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1. Absolute Michigan
   Posted June 2, 2009 at 12:40 pm | Permalink

   Detroit commission votes to level Tiger Stadium

   A Detroit city commission has voted to demolish the section of Tiger Stadium left standing after much of the historic ballpark was knocked down last year.

   The city’s Economic Development Corp. board voted 7-1 today to authorize the complete demolition of the stadium.

   Detroit Economic Growth Corp. vice president Waymon Guillebeaux says the stadium will be leveled as soon as a contract is negotiated with a contractor.

   Tiger Stadium opened in 1912 as Navin Field. The Tigers departed for nearby Comerica Park after the 1999 season.

   Much of the stadium was demolished last year. But a section stretching from dugout to dugout was spared while a nonprofit group tried to raise money to redevelop the remaining structure.

   Source: Freep.com

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2. Absolute Michigan
   Posted June 2, 2009 at 1:25 pm | Permalink

   Lions' Matthew Stafford shows signs of a starter

   You might not get anyone with the Detroit Lions to acknowledge this right now, but the wide-ranging belief in the organization is quarterback Matthew Stafford might be much better than anyone had dared to hope.

   With the organized team activities finishing up this week, Stafford has left an indelible impression on members of the franchise.

   He's still a rookie and he's still making mistakes, but the optimism continues to grow about the team's first overall draft choice. On the field, Stafford shows flashes of brilliance with his quick decision making, rapid release and arm strength.

   Continue reading: mlive.com

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3. Absolute Michigan
   Posted June 2, 2009 at 1:28 pm | Permalink

   More students opting to take on farming opportunities in summer, as career choices

   Growing up in metro Detroit, Adam Montri, outreach coordinator for the MSU Student Organic Farm, didn’t consider farming to be a career choice. “I definitely grew up in the suburbs and thought of agriculture as something you did on the weekend or after school or that kind of thing,” he said.

   While a student at MSU, Montri spent time working at the Student Organic Farm, which eventually led him to earn a master’s degree in horticulture from Penn State University. Now, Montri, who graduated from MSU in 2001, owns his own organic farm in Bath, Mich.

   He’s one of a growing number of people who have or are pursuing agricultural education through internships on organic farms.

   Continue reading: The State News

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4. Absolute Michigan
   Posted June 2, 2009 at 1:51 pm | Permalink

   West Michigan, Thumb best for wind energy, report says

   Three regions in West Michigan and one region in the Thumb area have the state’s highest potential for wind energy projects, according to a report released Tuesday by a state board.

   The Michigan Wind Energy Resource Zone Board issued preliminary findings in a report which looked at commercial or utility-scale wind energy projects on land.

   The four regions identified with the highest wind energy harvest potential include parts of: Allegan County; Antrim and Charlevoix counties; Benzie, Leelanau and Manistee counties; and Bay, Huron, Saginaw, Sanilac and Tuscola counties in the Thumb.

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5. Absolute Michigan
   Posted June 2, 2009 at 3:47 pm | Permalink

   MSU will receive nearly $400,000 in federal stimulus money

   Michigan State University will receive nearly $400,000 in federal stimulus money from the National Institutes of Health, funds that will support health care research and training.

   Overall, five Michigan colleges and universities, along with the Van Andel Research Institute in Grand Rapids, will get a combined total of $2.7 million in funding.

   The University of Michigan’s take accounts for nearly half of that, $1.3 million.

   “This economic recovery funding will help to preserve and create jobs in Michigan while also investing in important medical research,” said U.S. Senator Carl Levin, in a statement released today. “Michigan’s top-notch universities are well-equipped to put this funding to good use.”

   The other schools receiving money are Wayne State University, Oakland University and Calvin College.

   Source: LSJ.com

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6. Absolute Michigan
   Posted June 2, 2009 at 6:48 pm | Permalink

   Granholm to attend White House meeting on rail funding

   Gov. Jennifer Granholm is one of eight governors coming to the White House on Wednesday to talk about options and funding for high-speed rail with Vice President Joe Biden and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

   The meeting is set for 1 p.m. Attending the meeting with Granholm will be Govs. Jim Doyle of Wisconsin, Tim Kaine of Virginia, Jay Nixon of Missouri, Deval Patrick of Massachusetts, Sonny Perdue of Georgia, Pat Quinn of Illinois and Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania.

