The majority of Michigan’s road and bridge construction projects will be put on hold this Labor Day weekend due to the expected increase in road traffic. From September 1 at 3 p.m. until September 5 at 6 a.m. work will be suspended and lanes opened on 92 of the 155 active construction projects.
For a [...]

The Michigan State Police will be out in extra strength for the last holiday weekend of summer (where did summer go?). The drunk driving campaign, “You Drink & Drive. You Lose” will be run by combined efforts of the Michigan State Police and over 500 local law enforcement agencies.
Have a fun Labor Day weekend. [...]

Jim Dreyer might have fell far short of his 125+ mile swim goal, but right now as he recuperates in a hospital he is thankful for still being around. After 49 hours and 40 miles Jim got out of the water yesterday morning just before 11 a.m. His shoulder was in a lot [...]

I don’t mean to be on a kick lately of showing you videos of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes. I have just been stumbling upon some truly interesting and intriguing stuff. For instance, I was searching for some video of the Mackinac Bridge at Google Video and found this video of divers exploring [...]

The new web page that I wrote about the other day www.squidoo.com/bestofmichigan/ has been updated. I have added Facts and Trivia about Michigan in a bulleted list. I also added some news feeds from the Michigan.gov website so if you want to stay up to date on what is currently happening in Michigan [...]

Well, it has been said here before, but now it is official. Michigan’s state website, www.Michigan.gov, was voted as the nation’s best by the Center for Digital Government.
If you have never checked out Michigan’s state website, do yourself a favor and check it out. You will be amazed at the more than 200 [...]

I just checked out Jim Dreyer’s website for updates on his record swim across the Straits of Mackinac this morning. The most recent post was last night at 10:08 pm.
Here is an excerpt:
Jim has been fighting a very strong current all day in the middle of the Straits. He has completed 9.5 [...]

Michigan native, Jim Dreyer, is planning on setting a new record for distance in a continuous swim. Dreyer will be swimming the Straits of Mackinac where Lakes Huron and Michigan meet at least 31 consecutive times. If he does that he will have swam at least 125 miles beating the previous record of [...]

Wow! Who would have thought that the average gas price in Michigan would drop $.31 from the end of July to the end of August? Today, the average price of gas in Michigan is down to $2.768. At the end of July we were paying $3.079 on average at [...]

On August 27, 1856 Abraham Lincoln visited Kalamazoo, Michigan. He gave a speech at Bronson Park near downtown Kalamazoo for the presidential campaign of Gen. John C. Fremont. The occasion was Lincoln’s only visit to Michigan.
Celebrate all weekend long in Kalamazoo. Numerous events will take place (and have been happening during the [...]