Well, here's some good news!!!
Michigan had the 6th fastest-growing gross domestic product in the nation last year! Yes!
The state’s GDP rose 2.3 percent last year after growing by 4.9 percent in 2010 - so things are on the upswing for a change around here - the nation’s overall GDP growth was at 1.5 percent, so we are above the average! We still have a long way to go, but this is some very good news for a change!
Hmmmm. Wonder what this is about. Like you couldn't see the writing on the wall. It MIGHT be to announce Nick is signing a one year contract to stick around. But more than likely it has to do with Mr Lidstrom's 20 year playing career coming to an end.
The ship that runs between Ludington over to Wisconsin - The Badger could be in major trouble. It's one of the last coal fired ships on the lakes anywhere, and many people have become concerned about it's pollution and dumping mass amounts of coal into Lake Michigan - and has been since 1953.
Well here some good news. Looks like more Michigan campgrounds are coming "online". There is an unwritten rule in Michigan, that if you grow up here, you MUST go camping at some point, even if you from Metro Detroit, you still have to do it
Well, that's the question. Battle Creek has one - Mt Pleasant has one - Detroit has 3 - and get ready to add Lansing to the list of bigger cities that will have one... although the governor and attorney general are opposed to it. I don't understand it. Detroit already has 3 - why should Lansing be any different? For that matter, we have Gun lake 20 minutes away. So I say, why not Grand Rapids? Imagine a casino on the southside of downtown...
It's that time of year - Construction season in Michigan. Normally, we all expect it this time of year, but with the early Spring, the season has already gotten into full swing.
Have you been downtown on Fulton St. Between Monroe and Division? I have never seen so many orange barrels piled into one spot. At night you better know where you are going, otherwise get ready to mow 'em down.
Our little own Meijer is about to go over 200 stores, and expand into it's 6th State. Wisconsin is next up. Hard to believe that the little store that started in Greenville now finds itself in 6 states and over 200 stores. This is important, because let's remember, Meijer is headquartered here, and the Meijer family has given so much back to this community over the years. We should feel proud of out "little Meijer" stores... And even better - The Purple Cow is coming back!
Well here's some good news for Michigan, and our cities. Including Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo, Detroit and Lansing! Looks like in the next few years things are really going to pickup in our great state. Hopefully many who left will be able to come back who might have lots jobs or gotten downsized.
This is cool on two fronts! First off, my hometown of Petoskey is getting a Nike shoe named after it's famed state stone "The Petoskey Stone". It's all pioneered by a new downtown Skate store in the heart of the Grand Rapids
This is crazy, and it's even in our own back yard - Big Rapids.
This place is loaded simple ashtrays and fishing lures, a full-size replica of a lynching tree. But all are united by a common theme: They are steeped in racism so intense it makes you blush!
If you missed the news over the last few days, Michigan's own rocker Ted Nugent got himself, intended or not, in some hot water for making some comments about the president... It now appears as though Ted is going to have a little "BBQ" in his words and talk things out. Not sure if the secret service does BBQ's or not, but pass the ribs!
Ted Nugent, Michigan's "Mouth of the South" might be in heat with the fuzz. Uncle Ted starting yapping about President Obama, and now the Secret Service wants to talk to the bow-shooting rocker. Now, granted the Secret Service is taking it's lumps these days, they still are charged with protecting the life of the President. They take threats like "If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year. We need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November. Any questions?"