   Earlier this year, President Barack Obama identified 10 potential high-speed rail corridors which could compete for $8 billion – plus additional funding over five years – to get projects underway.

   A Detroit-to-Chicago link is one part of a Midwest corridor being pushed hard by Granholm. It would cost about $1.4 billion and could translate into thousands of construction and spin-off jobs as businesses sprout along the rail line, according to the state Transportation Department.

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7. Absolute Michigan
   Posted June 4, 2009 at 10:52 am | Permalink

   PETA proposes to take control of Grand Haven lighthouses, to create its "fish empathy" headquarters

   If PETA can't protect horses in Holland, the animal rights organization is going to try to hook the public on safeguarding fish in Grand Haven.

   The national group on Wednesday asked the National Park Service if it could take control of the iconic Grand Haven lighthouses, where it would serve faux fish sticks in a cafe there and inform people about the alleged torment fish endure when hooked or netted.

   Earlier this year, the park service declared the Grand Haven lights were available under the National Lighthouse Preservation Act, which allows the transfer of ownership to groups to preserve the beacons.

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8. Absolute Michigan
   Posted June 4, 2009 at 1:26 pm | Permalink

   Obama appoints Great Lakes czar

   President Barack Obama has named Cameron Davis, president of a Chicago-based environmentalist group, to oversee the administration’s initiative to clean up the Great Lakes.

   Davis is president of the Alliance for the Great Lakes, one of the organizations that has lobbied for implementation of a restoration program expected to cost more than $20 billion.

   The alliance announced the appointment Wednesday.

   Davis will coordinate efforts of about a dozen federal agencies working on the Great Lakes project, which deals with issues such as invasive species, polluted harbors, sewage overflows and degraded wildlife habitat.

   Obama promised during his campaign last year to create such a position. His proposed 2010 budget seeks $475 million in new spending on the lakes.

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9. Absolute Michigan
   Posted June 4, 2009 at 1:42 pm | Permalink

   Urban gardening lets women grow

   Gardening is quiet and hopeful, a specific remedy for despair that requires only soil, water, sunshine and human will.

   That's why, in the shadow of a long-closed Catholic school, in a ravaged east side neighborhood, a woman steers a small tractor through a field, leaving crisply trimmed grass behind.

   That's why "urban farming" is suddenly being talked about as a practical way to reclaim the Detroit prairie: It nurtures people and feeds them.

   Here, at the Marian Center, a dusted-off, century-old priest's rectory, 24 women are toiling in their own large garden -- growing food for their kitchen and for the community beyond. Released to this center from jail, they are at once reviving the city and their own spirits.

   Continue reading: detnews.com

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10. Absolute Michigan
    Posted June 4, 2009 at 2:17 pm | Permalink

    Commitment to Detroit drives Royal Transportation

    Forget New York City. Don Fitzsimmons calls Detroit his kind of town.

    That is why the owner of Royal Transportation drops everything from his schedule when the Red Hat Society comes calling or when Motor City legends like Roger Penske ask for a hand organizing the Detroit Grand Prix.

    It is Fitzsimmon's commitment to boosting Detroit's reputation that has earned him these and other significant transportation contracts, such as the NCAA Final Four Basketball Tournament in April and the United Way Detroit Convention in May.

    As a result of these and other events, Royal Transportation is the third largest company of its kind in Michigan, with $3.2 million in sales for 2008. Fitzsimmons said the company is on track to do fairly well this year despite the region's tough economic times.

    Continue reading: The Detroit News

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11. Absolute Michigan
    Posted June 4, 2009 at 2:22 pm | Permalink

    U.P. deer harvest drops

    Michigan Department of Natural Resources researchers report the overall deer harvest in the Upper Peninsula dipped about 11 percent last fall from 2007, while the buck harvest dropped significantly more in both the western and eastern parts of the region.

    The Michigan Deer Harvest Survey Report 2008 Seasons was scheduled to be released today to the Michigan Natural Resources Commission in Lansing.

    The estimated U.P. deer harvest for all seasons declined from 57,988 in 2007 to 51,769 last fall, a drop of 10.7 percent. The buck harvest in the U.P. slipped 14.7 percent from 40,529 in 2007 to 34,582 in 2008.

