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The Center for Michigan asks you to Envision Michigan

The Center for Michigan invites you to participate in the Envision Michigan Competition. Share what do you love about Michigan, what you want to see changed or your best vision for Michigan's future in photo, essay or video form. Weekly winners…
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Michigan Fall Color Tour: The Western Upper Peninsula

This was also posted on today on Michigan in Pictures along with a great view of Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park - check it out! View from the Top by MoodyGoat Ironwood - Silver City - Wakefield is the first Michigan fall color…
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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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Michigan Shoutout Page, book 1

Act 1, Scene 1... Archived comments, events and observations about any old thing are below, latest is on the Michigan Shout-out Page.
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Detroit Lions, is THIS finally their year?

The Future by Dave Hogg While I'd like to say I avoid thinking about the Detroit Lions until October or so, the truth is I'm a Michigan boy and can't help but think that this might be the Lions' "year" ... I mean, it's statistically possible,…
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Quincy Mine, Copper Country and the Keweenaw Peninsula

Abandoned Quincy Mine by Terrapin Dawg Last Friday the New York Times had a nice feature on the Quincy Mine and Copper Country (aka the Keweenaw Peninsula) that begins... Four hundred feet underground, in a musty, dripping passage into…
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Remembering Detroit Tiger Legend Ty Cobb ... again

"He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his greatness as a ballplayer. Ty Cobb was the best. That seemed to be all he wanted." -- Jimmy Cannon "Baseball…
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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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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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Michigan History: Bridging the Straits

As early as the 1880s, Michiganians talked about building a bridge across the Straits of Mackinac. When the Grand Hotel opened on Mackinac Island in 1888, railroad and shipping magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, a member of the hotel's board of directors,…
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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…