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Google announces grants for plug-in vehicle commercialization

Back to the Drawing Board by kqedquest Yesterday Google.org announced an RFP to help accelerate mass commercialization of plug-in vehicles: Google.org has issued a request for investment proposals (RFP) to the tune of $10 million in order…
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Déjà vu all over again in Michigan?

Why anyone would want to govern Michigan is a wonder. The state has deep-seated economic problems, and it is riven by inter-and intraparty bitterness of a sort to make any Governor look bad... Thus begins a 1962 feature from TIME Magazine…
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Lansing Area Capital Gains: Volume 1, Issue 1

Summer Night in Old Town by sabatoa The Model D empire continues its inexorable march to talk about what's going right in Michigan cities with Lansing Area Capital Gains. The first issue includes a feature by managing editor Brad Garmon…
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Labor Day in Michigan (in Pictures)

This photo of the Wings of Victory float in the 1942 Detroit Labor Day Parade is just one of a number from the Library of Congress. More on Labor Day in Michigan over at Michigan in Pictures.
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Kiters raise questions about shoreline access

In Kiters Defend Access, IPR News Radio notes that although the Michigan Supreme Court says anyone can walk along the beaches of the Great Lakes below the ordinary high water mark, landowners often take issue with kiteboarders setting up. Photo:…
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Inside Muskegon's Clay Avenue Cellars

Jason Piasecki's Inside Muskegon podcast - #86 - where does the time go? - features a great interview with Brenda Moore with Clay Avenue Cellars. In addition to profiling a cool winery/gallery in Muskegon, Michigan, the podcast provides a look…
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Blogs We Dig: Our Michigan

For Sale by John BairdCeleste Whiting's Our Michigan is a blog that takes a probing look at hard to comprehend mega-issues like the global financial upheaval, simplifies them, and then explores how they relate to life right here in Michigan.…
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Anyone redefined

Down by the Big Sauble River by simply, Diann The Grand Rapids Press quotes former Michigan Governor William Milliken as saying that Michigan's Environmental Protection Act included the word "anyone" to give anyone the right to sue over…
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Supreme Court cuts key provision from Michigan Environmental Protection Act

Flow by rckrawczykjr In the wake of yesterday's 4-3 decision by the Michigan Supreme Court in Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation vs. Nestle Waters North America, Inc, Dave Dempsey write: Michigan's future is much more at risk today…
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Five things you need to know for Monday, July 23, 2007

Extreme view of the auto industry NPR had an interesting interview with Peter DeLorenzo of Autoextremist.com. Autoextremist is a site that purports to offer "the bare-knuckled, unvarnished, high-octane truth" about the challenges facing…
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Blogs We Dig: Great Lakes Guy

Great Lakes Shore II by Phoenix828979 Andy Guy is the Great Lakes Guy. On his blog, he is tracking the trends transforming the Rust Belt into the Blue Belt. He has called Gov. Granholm for Michigan's failure to develop a green energy strategy…
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Five Things you need to know for Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

I really hope you get a chance to check out yesterday's Michigan Surfing feature. Quite a few cool videos and another shining example (based on reader comments) that Michigan is often more than people believe it to be. Shhh. Proposed Grayling…