Peregrine falcon near Old Harry Rocks, Dorset by pompey_diver The cuckoo-y tastes of peregrines at bootstrap analysis is one more post that makes me love blogs and bloggers. It begins: Seeing a Peregrine Falcon is not very unusual in southeast Michigan. Although they were not historically found in these parts, they were introduced into the […]
Diana Country Road by Matt Blackcustard A story that we missed from Thursday was the challenge Gov. Granholm issued to members of the newly created Michigan Renewable Fuels Commission. The panel is charged with promoting the state’s production and distribution of alternative fuels. In a talk worthy of a football coach (and from the sounds […]
This Friday’s photo has long been one of my favorites. It was taken with one of those wonderfully woeful Holga cameras and cross-processed (deliberately processed in the wrong chemical solution). In addition to being in the Absolute Michigan group, it was also one of the first photos added to our brand new Michigan Gallery on […]
Fire Millen?
Veteran Michigan political analyst George Weeks has a review of the new book by “See Dick and Jen Run” by Tim Skubick.
Oil Reserves in Doubt by Michael P. Whelan Read about largest oil terminal in the world, Ras Tanura General Motors and Ford are scraping by, trying to sell the cars of yesterday to the citizens of tomorrow. It isn’t working. Thus contends a brilliant column, The Big Three Drive on ‘E’ by Jack Lessenberry that […]
Please note that this afternoon (Thursday, Nov 30), Absolute Michigan may experience intermittent outages as we move to a new, larger server. We expect to have everything put back together by Thursday night! Done!
U-M Spiral Staircase by Ryan Munson The Detroit Free Press reports that yesterday the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University announced an agreement to share research and researchers between the three schools. In the last five years, the state’s three research universities have averaged a patent a day and led to […]
Rob takes aim, copy; Jenni Jones This Lansing State Journal editorial agrees with a Michigan Department of Natural Resources advisory panel recommendation (panel report – pdf) to increase the cost of hunting, fishing and trapping licenses. The LSJ says that the ultimate decision rests with the Legislature and that in the face of looming deficits: […]
Superman has kryptonite, and apparently I have KISS.
The Detroit Free Press reports that in one of the tightest races in the 26-year history of the award, Frankfort’s Brenna Banktson has captured the 2006 Miss Basketball award, given annually by the Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan and Free Press. Banktson, who will attend Western Michigan University, scored 1,966 career points and grabbed more […]
Javon Ringer dives by spartanjoe We’ve given a lot of attention to the Wolverines lately, so here’s news that Michigan State will hire former Spartan assistant and University of Cincinnati coach Mark Dantonio (also see this Freep story) to replace outgoing John L. Smith as head coach. Dantonio has 24 years of collegiate coaching experience […]