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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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Find A Healthier Michigan at Detroit’s Winter Blast!

by Shannon Paul February 11, 2012 Community

Are you going to Winter Blast? This year Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan banners at the festival feature fun tips about staying healthy and active during the cold winter months with QR codes that link to articles on A Healthier Michigan with some of our best tips from Angela Jenkins, Grace Derocha and Jodi [...]

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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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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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Kids: Win a School Assembly with Matthew Stafford by Telling us What YOU Would do to Make Michigan Healthier

Thumbnail image for Kids: Win a School Assembly with Matthew Stafford by Telling us What YOU Would do to Make Michigan Healthier by Shannon Paul January 24, 2012 Community

A Healthier Michigan and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan are looking for inspiration from kids in grades 4-8! We want to know what you would do to make Michigan healthier and we’re asking that you submit your ideas in a video here on our website for a chance to be our featured kids’ health [...]

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Blues Community Challenge Gives Lansing-Area Residents Great Opportunity to Get Fit

Thumbnail image for Blues Community Challenge Gives Lansing-Area Residents Great Opportunity to Get Fit by Jodi Davis January 23, 2012 Community

The Community Partners in Health 2012 Winter Warm-Up has begun after a kickoff ceremony on Saturday, Jan. 21 at the Lansing Mall. I’m excited to announce that The Blues’ Community Challenge, a contest between nine Lansing-area communities, is under way for the third consecutive year (the Winter Warm-Up is now in its ninth year) — and I [...]

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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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A Healthier Michigan Guide to Taking Advantage of Your Detroit Auto Show Visit

Thumbnail image for A Healthier Michigan Guide to Taking Advantage of Your Detroit Auto Show Visit by Sven Gustafson January 13, 2012 Community

The news media has had overwhelmingly positive things to say about this year’s North American International Auto Show in Detroit, which opens Saturday to the public. In addition to offering a fascinating glimpse at where automotive technology and design are headed, the show also offers a great reason to get out of the house during [...]

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