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12. Absolute Michigan
    Posted June 4, 2009 at 4:22 pm | Permalink

    Lawmakers debate limits to Michigan film incentives

    It certainly got Clint Eastwood's attention. His acclaimed "Gran Torino" was one of the 28 movies produced mostly in Michigan last year, up from three films shot here in 2007.

    The euphoria over Michigan's flirtation with cinema stars may not last long, however, amid budget woes as high as $2 billion and a projection that film-related rebates could sap $150 million from next year's state tax collections.

    Some lawmakers already want to limit the program, which also offers tax rebates up to 25 percent on the costs to build production facilities here and a 50-percent non-refundable tax credit for on-the-job training expenses.

    But the Lansing consensus has been that it's more important to help offset our auto industry's decline by getting a chunk of the $60-billion U.S. film industry.

    The idea of the film incentives is to help create a new industry that would diversify the state's economy. The trick, experts contend, will be to figure out when a big enough movie infrastructure has been created in Michigan so the tax credits can be phased out.

    Continue reading: The Detroit News

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13. Absolute Michigan
    Posted June 4, 2009 at 5:29 pm | Permalink

    Movie crew gives Tiger Stadium a last hurrah before wrecking ball

    A film crew is giving Tiger Stadium a temporary reprieve from the wrecking ball as they shoot a movie at the old ballpark today.

    For production of the independent film “The Irishman,” the site will morph into Cleveland Municipal Stadium, which was demolished in 1995 and replaced. Val Kilmer, Christopher Walken and Ray Stevenson are starring in the film.

    Construction coordinator Sean Clouser of Sweet Williams Productions said this morning that he booked a day at the ballpark about a week ago, before the stadium is to be torn down.

    “That’s kind of a shame,” he said, adding that they plan to be done by mid-afternoon before filming along the Cass Corridor, Eastern Market and Corktown, among other areas. “It’s a prep. Film and get out in one day.”

    The independent film, which does not have a release date, documents the life of Cleveland-area union organizer and mobster Danny Greene, who was killed by a car bomb as he left a dentist’s appointment.

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14. Absolute Michigan
    Posted June 5, 2009 at 12:57 pm | Permalink

    Economist: Michigan to start to recover in 2010

    Comerica Bank's chief economist predicted today that Michigan's battered economy will finally start to recover next year, aided by a rebound in the national economy.

    “This long nightmare now in its sixth year… the end is going to be in 2010,” Dana Johnson told a large crowd of the bank’s business clients gathered at the Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Hills.

    Johnson’s forecast came despite a grim prognosis for the ailing state. He expects Michigan’s real gross domestic product – the inflation-adjusted value of all goods and services produced in the state – to drop by 4% to 5% this year, compared with a 1.5% decline in 2008.

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15. Absolute Michigan
    Posted June 8, 2009 at 12:28 pm | Permalink

    Nonprofit group Greening of Detroit works to restore canopy in Motor City

    A batch of trees that will soon be planted on a wild, overgrown patch of land near a Detroit neighborhood is expected to be a step toward bringing back a vibrant, green canopy to the Motor City.

    The nonprofit group Greening of Detroit is pushing urban reforestation -- even during a tough economy -- with projects as diverse as a Christmas tree farm, neighborhood gardens and thousands of tree plantings along busy streets.

    "The need is expanding, so we're trying to keep pace," said Rebecca Salminen Witt, the organization's president.

    Known a century ago for its tree-lined streets and neighborhoods, the city saw much of its greenery fall casualty to the spread of Dutch elm disease in the 1950s and, more recently, the tree-killing emerald ash borer.

    These days, there is no time for replanting because the city's more than 50 forestry employees are focused on cutting down dead or dying trees across Detroit's 138 square miles.

    Continue reading: mlive.com

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16. Absolute Michigan
    Posted June 11, 2009 at 11:06 am | Permalink

    University of Michigan researchers find clues at bottom of Lake Huron to ancient hunters

    University of Michigan researchers have found the first archaeological evidence of ancient human hunting activity preserved under the Great Lakes.

    Using detailed government data on lake floor topography, a research vessel and a remote mini-rover equipped with a camera, scientists found what they believe are hunting pits, camps and rock structures called caribou "drive lines" on the bottom of Lake Huron.

