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Five Things you need to know for Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

Watch Michael Moore's Sicko online, birdwatch (or apartment hunt) in Detroit's Brush Park, follow the growing Michigan wine industry with a new blog and head over to Fremont, Michigan - baby food capital of the world!
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The Absolute Michigan channel on chime.tv

The chime.tv web site provides a very well thought out and high-powered* interface for viewing internet video. They also allow you to create a channel, so we created the Absolute Michigan channel on chime.tv. The first video we're featuring…
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Key provision of Michigan Environmental Protection Act under fire

Sometimes by Andy McFarlane Well, this is a little weighty for a Friday, but in light of that fact that "environment" is a synonym for "the place we'll go to have fun this weekend" I think it's necessary. In a case before the Michigan…
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June 19, 2007: Baseball, birds, biking, Bad Axe ... and pensions

I have to say that as a web developer, I really admire the dynamic ways in which the web team at the Detroit News presents complex information. A great example of this is their interactive teacher pension costs presentation. It makes it point…
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Michigan business tax deal reached

Morning Light by curlyson The Detroit Free Press (At last, state has business tax deal), mLive (Finally -- agreement on biz tax) and the Lansing State Journal (Business leaders welcome tax plan) report that Gov. Granholm and leaders of…
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Annual Michigan Energy Fair in Manistee

NOTE: We'll have details on the 2008 Michigan Energy Fair here next year! You should also check out this report on the 2007 Michigan Energy Fair (with video) from the Michigan Land Use Institute. The annual Michigan Energy Fair will be held…
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The Mood at Mackinac

Porch of the Grand Hotel by FrancescaM From the Grand Hotel at the annual Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce Mackinac Policy Conference (via their "Fresh Thoughts" email), the Center for Michigan gauges the mood of the attendees: GENERAL…
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Freakonomics author Steven Levitt on Michigan's economy

Freaky Capitol by Andy McFarlane One of the things in the Center for Michigan's weekly email last Friday was a link to Model D's interview with Freakonomics co-author Steven Levitt following his talk at Wayne State University. When we…
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Automation Alley rolls with the changes

Michigan Radio's Jack Lessenberry interviews Thomas Anderson, vice-president and the senior director of Automation Alley about how the Southeast Michigan based organization is working to help businesses in the City of Detroit and Genesee, Livingston,…
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The point is, sometimes you don't know the point

Lucas Seidenfaden recently took his camera (and Peleng 8mm fisheye) to Detroit. I thought that the results were pretty cool. It was made even cooler when I clicked to the slideshow of Lucas's Detroit photos. Hooray for Flickr's User Interface…
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Five Things you need to know about Michigan for Monday, May 14, 2007

Been a while since I got the old 5 out of the bag. Great Lakes Blogger Dave Dempsey gets a stand-up double with this stunning satellite view of the Great Lakes, of which NASA says: At the very top of the image is a round white patch - this…
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Blogs We Dig: Grow Detroit

Under the People Mover by suesue2 If you've been paying attention to Absolute Michigan over the last few months, you are probably aware of Grow Detroit due to the fact that we always seem to be linking to stories over there. Their diverse…