It's an off-year Election Day edition of Five Things You Need to Know about Michigan. Despite the lack of big name offices to decide, there's a lot of the nuts and bolts decisions to make about schools and local government. The Secretary of State reminds you to bring your photo ID to the polls for easier voting!
Hunting for a Clue?
The Detroit News reports that the annual legislative break for deer hunting season is five days longer than last year's and comes as they are still debating the 6 percent sales tax on services. Rep. Steve Bieda, chair of the House Tax Policy Committee thinks it's poor timing for a break and commented: "People who elect us expect us to do our jobs -- especially when there is a major problem to be addressed -- and I think the service tax falls into that category." (You have to check this out- it's a gold mine of quotes!)
Conveniently Shop Michigan
Dianna from Promote Michigan passed along this Flint Journal article about the re-branding of Quick-Sav convenience stores. The Michigan-based company's 25 Michigan stores have all been re-branded as Beacon & Bridge Market and will stock Faygo pop & Better Made potato chips of Detroit, Kar's Nuts of Madison Heights, Freestone Pickles of Bangor, Pioneer Sugar of Bay City, Kellogg's cereal of Battle Creek, Bar's Leak of Holly, doughnuts from Auntie Em's in Lansing and Flint's Country Fresh dairy products. Cool!
State Theatre Grand Opening
The historic State Theatre in Traverse City is re-opening as a full-time art house and film center. The Grand Opening is Saturday, November 17 and opening night activities include a black-tie cocktail reception and dinner at the City Opera House followed by a red carpet premiere at the State featuring a historic perspective of the theater by TC filmmaker Rich Brauer and a full-length Hollywood film premier. The Traverse City Film Festival has a whole slate of activities planned for opening week (Nov 17-25) and you can get all the information and order tickets right here.
Traverse City, in Pictures
I took the photo of the State Theatre marquee, so I don't have to say anything more about that .... other than I'm so happy that my childhood theater will again be showing films! You can get all kinds of great photos of Traverse City and the surrounding area in the Traverse City, Michigan group on Flickr (view group slideshow).
Traverse City, Michigan
As posted yesterday, Absolute Michigan will be at the Traverse City Business Expo all day today - we'll be signing up a ton of businesses and giving away sponsorships, so check out Absolute Michigan keyword Traverse City (and also the new links) for lots of cool sites as the day progresses!
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