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Michigan Introduces New, Awful Bill to Ban Community Broadband | DSLReports, ISP Information

Thu, 19 Oct 2017 20:11:22 +0000

Michigan is the latest state to try and pass a law supported by (and likely written by) incumbent ISPs that tries to prevent communities from building their own broadband networks

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MI News Wire - State to Hold First-Ever 'Code Michigan' Event

Tue, 23 Jul 2013 16:13:09 +0000

Code developers are invited to the state's first-ever Code Michigan event this October for an opportunity to build mobile applications and win cash prizes. The free "civic coding" event will also feature presentations from heavy-hitters in the technology industry.

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Land Technologies Lawn Care, LLC

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:59:56 +0000

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Land Technologies Lawn Care, LLC

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:59:56 +0000

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Lawmaker Barred After Vagina Comment

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 03:52:57 +0000

Michigan House Republicans prohibited state Rep. Lisa Brown (D) from speaking on the floor after she ended a speech against a bill restricting abortions by referencing her female anatomy, the Detroit News reports.

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Dumbest War Ever Erupts Over Which State Looks Most Like a Mitten

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:35:10 +0000

That image (above, left) has become the centerpiece of Travel Wisconsin's website and Facebook page. Michigan is (justifiably) pissed off, as they have long compared their state to a mitten, and feel Wisconsin is just flagrantly stealing their mitten-shaped-state shtick! A website called Awesome Mitten first noticed and tweeted their outrage to their followers, and an all-out social media war has ensued.

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Rabbi Jason Miller: I'm A Detroiter Too: A Response

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:56:07 +0000

I'm very happy that Barlow has fallen in love with Downtown Detroit and everything that it has to offer him -- from grocery stores no one in the suburbs think exist to the dry cleaners where he drops off his shirts. Whether Barlow realizes it or not, through his words he has brought the late Mayor Coleman A. Young back to life. Or at least the former mayor's sentiment. In his twenty years in office, Mayor Young successfully drew a sharp divide between the residents of the City of Detroit and the suburbanites. The race riots of the late 1960s forced middle class whites to flee the city, but it was Mayor Young who kept them away. The polarizing mayor made the Eight Mile border a dividing landmark between the races. I'm afraid Barlow isn't helping matters today.

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Toby Barlow: "Detroit," Meet Detroit

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:55:27 +0000

You may know this already, but the one thing I've learned since I moved here is that many, if not most, of the people who identify themselves as being from "Detroit" have really no idea what Detroit is like. That's because they really live in, say, Novi, Warren, even neighboring Redford, and haven't explored downtown in years. Holding onto mythologies perpetuated by a hysterical press over the past quarter century, they cling to the belief that there are no grocery stores in the city (we actually have 115) and still ask me where I get my dry cleaning done (for the last time, I get my dry cleaning done at the dry cleaners.) They've been to the Fox, to Comerica Park, and maybe waited in line at Slows, but they haven't been to MOCAD, Astro Coffee, D'Mongo's, Good Girls Go to Paris, Le Petit Zinc, Supino's Pizza or any of the other places that have popped up over the past half-decade.

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Detroit to Lay Off 9 Percent of Public Work Force - NYTimes.com

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 19:14:57 +0000

The jobs of 1,000 city employees in Detroit, or about 9 percent of that city’s public work force, will be eliminated early next year, Mayor Dave Bing announced on Friday, adding new, painful details to his plan to save the city from running out of money.

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memeorandum: Michigan City Removes Streetlights In Desperate Budget Cut (ThinkProgress)

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 05:26:53 +0000

ThinkProgress:Michigan City Removes Streetlights In Desperate Budget Cut — States and cities around the country have desperately slashed spending in the face of record budget deficits, including unpaving roads, shrinking schools, closing libraries, and even a failed attempt to decriminalize ...

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Senator Gretchen Whitmer Responds to Pro-Bullying Legislation - YouTube

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 03:37:24 +0000

Favorite: Senator Gretchen Whitmer Responds to Pro-Bullying Legislation, by MISenDems Senate Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer responded to Republicans gutting an anti-bullying bill by inserting language that specifically allows bullying to occur based on religious or moral reasons. This legisla...

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Michigan Man Ordered Not To Dress As Batman - Detroit Local News Story - WDIV Detroit

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 01:41:55 +0000

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Grand Rapids embraced both sides of the prohibition

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:19:18 +0000

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What Food Carts Say About Ann Arbor

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:16:02 +0000

Ann Arbor is not really the hippie wonderland some people think it is, but not for want of its citizens trying

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Friends save Romulus library, plan to reopen it once a week

Mon, 09 May 2011 06:45:00 +0000

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