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Grand Rapids Speeds Up Progress with Streetcars

February 26, 2007 – 10:07 am

Bring Back Rail Transit by B. Rizzo As Grand Rapids enjoys a bit of an economic boom, the city is looking to continue to grow and attract by revitalizing the face of public transportation, with streetcars. Andy Guy of the Michigan Land Use Institute explains in his recent article Agency Endorses Grand Rapids Streetcar. Emboldened [...]

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Tap Some Michigan Fun with the Winter Beer Festival

February 21, 2007 – 9:43 am

Winter Beer Festival Mock Winter. Celebrate Beer! The Michigan Brewers Guild is holding their second annual Michigan Winter Beer Festival, an outdoor celebration of barrel-aged, cask and big beers from Michigan’s craft brewers on the streets of Old Town this Saturday, February 24th from noon to 5 PM. It’s a chance to sample over 150 [...]

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East Lansing Children’s Film Festival

February 16, 2007 – 9:32 am

Autumn toss by paulhitz If you’re in the Mid-Michigan area Feb. 23rd -March 1st, be sure to check out the East Lansing Children’s Film Festival. The Festival which is now in its 10th year will be showing over 100 films from 19 different countries. You will see various filmmaking techniques such as: stop-motion, claymation, scratch [...]

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Michigan Valentine’s Day – How Sweet it Is!

February 13, 2007 – 9:46 am

If you’re looking for something unique for your sweetie this year for Valentine’s Day, Dianna Stampfler of Promote Michigan has 14 gift ideas and activities to consider. As usual, we’d love it if you’d add any other suggestions in the comments! Share this:

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Rivers in winter, rivers in time

February 5, 2007 – 9:32 am

Michigan in Pictures has a pair of features that I hope you take the time to explore. Today, blogger Eric Baerran of Among the Trees and photographer Lisa Yanick take you down to the Chippewa River in winter. On Saturday, one of Michigan’s legendary photographers, Frederick Dickinson was featured with a hand-colored shot of Fishtown [...]

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Grand Rapids Auto Show Multimedia

February 2, 2007 – 10:30 am

Absolute Michigan has produced a multimedia feature from the 2007 Michigan International Auto Show in Grand Rapids. It features the photography of C.A. Carrigan and we’re pretty darned happy with how it came out. Please drop us a line or a comment telling us what you think of it! You can find much more auto [...]

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Banner Earnings for Beaners in 2006

January 31, 2007 – 10:57 am

The LSJ reports that The East Lansing-based Beaner’s Gourmet Coffee set a sales record in 2006, posting a remarkable 53% jump in earnings. The company said it ended 2006 with 63 open units and 75 signed to be opened. It also was ranked 289 out of the top 500 franchise concepts in the United States [...]

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Michigan History: St. Joseph – Wedding Capital, U.S.A.

January 25, 2007 – 8:41 am

fountain in the woods by catzinahat Las Vegas boasts that it is America’s “wedding capital.” Yet, in the early years of the twentieth century, Michigan, especially the Lake Michigan town of St. Joseph, was the “wedding capital of the Midwest.” Michigan marriage laws did not require residency, allowed people to marry at the age of [...]

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Pfizer to lay off 2,410 Michigan employees

January 23, 2007 – 10:26 am

Downtown Kalamazoo by Paladin27 Pfizer Inc. announced Monday afternoon that will close its enormous Ann Arbor research facilities and part of its operations in Kalamazoo, leaving 2,410 of its Michigan employees unemployed. The layoffs will occur between now and the end of 2008 and are part of a larger “streamlining” that will eventually result in [...]

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9th Annual Michigan International Auto Show in Grand Rapids

January 16, 2007 – 9:51 am

Cadi by JoeJoeSmoe Thought you’d seen it all with the North American International Auto Show in Detroit? Not quite! There’s still the 9th Annual Michigan International Auto Show in Grand Rapids! Buy your tickets online before you head over. Head over to DeVos Place Thursday, February 1st – Sunday, February 4th, 2007 to check out [...]

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