Michigan has been blessed with just the right amount of rain for most areas where sweet corn is being grown. It looks to be a much better crop than last year’s which saw too much dry weather in most of Michigan to produce a good crop.
I’ve had a meal of Michigan sweet corn and [...]

I picked up a pound of Michigan Sweet Cherries today and it got me thinking about all of the yummy fruits and veggies that are grown here in Michigan.

We had a good three week season for our strawberry patch this year and no sooner did the strawberry crop wind down when the red raspberries started [...]

The past two years have seen much ado about, well, nothing so far in the case of the proposed $161 million theme park near Grayling. The next hurdle needing to be crossed is the proposed $5.2 million dollar sale of 1,700 acres of state-owned land.
It looks like the July 10 Michigan Natural Resources Commission [...]

State Senator Patty Birkholz has introduced a bill that will bring yard waste back into state landfills 13 years after yard waste was banned. She claims it will help create methane (quicker than current garbage residing in landfills) which can be harnessed for power.
Since we still see fit to import trash from Canada I [...]

15-year-old Jennifer Sharpe has a future in sales from the looks of her cookie selling success. She sold 17,328 boxes of cookies from a Dearborn street corner.

That’s a lot of Thin Mints and Samoas :).

Ever wonder where the money raised from cookie sales goes?

The revenue raised from cookie sales remains in the local area in which it was sold. Per GirlScouts.org -

This revenue is used to benefit girls, some of it directly by remaining in the Girl Scout troop/group treasury and some of it indirectly by subsidizing the cost of providing the Girl Scout program in the local area.

For more information about Girl Scout Cookies visit:
www.girlscoutcookies.org
Girl Scout Cookie History

The clock is ticking towards the first tipoff today at 12:20 when Xavier takes on Georgia. 32 games of college basketball await over the next two days. I’ll be cheering on Michigan State since my beloved Western Michigan Broncos lost in the MAC tournament and didn’t get the automatic bid to the Big [...]

I saw this posted over at boingboing.net today and I laughed so hard I nearly cried. Animal, the Swedish Chef, and Beaker sing (well, I guess you could call it that) Danny Boy. It’s two minutes of hilarity.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

I just read this article at the Detroit Free Press stating that Michigan is one of only 4 states to spend more on our prison system than higher education. For every $1 spent on higher education, Michigan spends $1.19 on its prison system. Contrast this with Minnesota (happy owner of the lowest ratio) [...]

Biggby Coffee (the coffee shop formerly known as Beaners) has a neat blog that I just found out about today via an email. The blog’s title is “Where is Bob?” with “Bob” referring to Biggby CEO and co-founder, Bob Fish. It’s basically a collection of Biggby Coffee news as well as stories about [...]

MichiganIsAmazing.com shuttered their virtual doors on January 31, 2008. While not one of my daily visits (I caught up with the site once a week or so) it was an interesting site that tried to get Michigan residents to use stories, photos, and comments to tell their version of why Michigan is amazing.
It’s too [...]