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Michigan Musicians Dominate Great Lakes Songwriting Contest

Although they competed against songwriters from Minnesota to New York and Ontario, Michigan‚Äôs songwriters have swept over half of the 13 top awards in the 2006 Great Lakes Songwriting Contest. Jen Cass of Bay City has been awarded the…
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Photo Friday: Laughing Whitefish Falls

The latest featured photo from our Absolute Michigan group was taken 364 days ago by James Phelps. Be sure to also visit his JMP Photography web site! It's a photo of the Laughing Whitefish Falls, a state scenic site. You can get bare-bones…
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Michigan Named Top Digital State

Michigan State Capital Dome by eatingorange From the Digital Government Web Site: A recently released national survey ranks Michigan first in the nation in the use of information technology to transform and improve government. The Digital…
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5000th Photo Added to Absolute Michigan Photo Group!

The 235th member of the Absolute Michigan pool, Spike aka radiospike, added this photo of Comerica Park (and several others) to our group on the photo sharing site Flickr. All of us at Absolute Michigan would like to extend our heartfelt…
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Michigan Second Mortgages Increasing Faster than Home Values

Looking up by Geoffrey George also see Looking Up (set) The Detroit Free Press reports that census data shows that 556,000 Michigan homes (19% of all owner-occupied homes in the state - 2% over the national average) have some kind of…
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Recap of First Granholm/DeVos Debate

Well, Google seems to have fixated upon our "Granholm vs. DeVos: Michigan Governor Debate Schedule" as the page for debate info and a bunch of folks have left comments, so we decided to add our links to debate recap articles and blogs there! There's…
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Northern Michigan Wine Industry Booming!

The Traverse City Record-Eagle has a pair of excellent stories on the northern Michigan wine industry. The grape harvest is just under way in Leelanau & Old Mission vineyards and it looks to be a very good harvest. In addition to growing grapes,…
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Photo Friday: Making the Web

Making the Web, Photo by Lori Haskell Michigan has so much scenic and built beauty that it's sometimes hard to remember the small gems that can be found just outside (or on) your backdoor. From her photos, it's clear that Lori Haskell…
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Michigan Politicians Courting Young Voters ... for Good Reason

Politicians Turn to Web to Attract Young Voters from WLNS is a video report on a new trend in the 2006 Michigan elections: candidates turning to youth networking sites like Facebook to connect with young voters. Candidates with Facebook profiles…
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Great Lakes Bioneers Conferences (Traverse City & Detroit)

Bioneers is a growing movement of everyday people committed to preserving and supporting the future through kinship, interdependence, cooperation, reciprocity, and community. There is a national keynote that will be broadcast at both venues! Traverse…
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Michigan Music: Aliccia Berg Bollig of Slumber Party

OK, for the record, any article that leads with "Detroit singer/scientist" is automatically going to get linked to. Model D has an interesting feature in their A Night Out with ... series talking with the persistent leader of the rotating, all-girl…
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Michigan Walk of Fame Accepting Nominations

Rosa Parks Bus by G0DaThe Michigan Walk of Fame is accepting nominations for 2007 inductees to the Walk until November 1st. We'd also like to ask any of our readers in Lansing to snap a shot of the walk, a star on the walk or anything having…