Category Archives: The Michigan Pages: Build Michigan!

City Recycling + Film Incentive = Raleigh Michigan Studios

February 8, 2011 – 12:02 pm

On Michigan in Pictures we recently wondered whether the road to Oz will wind through Michigan. Here’s a feature on where the Wizard’s balloon may land in Michigan. Crow’s Nest by Jeff Gaydash Great Lakes Echo has a cool series about City Recycling in the Great Lakes Region that looks at how brownfields and abandoned [...]

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Michigan Radio: The Cost of Creativity

February 1, 2011 – 10:38 am

Michigan Radio has a great radio documentary titled The Cost of Creativity that I really hope you get a chance to check out. They note  that while Michigan was funding arts & culture at a level of $26 million dollars a year through a combination of state taxes and federal money a decade ago, it’s [...]

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2011 Detroit Auto Show

January 13, 2011 – 1:02 pm

Welcome to a special edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan presenting the 2011 Detroit Auto Show. The public show runs January 15-23, 2011 at the Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan. We say Detroit Auto Show, you say..? We’re going to continue to call the 2011 North American International Auto Show the [...]

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Win $2500 in the I Love Michigan Video Contest

December 28, 2010 – 9:22 am

I LOVE Lake Michigan by lorijohernandez The Prima Civitas Foundation is a non-profit economic & community development collaborative that seeks to help the State of Michigan re-invent itself for the 21st century by creating the network that is necessary for local, regional, and state growth in today’s knowledge-based economy. They’re offering a $2500 prize in [...]

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Will “rightsizing” make Detroit strong again?

December 14, 2010 – 10:53 am

Need a new home? Here’s 500 abandoned ones all in the same area by DetroitDerek Photography Once boasting a population of nearly 2 million, the population of the city of Detroit stands at somewhere between 750,000 and 800,000 residents. Detroit Free Press has a good look at Detroit Mayor Dave Bing’s plan to offer incentives [...]

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Will Michigan Harness the Wind?

November 30, 2010 – 7:45 am

Great Lakes Echo is a project of the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan State University. The site uses Creative Commons reporting to to help the news community cover the environment of the Great Lakes watershed. Absolute Michigan supports the mission of Great Lakes Echo and will feature articles they produce. by Liz Pacheco [...]

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Lansing is The Next American City

November 22, 2010 – 8:59 am

Lansing, Michigan, USA by Mario.Q Next American City partnered with IBM and its SmarterCities initiative to encourage citizens across the nation to share how their cities are addressing the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. The prize for the city with the most posts to the SmarterCities Scan was a profile on their website, [...]

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Under the Radar Michigan

October 18, 2010 – 9:22 am

Municipal by Jon DeBoer A show that’s on our radar on is Under the Radar Michigan. In each episode, host Tom Daldin takes you around Michigan to check out the places and talk to the people that are pushing Michigan forward. In this episode, Tom visits Hopcat, Founders Brewery and the B.O.B. in Grand Rapids [...]

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mlive.com to cover the ArtPrize Winners Announcment party

October 7, 2010 – 4:55 pm

Via mlive.com: In a matter of hours, we find out which artist from ArtPrize’s Top 10 walks away $250,000 richer, and winner of ArtPrize 2010, a 19-day event that has transformed Grand Rapids into an art-lover’s paradise. Did you see the splash of coverage on the “Today” show today? How cool. Join us tonight as [...]

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Requiem for Detroit?

October 7, 2010 – 8:15 am

All week on Absolute Michigan we’ve been featuring Detroit. mcs by buckshot.jones David Byrne of Talking Heads fame was in Detroit to perform the title track for This Must Be The Place by Paolo Sorrentino, one of the big budget pictures now filming in Detroit. In his journal entry Don’t Forget the Motor City he [...]

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