    Drive lines, also called drive lanes, are walls built of rocks that hunters used to lure caribou into ambush. A peculiarity of the deer species is that it readily follows linear cues, even though the rock walls are short enough to step over.

    The structures were found on an underwater ridge that - about 9,000 years ago - was a land bridge above water. The 10-mile-wide Alpena-Amberley ridge stretches more than 100 miles from near Point Clark, Ontario, to Presque Isle.

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17. Absolute Michigan
    Posted June 12, 2009 at 4:09 pm | Permalink

    Biden: $2-billion boost coming to help Michigan

    Michigan will receive an extra $2 billion boost from the federal government to help weather the restructuring of the domestic auto industry and create new jobs, Vice President Joe Biden announced today. The $2 billion is in addition to the $7 billion in federal stimulus money already headed to the state.

    And Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties will be the biggest beneficiaries.

    Biden said the U.S. Department of Treasury will issue $2 billion in bonds for Michigan – called recovery zone bonds – which drew whoops of joy from Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who hugged Biden on the outdoor stage before a crowd of about 200 at a Kalamazoo high school. The site overlooked a stretch of I-94 that will undergo a$48 million reconstruction, with four new bridges, paid for with federal stimulus money.

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18. Cravings Catering
    Posted June 15, 2009 at 11:32 am | Permalink

    Cravings Cafe is now open at Lakeside Inn in Lake Side Michigan. For more information on our Brakfast Cafe and up and coming dinner events visit
    http://www.lakesideinn.com or send me an e-mail and I will send you an calendar of events.

    Loking forward to seeing you back again this year!

    Eventfully yours
    Jody Kearney
    Event Director
    Staff Coordinator
    Wedding Consultant
    Cravings Catering
    Cravingsweddings@aol.com
    269-408-1460

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19. Absolute Michigan
    Posted June 15, 2009 at 2:16 pm | Permalink

    Bill Laimbeer leaving Detroit Shock, possibly eyeing NBA coaching job

    Bill Laimbeer will be stepping down as the Detroit Shock head coach after more than six seasons with the team, according to the Detroit Free Press and WXYZ Detroit.

    Laimbeer had a great deal of success coaching the Shock, taking over the league-worst team in the middle of the 2002 season and completing a remarkable turnaround to win the franchise's first WNBA title in 2003.

    Continue reading: mlive.com

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20. Absolute Michigan
    Posted June 15, 2009 at 4:50 pm | Permalink

    Tesla Motors Founder: Let Me Run Detroit

    Elon Musk has tackled electric cars, space ships and modular renewable energy stations. Now he wants a real challenge: running Detroit.

    “When the mess gets sorted out, I’d like to have a conversation with whoever’s in charge at the time — the car czar or whoever — and say ‘I’d like to run your plants, if you don’t mind,’” Musk said, starting that conversation Monday at Wired’s first-ever business conference, Disruptive by Design in Manhattan.

    What would he do? Hint: he doesn’t think much of namby-pamby hybrids. In the future, Musk said, only electric cars will make sense.

    He characterized cars like the Toyota Prius as “splitting the baby” in the style of King Solomon — a compromise that delivers neither the perfect gas-driven or electric-driven experience, due to the duplicate equipment required to harness dual energy sources.

    Continue reading: wired.com

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21. Absolute Michigan
    Posted June 18, 2009 at 1:51 pm | Permalink

    Granholm Announces Companies Investing Over $247 Million, Creating More Than 11,000 New Jobs in Michigan

    Governor Jennifer M. Granholm today announced that Michigan's aggressive strategy to diversify the economy and attract investment to Michigan has resulted in 15 job-creating projects, which will generate more than 11,125 new jobs, retain another 846 and bring more than $247 million in new investment to communities across the state.

    The projects span the upper and lower peninsulas and include aerospace, automotive and wind-turbine manufacturers; one of the nation's largest insurance management service companies; and brownfield redevelopments that will transform abandoned and contaminated sites into new centers of economic growth and activity.

    "We are making significant progress toward diversifying Michigan's economy despite a national recession," Granholm said. "The expansions announced today demonstrate that businesses across a wide spectrum of sectors are choosing Michigan over other states for new growth opportunities. These are the types of projects that will transform our economy and create good-paying jobs for our workers."

