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Your State, Your Michigan Government: The Courts

Words by Patrick T Power On our fourth and final stop on our tour through Michigan's Government, we visit Michigan's Court System. Whether it's the state's highest court - the Supreme Court - the Court of Appeals, or any of the various…
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Your State, Your Michigan Government: The State Senate

The Michigan State Senate is the other half of the Legislative Branch of Michigan's government. While the House has 110 districts, the Senate only has 38, each representing approximately 212,400 to 263,500 residents. State Senators serve 4…
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Lighthouses going dark in Michigan

Lighthouse in Michigan by Dean S In the late 1800s, the US boasted over 2000 lighthouses. That number dropped to 950 by 1995 and to just 600 today. Michigan has 116 lighthouses - more than any other state. The Detroit News has an excellent…
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Get to Know Your Michigan Government

Michigan's State Capitol by Apocaplops It's a new year and a new session of Michigan government that features new legislators and a change in the balance of power in Lansing. While one thing - our state's economic challenges - has not changed,…
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Electric news from Tesla Motors

Tesla Roadster by lucianotourn Grow Detroit has a post (What? Never heard of Tesla Motors? You will...) on Tesla Motors that piqued our interest in this company that has pledged to build a new manufacturing plant for their electric-powered…
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Michigan Automotive History: Ford Motor Company

Tin Lizzies (Library of Congress) Did you hear the story of the guy who built a bike, won a race, and used $28,000 to build one of the oldest and most successful automobile companies in the world? You should, especially when it's Michigan's…
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Iven Kinchloe, America's First Spaceman

Googling "first American in space" leads you to Alan Shepard's May 5, 1961, flight into space. But five years earlier, a Michigan native piloted a supersonic plane to a record height of 126,200 feet above the surface of the earth. As a result…
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Michigan Automotive History: Olds Motor Vehicle Company

In association with our coverage of the North American International Auto Show (aka Detroit Auto Show) and the upcoming Michigan International Auto Show in Grand Rapids, we will be posting a series of short features on Michigan's rich auto heritage.…
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The Michigan Environmental Trail - Our Land, Our History

Elizabeth Park Reflection by mandj98 If there's one thing that all Michiganians can be proud of, it's the beauty of our natural environment. Whether it's the Great Lakes shoreline, our sprawling forests and trails or the sand dunes, it…
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Digging out Detroit

Devastated Detroit by MOOSE Michigan Radio's Jack Lessenberry interviews University of Pennsylvania professor Tom Sugrue about Detroit's troubles. Sugrue wrote a study of the city 10 years ago called “The Origins of the Urban Crisis:…
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Photos, videos and accounts of President Gerald Ford's funeral

The above photo by Andy Dragt is a panoramic look at the massive line for the public viewing for President Gerald R. Ford at DeVos Place in Grand Rapids. Click for a larger look (whoops, have to be logged in to Flickr to see it) It is one…
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The internet and civic engagement

Fleetwood_Mohawk by aTanguay "I don't think the ethic of helping out and caring about your community has gone away,'' says , who participated in a series of meetings to examine civic engagement in America. I think the big thing is to enable…