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Gradual DNR hunting & fishing license fees increase floated

Hunting for Bait by Kathy AP writer John Flesher says that although an advisory panel proposed a package of license fee increases to solve a chronic funding shortfall in the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, lawmakers failed to…
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The Michigan Heart Gallery needs your love

The Michigan Heart Gallery is a traveling (and online) photographic exhibit of children in the foster care system who are waiting for a permanent family of their own through adoption. The Heart Gallery photos are taken by professional photographers…
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Governor Granholm takes Your Calls

Granholm Convention '06 by C.A. Carrigan Real Archive and MP3 download (28 MB). Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm took telephone calls from across the state in a live call-in show airing on Michigan Public Radio Network (MPRN)…
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Black History Month: Fighting for Equality in Michigan

During the mid-nineteenth century, Michigan's African American population was quite small in number. In 1860, about 7,000 blacks lived in Michigan-less than 1 percent of the state's population. Although white Michiganians supported the destruction…
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Fool Rooster by Joshua Davis featured at Meijer

Joshua Davis w/ Greg Brown by Andrew McFarlane The Lansing Hub reports that Michigan-based Meijer has selected Joshua Davis, the singer of the Lansing-based Steppin' In It, is the first artist of the month in their new "Outside the Mainstream"…
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First Look at Michigan's New State Budget

Hot off the presses in Lansing, and as promised in Tuesday's State of the State Address, Governor Jennifer M. Granholm has released her 2007 Michigan Budget. As expected the Budget offers many cuts to various state agencies, and also implements ...an…
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Lake Magazine features Absolute Michigan!

Lake Michigan Beach near Pentwater, MI by kevinkrLake Magazine has a nice write-up on Absolute Michigan in their current issue. Here's an excerpt: ...from Monroe to Ironwood, from New Buffalo to the Soo. Absolute Michigan's news digest is as…
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Rivers in winter, rivers in time

Michigan in Pictures has a pair of features that I hope you take the time to explore. Today, blogger Eric Baerran of Among the Trees and photographer Lisa Yanick take you down to the Chippewa River in winter. On Saturday, one of Michigan's…
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Grand Rapids Auto Show Multimedia

Absolute Michigan has produced a multimedia feature from the 2007 Michigan International Auto Show in Grand Rapids. It features the photography of C.A. Carrigan and we're pretty darned happy with how it came out. Please drop us a line or…
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Michigan Cherries

 In honor of National Cherry Month and Michigan's vital and growing cherry industry, we present this special features from Taste the Local Difference by Carolyn Kelly Traverse City Images by mstephens7 They're here! Cherries, northwest…
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Spend some time with Michigan writer Jim Harrison

1 1/2 Inches by kiddharma "Scientists say the moon grows 1 1/2 inches farther away each year. I'll fight this cosmic terrorism hand to hand." Harrison/Kooser Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry Last week the New York Times published…
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Michigan History: St. Joseph - Wedding Capital, U.S.A.

fountain in the woods by catzinahat Las Vegas boasts that it is America's "wedding capital." Yet, in the early years of the twentieth century, Michigan, especially the Lake Michigan town of St. Joseph, was the "wedding capital of the Midwest."…