    For project details visit michigan.gov

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22. Absolute Michigan
    Posted June 18, 2009 at 3:52 pm | Permalink

    
    TOMORROW-LAND (Apr, 1965) - GM’s exciting “idea” cars

    High spot of the New York World’s Fair reopening this Spring — GM Futurama!

    You can look over GM’s exciting “idea” cars — Firebird IV with television, stereo, game table, refrigerator; GM-X with jet aircraft cockpit and controls—fascinating design and engineering innovations right out of
    tomorrow.

    Check it out: modernmechanix.com

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23. Absolute Michigan
    Posted June 18, 2009 at 5:01 pm | Permalink

    Michigan through a Hollywood lens

    It's a typical Southern California afternoon, with the sun-drenched mansions of Beverly Hills providing the million-dollar view from Gary Gilbert's office, seven stories above Sunset Boulevard. But Gilbert, a Southfield native and University of Michigan grad, is more interested in the photos of Michigan's Sleeping Bear Dunes just delivered by his assistant.

    "See, you just can't get this in California," says Gilbert, who co-founded Livonia-based Quicken Loans with his brother, Dan, and rose to Hollywood prominence by bankrolling the 2004 surprise-hit indie flick "Garden State."

    "This is what I want Hollywood to see. We're not just the tax credit state. We've got so much more."

    Continue reading: detnews.com

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24. Absolute Michigan
    Posted June 19, 2009 at 2:39 pm | Permalink

    New Shock coach Rick Mahorn wants to maintain status quo

    Rick Mahorn wore a pink polo shirt to the news conference at which he was named head coach of the Detroit Shock on Monday.

    At 6-foot-10 and 300-plus pounds, Mahorn pretty much can wear anything he wants.

    "I like pink," he said.

    The question is can he win a WNBA championship with the Shock -- it would be the team's fourth -- in a season in which Bill Laimbeer resigned as coach and general manager three games into the season and three of the team's best players -- Kara Braxton, Cheryl Ford and Plenette Pierson -- are sidelined due to injury and suspension?

    Mahorn makes his debut tonight when the Shock hosts the Indiana Fever.

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25. Absolute Michigan
    Posted June 19, 2009 at 2:54 pm | Permalink

    Farmers markets blooming as more buy local products

    Mary Elizabeth Barnette shops at farmers markets whenever she can, even when she's on vacation.

    Recently, the Haslett resident could be found browsing at a produce stand - showcasing tomato and broccoli plants, strawberries and radishes - at the DeWitt Farmers Market.

    "I like to support local people," said Barnette, 61. "We're getting really corporate in America and the little person is getting squeezed out."

    New farmers markets pop up each year in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service. Communities nationwide offer more than 4,700 markets - more than double the 1,755 that existed in 1994, the agency said.

    Continue reading: LSJ.com

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26. Absolute Michigan
    Posted June 23, 2009 at 1:16 pm | Permalink

    Yzerman expected to get Hall call today

    Barry Sanders. Isiah Thomas. Steve Yzerman.

    This afternoon, Yzerman, 44, should join Detroit's sporting icons of the last generation as a Hall of Famer.

    And when the Hockey Hall of Fame announces its class of 2009, two other members of Yzerman's 2002 Stanley Cup team could join him: Brett Hull, who has more goals than any other American, and Luc Robitaille, who has more goals than any other left wing.

    A maximum of four players can be voted in, and Yzerman, Hull and defenseman Brian Leetch are considered locks by many pundits. Alexander Mogilny and Dave Andreychuk are other first-time candidates who had great careers.

    Continue reading: Freep.com

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27. Absolute Michigan
    Posted June 23, 2009 at 8:33 pm | Permalink

    Wings' Steve Yzerman makes Hall of Fame; Hull, Robitaille also elected

    Steve Yzerman was one of the greatest players in NHL history. Tuesday, he was recognized for it. The legendary Red Wings player was selected to the Hockey Hall of Fame, as part of the one most star-studded induction classes ever.

    Yzerman and former Red Wings teammates Brett Hull and Luc Robitaille, along with former New York Rangers defenseman Brian Leetch, will be enshrined Nov. 9 in Toronto.

