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Weekend Hot Links: Fat Tire Bikes and Fast Trains

Thumbnail image for Weekend Hot Links: Fat Tire Bikes and Fast Trains by Sven Gustafson February 18, 2012 Business

Week of Feb. 12-18: Improve your health in 20 minutes; National Geographic joins the Detroit parade; fat tires for snowbound Michigan mountain bikers; Amtrak trains in Michigan get faster; and auto factory jobs return to Flint. Happy linking! Rise and Shine, Detroit (National Geographic Traveler) Grand Rapids, Michigan: The Furniture City (Midwest Guest) Does Detroit [...]

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Health-Food Vending Machines? Detroit Medical Center is Trying Them Out

by Sven Gustafson February 16, 2012 Business

From time to time, we like to feature businesses that are doing interesting things to promote health and wellness among employees. Our friends at the Detroit Medical Center have taken the step of bringing in vending machines (another topic near and dear to our hearts) that feature healthy, organic and natural food snacks. The two [...]

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Michigan Hospitals Partner to Combat Childhood Obesity

Thumbnail image for Michigan Hospitals Partner to Combat Childhood Obesity by Guest Blogger February 13, 2012 Business

This guest post is by Paige Hathaway, member relations representative at the Michigan Health & Hospital Association. Gov. Rick Snyder, during his second State of the State speech, announced Pure Michigan Fit, a collaborative pilot program between Gerber, health care providers, grocers and the state. Under the initiative, parents and caregivers will get the nutritional information [...]

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Weekend Hot Links: Romance and Redemption Edition

Thumbnail image for Weekend Hot Links: Romance and Redemption Edition by Sven Gustafson February 11, 2012 Business

Week of Feb. 5-11: If you seek some pleasant Valentine’s Day ideas, look around you; the amazing things that happen on a trail; a pickle packer and an idle auto plant; the ragged glory of the Detroit Boat Club; and the enduring mythology of DAY-TWAH. How a Lowell woman transformed her life hiking Appalachian Trail [...]

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Weekend Hot Links: Super Bowl Mania!!! Guide

Thumbnail image for Weekend Hot Links: Super Bowl Mania!!! Guide by Sven Gustafson February 4, 2012 Business

Blame her advancing age, motherhood, or what have you, but Madonna is suddenly opening up about her long-repressed love for Michigan — or at least for Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan (where she was briefly enrolled in the late 1970s). The Super Bowl XLVI halftime act and Bay City native spoke with the [...]

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Dan Gilbert Unveils First of His Planned ‘Webward Avenue’ Entrepreneurial Tech Hubs (Video)

Thumbnail image for Dan Gilbert Unveils First of His Planned ‘Webward Avenue’ Entrepreneurial Tech Hubs (Video) by Sven Gustafson January 31, 2012 Business

Detroit got its first peek at Dan Gilbert’s vision for the downtown “Webward Avenue” digital economy Monday when the Quicken Loans founder celebrated the grand opening of the M@dison building after a $12 million renovation. Gilbert also announced that Rock Venture Partners, the venture capital firm he runs with partners including former basketball star Earvin [...]

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Weekend Hot Links: The Mitten Turns 175

Thumbnail image for Weekend Hot Links: The Mitten Turns 175 by Sven Gustafson January 28, 2012 Business

Michigan this week marked its 175 year of statehood. Si Quaeris Peninsulam Amoenam Circumspice, everybody! (Party time!) So we’re devoting this week’s links post to a celebration of Great Lake State’s past, present and future, in all its multifaceted, conflicted, unbelievable, agonizing, wondrous glory. Because really, we love this place and all of its pleasant [...]

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Weekend Hot Links: Doctor’s Note Edition

Thumbnail image for Weekend Hot Links: Doctor’s Note Edition by Sven Gustafson January 21, 2012 Business

Week of Jan. 15-21: Counting the beans on Lansing’s inaugural marathon; the (illegible) writing on doctor’s notes; pastoral Detroit; tough times for winter tourism; and mid-winter and Michigan’s Finnish heritage. You say Heikinpäivä, I say Eyjafjallajökull. To the links we go! Seeing Doctor’s Notes Could Help Patients Change Ways (Shots) First local marathon could bring [...]

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Weekend Hot Links: South Detroit Edition

Thumbnail image for Weekend Hot Links: South Detroit Edition by Sven Gustafson January 14, 2012 Business

Week of Jan. 8-14: A dog-sledding startup (!) in the U.P.; new bus service perks in Grand Rapids; the real storyline from the auto show; a new way to buy local; and the mystery of an ’80s arena rock classic revealed! Don’t stop believin’ in links! How Detroit Stole the 2012 Detroit Auto Show (Motor [...]

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Detroit, Auto Show Getting More Positive Coverage From the Media

Thumbnail image for Detroit, Auto Show Getting More Positive Coverage From the Media by Sven Gustafson January 12, 2012 Business

Out of the 5,000 or so journalists who showed up from around the world to cover this year’s North American International Auto Show in Detroit, it figures that some of them will linger around town to look for other, non-automotive stories about the city. There are plenty of them. There has long been a ravenous [...]

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