...]
Interlochen Public Radio's Peter Payette reports that the state of Michigan and lighthouse preservation community have been wrangling for years over the terms for taking abandoned offshore lighthouses from the Coast Guard and preserving them.
Peter visits the DeTour Reef Light (between Drummond Island and the mainland at the mouth of the St. Mary's River) to [...]
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April 25, 2007 – 10:43 am
Whither Michigan's Future? by Andrew McFarlane
It's been a while since we last looked in on what Michigan's elected officials have been up to. Unfortunately for all of us, the answer is "Not much."
Recently Michigan Radio's Jack Lessenberry interviewed Jim Weimken, the primary financial analyst for the state of Michigan at Standard and Poor, about Michigan's [...]
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