Woe is MI

Quoted: Michigan automakers ask for $25 billion handout: nothing. Financial institutions on the coasts ask for $700 billion handout: massive funding.

Quoted: Knight was also working at a local Denny’s restaurant along with his now partner Zack Burkum. Two weeks into the cabbie gig, Knight suggested an idea to Burkum one morning over a Grand Slam breakfast.

Founders has moved. Have to check it out sometime

Quoted: And what works for Founder's, it seems, works for the campaign to invigorate struggling neighborhood business hubs in downtown Grand Rapids. And with its latest move the brewery is looking to cement a reputation for giving old places new energy. Not to mention tasty suds.

Good news.

Quoted: There is a new sense among many Africans that it is up to them to rethink their continent and challenge the West to do the same...

Wouldn't it be nice?

Quoted: Will the streetcar make a comeback in Grand Rapids?

oldie but goodie.

Quoted: E-mail is a party to which English teachers have not been invited.
In part because of e-mail, millions are writing more frequently on the job. Many are making a hash of it.

Quoted: Their vision of incorporating social justice in a for-profit development company is pretty phenomenal,” says Mark Rumsey, executive director, East Hills Council of Neighbors.

I'm about a quarter of the way there with my delapidated volvo...

Quoted: Seventeen years and more than 1 million miles later, Gilbert donated his car to the Wisconsin Automotive Museum. The car survived eight deer collisions, including one that punched a hole in the radiator, before it was parked for safekeeping at the museum in Hartford.