    Continue reading: The Detroit News

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28. Absolute Michigan
    Posted June 23, 2009 at 8:43 pm | Permalink

    Obama to hold Detroit area town hall

    President Barack Obama plans to hold a town hall in the Detroit area July 14 -- his first trip to the state since he stepped into the White House.

    An administration official said no details are available about the town hall, including where it will be held or what issues Obama will focus on at the meeting.

    David Stromolo of Farmington says he hopes the president talks about health care.

    "I work at GMAC, and we don't get health care when we retire now," said Stromolo, 53. "I'd like to know how he is moving on health care and whether it will be nationalized, like in Canada. I would like that."

    Judy Sims, 56, an elementary school cook in Davison, says she hopes the president talks about what he's going to do to help the state turn around.

    "He's trying, but I think he is spreading himself too thin," Sims said. "There are so many problems around the world. He needs to concentrate."

    Pollster Bernie Porn of EPIC/MRA predicts Obama will "go into the lion's den" -- a town heavily impacted by the restructuring of the auto industry -- and address people's concerns.

    Continue reading: The Detroit News

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29. Absolute Michigan
    Posted June 25, 2009 at 4:55 pm | Permalink

    GM small car plant to be in Michigan

    A person briefed on the decision says General Motors will build its new subcompact car at a factory in Orion Township, Mich.

    The person says the automaker is scheduled to announce the move Friday. The person did not want to be identified because the plan has not been made public.

    GM spokeswoman Sherrie Childers Arb declined to comment.

    The Orion plant was competing with factories in Spring Hill, Tenn., and Janesville, Wis., for the tiny car.

    Source: LSJ.com

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30. Absolute Michigan
    Posted June 29, 2009 at 7:35 am | Permalink

    Cool weather, slow growing means Traverse City will import cherries for National Cherry Festival

    Traverse City-area fruit growers say the region's cherry crop will still be on the trees when the National Cherry Festival begins next weekend.

    According to a report in the Traverse City Record-Eagle, cool weather has meant the fruit is a week or two behind schedule. That means cherries sweet won't be ready for harvest until early July and tart cherries later that month.

    The cherry festival, which celebrates the region's role as a national leader in cherry production, runs Saturday through July 11. But cherries or not, the festival continues, so business owners told The Record-Eagle they plan to import fruit from growers farther south.

    Continue reading: mlive.com

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31. Absolute Michigan
    Posted June 30, 2009 at 8:24 am | Permalink

    Kresge Foundation steps up gifts to Detroit causes

    Call it an artist's jackpot, or a clever gambit to help Michigan hold on to some of its best creative talent.

    Today, 18 Detroit-area artists officially will win $25,000 each, the first awards of an unprecedented no-strings-attached annual fellowship program designed to keep the area's top visual artists from leaving the state in search of greener pastures.

    And while the auto sector is famously limping, sometime late this year or early next, construction crews will break ground on a brand-new light-rail line running up Woodward Avenue.

    Neither would have happened without the Troy-based Kresge Foundation, which spearheaded the privately financed streetcar line with an up-front pledge of $35 million and created and funded the artists' fellowships.

    Continue reading: detnews.com

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32. Absolute Michigan
    Posted June 30, 2009 at 3:37 pm | Permalink

    Is Bill Laimbeer a candidate to replace Michael Curry?

    Is Bill Laimbeer a candidate to replace Michael Curry as Pistons coach?

    Laimbeer, the former Pistons player who rose to prominence in the organization during the Bad Boys era, resigned as coach of the WNBA's Detroit Shock on June 16. Laimbeer has for years expressed a desire to be an NBA coach.

    When he was contacted by The Detroit News on Tuesday and asked about Curry's firing, Laimbeer said, "It's the first I've heard of it. Really, they fired him?"

    Continue reading: detnews.com

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33. Absolute Michigan
    Posted June 30, 2009 at 4:26 pm | Permalink

    Great Lakes wolves returning to endangered list

    The federal government on Monday agreed to put gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region back on the endangered species list — at least temporarily.

    The decision came less than two months after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service discontinued federal protection for about 4,000 wolves in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. The agency acknowledged Monday that it erred by not holding a legally required public comment period before taking action.

    Continue reading: msnbc.com

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