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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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MCS 7.2.7: Transformers co-star Michigan Central Station

Today Transformers opens at screens across the country, and we thought it would be a good idea to give a shout out to the city of Detroit in general, and Detroit's Michigan Central Station in particular. As the still above shows, MCS gets…
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Blogs We Dig: The Hometown Invasion Tour

The Hometown Invasion Tour is a documentation of the travels of Justin Sailor (a Michigan native) and friend (Rice the plastic squirrel) through each of the 50 states, staying "with a different family in each state, documenting hometown life…
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Ready to Pick: Peas!

Peas by catzinahat Taste the Local Difference has posted their Ready to Pick: Peas! The feature explores the sweet taste of fresh-picked peas shell peas and sugar snap peas, and also features a look at Zaccaro's Market in Charlevoix (just…
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Five Things you need to know about Michigan for Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Vacation Time? There's an interesting speech by Sen. Mark Schauer (D-Battle Creek) wondering if now is a good time for members of the Senate to take a summer recess, pointing out (quite rightly) that schools, local government and others are…
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Radio Silence: June 26 ... and beyond?

We interrupt this blog to let you know that we stand with the many internet radio stations that will observe a national Day of Silence today. Royalty rates for webcasters have been drastically increased by a recent ruling and are due to go into…
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Five things you need to know about Michigan for Monday, June 25, 2007

Welcome to our special "Geez are we worried about the Great Lakes" edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan... Crown jewel of North America? Ontario's Premier Dalton McGuinty says that the Great Lakes are a tremendous…
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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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Blogs We Dig: Left Behind at the Fishbowl

Michigamua (ibid) If you've gone through life thinking that college students were smart, Left Behind at the Fishbowl will correct that assumption pretty quickly. Left Behind at the Fishbowl is a collection of "student leftovers at the printers…
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Michigan's Mackinac Bridge

2007 is the 50th Anniversary of the Mighty Mac. We'll be telling the story of the Mackinac Bridge piece by piece here on Absolute Michigan and on Michigan in Pictures and we'll post links to the photos and stories below. If you have some links…
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Photo Friday: Mackinac Bridge by maproomsystems

Brett takes some amazingly diverse photos and is the Director of Operations for the even more amazingly diverse Maproom Systems. I don't know what else to say, so I'll stop now.
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Tiger All Star Voting: Push for Placido (and Magglio & Pudge)

In practically every category, Detroit Tiger second baseman Placido Polanco has the edge over Yankees 2nd bagger Robinson Cano: batting average (Polanco is hitting .343 and 4th the majors), on base percentage, batting average with runners in…