
Five things you need to know for Tuesday, November 27, 2007
They said it: Dana Johnson, chief economist for used-to-be-Detroit-based Comerica Bank in forecasting modest 1-2% growth for Michigan's economy in 2008. We'll finally have the sense, after four years of a downturn, we're on a rise again. Roy…

Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary
Exploring the wreck of the Grecian
Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary
Most information provided by the DEQ's Michigan Underwater Preserves page.
The Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary in Lake Huron off Alpena was designated in…

Five things you need to know for Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Downtown, down the hatch, downriver, downstream - I'm sensing some kind of a theme here...
Quicken Chooses Detroit Yesterday's Detroit News reported that Quicken Loans has chosen to move its headquarters to Detroit:
The move, pending…

Word of the Week: Freighter
St. Mary's Challenger by midmichphotos
The word of the week is freighter, a familiar sight all along Michigan's shores. If there's one site that you can't miss, it's Great Lakes & Seaway Shipping Online aka "boatnerd.com". For well…

Absolute Michigan Word of the Week: Shipwreck
Sandusky by Michael Schout
The word of the week is shipwreck, and all November on Absolute Michigan we'll be featuring tales of the dangerous side of Great Lakes. A staggering 6,000 vessels have been lost to the fury of these inland seas,…

George Romney - a "brainwashed" candidate?
Forty years ago this past September, George Romney sat down with Detroit television host Lou Gordon. Responding to a question about an earlier visit to Vietnam, the Michigan governor said that he "had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can…

Blogs We Dig: Dr. Fong's House of Mysteries
Kids, ask your parents before you go here - it can be kind of spooky!
It's probably a good thing that there's only one Dr. Fong's House of Mysteries, and even better that it's located right here in Michigan, if only to protect us from the…

Five (spooky) Things you need to know about Michigan
Welcome to a special Halloween prequel edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan. You can find more spooky stuff at our Haunted Michigan page and also at the Michigan Word of the Week: Halloween! Know a ghostly tale or link that…

Haunted Michigan
A Haunting on Hemingway by Arace
We'll keep track of the haunting highlights from Michigan on this page as we find them! If you have any to add, please post a link in the comments below or send us an email!
Five (spooky) Things you…

Fall Color Tours: Old Mission, Traverse City, Leelanau & Benzie
Our next stop (as designed by Travel Michigan) is the region of Northwest Lower Michigan containing Traverse City - Northport - Frankfort. This also appeared on Michigan in Pictures. There's a lot of links on Absolute Michigan that can add…

Photo Friday: McLain Lighthouse (Close up) by useful fiction
The word of the week this week on Absolute Michigan was lighthouse, so I thought I'd go to the Absolute Michigan pool and search for "lighthouse". As of this morning, there are 714, and they make a pretty nice slideshow. Rather than taking…

Blogs We Dig: Michigan Innovators
Moon Patrol by powerbooktrance
Each post at Michigan Innovators is a video podcast interview with innovators who can or have had an impact on Michigan's economy. Two professors at the College of Business at Eastern Michigan University,…
