
Old Time Base Ball at Mackinac Island
The Mackinac Island Vintage Baseball Club will host the Rochester Grangers for their fourth annual vintage baseball game on Saturday, July 21, 2007 The evening begins with a pre-game concert by Traverse City's Northwind Brass quintet followed…

Absolute Michigan Pool - 15,000 photos and growing
This morning, practically as I watched, the photodometer on the Absolute Michigan pool on Flickr rolled over to 15,000.
The photo from Detroit International River Days maybe wasn't as dramatic as some of the others Connie (One Foot Over…

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!

2007 Detroit Tiger All Stars
Maggs Sportin' the Shades by MichSt
Today's Detroit News reports that the Tigers have five players on the American League All-Star team: starters Magglio Ordonez, Pudge Rodriguez and Placido Polanco and reserves Justin Verlander and Carlos…

Photo Friday: Woo hoo! by Ed Roth
Ed says that this photo is from the official start of summer (well from last summer). From his photos, it's clear that Ed and his family have a great time at home and on vacation in Michigan.

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…

Van Buren County, Michigan
Moving up the Michigan shoreline from Berrien County, we come to Van Buren County. Read on for much more about Michigan's fruit basket!
History from Southwest Michigan Directory
Steamer on the Black River (LC-D4-42466)
Library of Congress…

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…

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…

Key provision of Michigan Environmental Protection Act under fire
Sometimes by Andy McFarlane
Well, this is a little weighty for a Friday, but in light of that fact that "environment" is a synonym for "the place we'll go to have fun this weekend" I think it's necessary.
In a case before the Michigan…

June 19, 2007: Baseball, birds, biking, Bad Axe ... and pensions
I have to say that as a web developer, I really admire the dynamic ways in which the web team at the Detroit News presents complex information. A great example of this is their interactive teacher pension costs presentation. It makes it point…

Monday June 18, 2007: Clueless in the Capitol?
In the spirit of Five Things You Need to Know About Michigan, we're going to try to post a more or less daily page that gives you a little idea of what's happening in the Michigan news, events, the weather and on Absolute Michigan. We welcome…
